| The Candidate Screenwriter Jeremy Lardner earned an Oscar for The Candidate, a mordantly funny dissection of big-time politics. |
| It says much about his talent as a writer that he makes these years of funk lively, engrossing and on occasion mordantly funny. |
| When the songs are at their wittiest, they are sharply and mordantly so. |
| Moody and mordantly funny on the air, McEnroe has a restless mind that seems never to stop turning. |
| It is all beautifully controlled and mordantly funny, but devoid of warmth a lot like the gilded, heartless people he is writing about. |
| Though certainly not designed for casual viewing, Gerry is too visually rich and mordantly witty to deserve the slagging it's received in some quarters. |
