Yet they are also mordantly funny sendups of bourgeois manners.

Mordantly funny, frighteningly Orwellian and very much a product of the times, their work challenges the image merchants.

Brilliantly written and mordantly funny, it is a book that continues to make waves.

It is also mordantly funny and, in its way, as loud an anti-battle cry as Catch-22.

Mr. Nicholson is mordantly funny as he gargles in the morning, making subtle wolf sounds.

Her doctrinally strict, mordantly funny stories and novels are as close to perfect as writing gets.

A mordantly funny chronicle of the author's childhood in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran.

"Repentance" would seem mordantly funny if its wit, like that of its central character, weren't also so cruel.

The Village Voice review called it a "quickly paced, finely observed, and often mordantly funny read."

Because of the movie's wonderful shamelessness, its mordantly funny chills and fights are huge turn-ons.