"Tier Ones are eating whole peanuts," Ms. Quillen says mordantly.
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A current equivalent would be the mordantly humorous cinema of Aki Kaurismäki.
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"An actor's failing powers get you in the end," he said mordantly.
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It's how we hear her true voice, defiant, spirited, even mordantly funny.
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But Lavalle's observations about race remain, as ever, both stinging and mordantly funny.
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It's mournful and mordantly funny, absurdist but dedicated to the search for meaning.
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Here's a brutal Soviet-style building called (we are mordantly told) the "finger of culture"!
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Identification is encouraged but, thankfully, hardly necessary to enjoy his latest batch of mordantly gleeful ditties.
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It's a mordantly funny monologue about isolation and alienation that fuses personal reminiscences with critiques of capitalism.
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In fact, in each of these crisp, mordantly funny tales, someone around her dies, usually in spectacular fashion.
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Keret continues his streak of writing short stories that are mordantly funny and bizarre in his latest collection.
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This prescient and mordantly funny science-fiction anthology is smart enough to be just barely ahead of its time.
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His satires on the absurdities of dictatorship, particularly 'Carnival Scenes' and 'The Oak,' are universal, ferocious and mordantly witty.
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"As it stands, few experts believe NASA's plan for returning to the moon in 2024 is feasible," says Vox mordantly.
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Klam, the author of the short story collection "Sam the Cat," brings a mordantly funny touch to existentially tragic circumstances.
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It is mordantly funny and highly polished, but it makes antiwar classics like "Catch-22" and "Slaughterhouse-Five" seem happy-go-lucky.
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" Or as Ben Franklin said so mordantly of American patriots during the Revolution, "If we don't hang together, we'll all hang separately.
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She also was also mordantly admired for having no chemistry whatsoever with and possibly despising her 50 Shades co-star Jamie Dornan.
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She talks mordantly about "the power from 'Pulp,'" and reminds me that it's in the Library of Congress, part of the American narrative.
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WHEN a great power promises a smaller country a "win-win" deal, diplomats mordantly joke, that means the great power plans to win twice.
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I am less mordantly cheered by the idea that the sketches my husband and I create can be updated like resumes — a new project!
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"Pond" — which can be mordantly funny — is haunted by a feeling of semi-tragedy, a quality of loss that's hard to put one's finger on.
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After a stint in the Army, he mordantly dissected the anxieties of the liberal mind for The Voice, in a run that outlasted the Cold War.
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But the incredibly dry, mordantly witty series deserves a look, if only for the way it depicts an American empire in an endless decline it can't reverse.
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Bellaire and Del Rey have created a story that's frightening but also mordantly satisfying and, even with blood and heads being lopped off, its own kind of beautiful.
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" He called the book a work of "nonsensical history and execrable citizenship," which, he added mordantly, "should come with a warning: 'Caution — you are about to enter a no-facts zone.
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I've always struggled with that criticism, because I've always found the show, at the very least, mordantly funny, blessed with a darkly humorous streak that made its more despairing portions slide by.
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ISIS, as Chua mordantly observes, is in its own way a melting pot, bringing together young men and women from across Europe, Asia and the Americas to fight for a new ideology.
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Another mordantly funny moment: Mom receiving a call from one of the program directors calmly informing her that while her son has arrived safely, he has also been barred for life from American Airlines.
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The rotting food in the kitchen that the animals snack on is a vivid metaphor for human overconsumption, and the reason for the house's desolate state is both horror-movie grim and mordantly funny.
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At one point, Jacobson uses the word "sarcastic" to describe a speaker's tone, and he is often sarcastic, instead of, in Roth's American way, mordantly ironic; his tone can become tetchy and irritable as a result.
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Kindly and self-skewering, Lamott, now 64, has been doggedly chronicling the messy stuff of life — refracting her own complicated stories of addiction and loss — in mordantly comic and sharply observed memoirs and novels for over three decades.
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His story sparks the plot of Ahmed Saadawi's brilliant, rueful novel, which won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and has recently appeared in a crisp, moving, and mordantly humorous English translation from Jonathan Wright and Penguin Books.
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But although the show does marinate in grief, privilege, self-pity and escalating drug and alcohol consumption, it is also mordantly funny and unexpectedly heartbreaking, grounded by a tour de force performance by Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role.
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"With the last of my loved ones now long dead, I find funerals kind of fun," so begins Shah's mordantly funny debut novel about Ant, a man making his way back to the Midwest for a childhood friend's funeral.
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As directed by Lyndsey Turner in a mordantly funny revival at the Almeida Theater in London running through June 10, Mr. Crimp's study in storytelling — story making, really — courses with a prickly humor that proves crucial to the whole.
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Ryan Murphy, now a master of mixing the mordantly funny with the starkly serious, executive produces and occasionaly directs from legal journalist, author and Simpson courtroom journalist Jeffrey Toobin's detailed book, as developed by biopic czars Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.
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Her "convenings," which she held at the Guggenheim during her retrospective (mordantly named "Past Tense/Future Perfect") and more recently at the Park Avenue Armory, suggest that keeping the old model while simply swapping out the content isn't going to work.
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But no need to worry about this encounter: The young will draw only on the imaginative spirit of the Addamses and their creator, the artist Charles Addams (1912-88), whose mordantly funny cartoons graced The New Yorker for many years.
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Meanwhile, Neal Brennan's newest Netflix special, 3 Mics, wades into some very deep and personal history, and the New York Times describes Chris Gethard's recent solo show, Career Suicide, as "much more about [his] uncomfortable if often mordantly funny relationship to self-willed death" than his career.
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Yet one has the sense that he is honored less for his prose than for his extraordinary élan vital, which somehow persisted even to the day of his suicide, in 1980, when he lunched complacently with his publisher and only then went back to his apartment on the Rue du Bac to shoot himself, having first composed, quickly, a mordantly witty suicide note.
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And yet, writer-director Martin McDonagh's mordantly funny and, yes, impeccably acted story of an embittered mother (Frances McDormand, a SAG winner last night for best lead actress in a motion picture) who goes to any length in pursuit of justice for the rape and murder of her daughter, has in recent weeks collected some less-than-flattering chatter about what its critics say is the facile way it treats the issues raised in its narrative.
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Kirkus Reviews called it a "mordantly funny take on a modern predicament".Kirkus Reviews. “White Man’s Problems” "Kirkus Reviews" New York, 18 March 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
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Allegory of the virtues of King João VI In the course of his few years living in Brazil, John ordered the creation of a series of institutions, projects and services that brought the country immense economic, administrative, juridical, scientific, cultural, artistic and other benefits, although not all went successfully, and some were downright dysfunctional or unnecessary, as Hipólito José da Costa mordantly observed.Apud Lima, Oliveira. Chapter XVIII . In Portuguese.
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Previewing the touring David Shrigley: Lose Your Mind exhibition before it opened in Guadalajara, Mexico, BBC Arts said: "Best known for his crudely composed and mordantly humorous cartoons, David Shrigley is a highly popular British artist […] Featuring works as diverse as cartoonish ceramic boots, doodle-like drawings and a headless, stuffed ostrich, the exhibition highlights Shrigley's lively, irreverent imagination in full flow". In the same month, he contributed to the Liverpool Provocations event in Liverpool's city centre.
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There have been a number of selections from these volumes, including The Man of Slow Feeling, Book of the Reading and Great Climate, published in the US as Her Most Bizarre Sexual Experience. This was described as 'Erotic, fiercely intelligent and mordantly funny,' by Janette Turner Hospital. Jim Crace wrote 'His stories subvert and transcend not only sexual and social conventions... but story-telling itself.' And J. P. Donleavy commented: '21st century writing for 21st-century people.
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Devo (, originally ) is an American rock band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 1973. Their classic lineup consisted of two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with Alan Myers. The band had a No. 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", the song that gave the band mainstream popularity. Devo is known for their music and stage shows mingling kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor and mordantly satirical social commentary.
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In religion, he investigated Christianity, Islam and Hinduism before settling on a mordantly mocking atheism. In person, he was a slight, energetic figure with the scruffy mien of a perpetual undergraduate, a gentle man with a keen eye for absurdity. He was a lover of billiards, swimming, boating, climbing trees, the Manx countryside, twentieth century Russian classical music, curry, cigarettes and whisky. Among Drower's friends were the poets Roy McMillan, Vinty Kneale and Jane Holland and the great horologist George Daniels, whom he met through their shared enthusiasm for motorcycling.
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Totally distinctive and utterly brilliant" while the latter lengthily enthused, "There are reminders of Curve, in the scowling, abrasive guitars, trussed down with a rubbery, mordantly funky rhythm programme. This is severely internal music, right inside your head, pulsing like a migraine, with Manson crowing like a dominatrix as she presides over some impending psychological breakdown". Hot Press described "Subhuman" as "hypnotic drum loops combined with a guitar overload... an industrial noise-feat", adding that it was "a great single". Vox were equally positive, writing "trashing a bloated, ego-fuelled but nameless icon, "Subhuman" is one of [Garbage's] darkest songs to date.
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Sting wrote "50,000" the week of Prince's death, and in memory of several famous musicians who died in late 2015 and 2016: Prince, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, and Lemmy. "One Fine Day" is a plea for sanity regarding anthropogenic climate change. According to Rolling Stone magazine on 11 November 2016, Sting "offers a kind of travelogue through his own musical past, from the Chaucer-y balladry of 'Heading South on the Great North Road' to 'If You Can’t Love Me,' a mordantly Kafkaesque echo of the jazz rock Sting made in the Eighties." "Inshallah" is a Middle East-tinged refugee's prayer.
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Although the book is now normally known as a novel, the first edition was entitled Pastors and Masters: A Study. It was described on the cover as "like nothing but itself" and as "a little book which is a study rather than a story, but which has a story in it". It was in this novel that Compton-Burnett first introduced the characteristic style of clipped, precise dialogue that was to make her name. The book marked the start of what became a remarkable series of fierce but decorous novels dealing with tyranny and power struggles in secluded late-Victorian households, written almost entirely in mordantly witty dialogue.
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Three days after the attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese occupied the Gilbert Islands, and built a seaplane base on Makin that provided a token defense of Tarawa. They left a small number of Japanese Coastwatchers on Apamama, along with a few other atolls, to observe Allied forces in the South Pacific. It was after Carlson's Raiders that attacked Makin in August 1942 when the Japanese began to fortify and reinforce Tarawa, the largest and most strategically important atoll of the Gilberts. General Holland Smith mordantly blamed the Carlson raid for the rapid Japanese buildup and allegiantly felt, even after his retirement, that instead of subjecting heavy Marine casualties during the horrific and bloody seizure, Tarawa should have been avoided.
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Writing in 1977, Nicholas Schaffner said that, despite the "merciless stereotypes" presented in its lyrics, "Piggies" and Harrison's three other White Album compositions "firmly established him as a contender" beside the Beatles' principal songwriters, Lennon and McCartney. Four years later, Philip Norman described the song as "mordantly humorous". Among more recent Beatles biographers, Ian MacDonald views "Piggies" as a "bludgeoning satire on straight society", dismissing it as "dreadful" and "an embarrassing blot on [Harrison's] discography". According to author Doyle Greene, writing in his 2016 book on the 1960s counterculture, the Beatles and Manson are "permanently connected in pop-culture consciousness" as a result of Manson having founded his theory of race war on McCartney's "Helter Skelter", "Piggies" and other tracks from the 1968 double album.
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Watt's first memoir Patient - The True Story of a Rare Illness (Penguin, 1996) describes his life-changing ordeal with Churg-Strauss syndrome (Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis), a rare life-threatening auto-immune disease with which he was diagnosed and hospitalized in 1992, on the eve of a North American tour with Everything But The Girl. "An astonishingly assured anatomy of his ordeal, by turns terrifying, mordantly funny and intensely moving. Many people suffer the pain and indignities of intensive medical treatment; but few have written about it with quite such alarming vividness or clarity", wrote Mick Bown in The Daily Telegraph. The book was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Sunday Times Book of the Year chosen by William Boyd and a Village Voice Literary Supplement Favorite Book of the Year, and was also a finalist for the Esquire-Waterstones Best Non-Fiction Award in the UK. His second memoir, Romany and Tom—a portrait of his parents' lives and marriage—was published by Bloomsbury in February 2014.
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