31. As usual with Thompson, there are mood swings and there is mordant wit. 32. He showed his willingness to trade his mordant wit for the required political cliches. 33. Deng's mordant self-criticism had failed to appease the Red Guards. 34. There are also trademark flashes of mordant satire. 35. The show's mordant humor is appealing. 36. And it loses some of its cumulatively mordant atmosphere when pared down this way. 37. Mankind is resilient, Barzun believes, despite his mordant view of the present. 38. Almost every reviewer remarked on his mordant humor's heavy reliance on irony. 39. Residual iron mordant can damage or fade fabric, producing " dye rot ". 40. Chromium salts were until recently extensively used in dyeing wool with synthetic mordant dyes.
