41. The novels feature a mordant emotional timbre and a fatalistic approach to street situations. 42. Chrome or mordant dyes produced a muted but very fast color range for woollens. 43. Without mordant , a yellow colour is produced. 44. The great thing about this mordant is that it regenerates with exposure to oxygen. 45. Paul Rudnick's great comic gift is for irreverent, mordant , flighty humor. 46. HBO's mordant mock talk show. 47. George Packer's mordant look at life along the left bank of the Charles. 48. Serbs are a mordant race, and the war has produced both symbols and posters. 49. Some mordant or sardonic Serbs say they will do anything for Kosovo but live there. 50. In a recent interview with Mirabella, the irascible Lebowitz was at her mordant best.