How To Use Mordant In A Sentence

I love the way Sarajevans express themselves; it's a kind of world-weary, mordant wit overlying an amazing ability to absorb and survive great suffering. A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book
Compared with the action of this destructive solvent, that of all other disintegrating agencies concerned in our decivilization is as the languorous indiligence of rosewater to the mordant fury of nitric acid. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
But "Le corbeau" still was a touchstone for the young François Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol has drawn on Clouzot's mordant critiques of bourgeois society. A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery
Following on the mordanting operations comes the dyeing, which is carried out in the following manner. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
What's most distinctive about this mordant comedy of manners is the resolutely awkward cinematography. Times, Sunday Times

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There are many - too many - first-person accounts of illness but because she doesn't seek to entertain us we are spared the improbable levity and mordant wit that have become standard.
His dialogue is sharp and witty, laced with mordant humour. Times, Sunday Times
Yet who could resist her mordant wit? Times, Sunday Times
Stanley Kauffmann in his review of Stephen Becker's Marshall Field III calls in question the author's "expertise in the arts" by citing a statement of Mr. Becker on Field's interest in music: "He may not have known a mordant from a pralltriller. Letters
But chemical moments mordants such as alen alum are popular today.
His dialogue is sharp and witty, laced with mordant humour. Times, Sunday Times
The yarn would usually be mordanted with oxalic acid from wood sorrel, iron, or even an alkaline solution made from stale urine.
Wearden's text gives good, clear explanations and descriptions of the various weaving techniques, not just pile but also flat woven, and discusses dyes, mordants and related matters.
All shades of brown may be obtained by decreasing or increasing the amount of cutch or by adding a little logwood or fustic, in which latter case the cotton should have been previously mordanted. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
A few years ago I recommended carefully conducted dyeing trials on woolen cloth mordanted with bichromate of potash as the best and simplest mode adapted to such cases, and my subsequent experience enables me to confirm that observation to the fullest extent. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
(_Rhus coriaria_), native of the South of Europe, but which is also grown in Syria and Palestine, for its powerful astringent properties, which renders it valuable for tanning light-colored leather, and it imparts a beautiful bright yellow dye to cottons, which is rendered permanent by proper mordants. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
The original process may be summed up under the following heads: Printing or padding with an aluminous mordant, which is fixed and cleaned in the usual manner; dyeing in alizarin for reds with addition of calcium acetate; padding in sulpholeic acid and drying; steaming and soaping. Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
A mordant helps fix the dye to the material.
fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
But chemical mordants such as alum are popular today.
Its alcoholic solution dyes silk green, and also woollen and cotton when mordanted with albumen. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
A solution a mordant is used in the dying dyeing process.
The play's mordant comedy makes for compelling viewing.
Ultimately the story is told in alternating first - and third-person chapters, giving us a side-angle on Harry's mordant understanding of events. Death in L.A.; Southern Suspicion; Spenser Gets Artistic
(* Mordant chortle*) I'd LOVE to hear her delineate in granular detail the protectionist measures she thinks might be necessary. Your Right Hand Thief
Shot through with mordant wit, they make you nostalgic for the days before e-mail. Times, Sunday Times
If the "perpetual feast of nectared sweets" that the "Telemachus" affords, is felt at times to be almost cloying, it is not, as our readers have now seen, for want of occasional contrasts of a bitterness sufficiently mordant and drastic. Classic French Course in English
I sent emails and hundreds of texts, trying to explain to our friends what was happening, masking my fear with mordant humour. Times, Sunday Times
Though they total no more than about 35,000 words, his 12 mordant tales are little aerial masterpieces about social change, aging and divorce.
The bright yellow Lichen, growing on rocks and walls, and old roofs, dyes a fine plum colour, if the wool is mordanted first with Bichromate of Potash. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
Other dye-stuffs, such as fustic, Persian berries and Alizarine yellow, are best dyed on a basic chrome mordant, which is effected when tartar or oxalic acid is the assistant mordant used, or when some other form of chrome compound than bichrome is employed. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
You can hear the family influence: her brother's propensity for melodrama, mom's acute eye for telling lyrical detail, dad's mordant black humour, along with her own caustic imagery.
Typical of fine Indian chintz, the cotton is not printed, but mordant-painted and resistdyed.
[25] Alum in this case is called a mordant, which is a substance that will impregnate the cloth with something which will hold the coloring matter. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
You argue that he had dished the opposition, outmanoeuvred them, tactically closed them down and as a result, couldn't help allowing himself a mordant little smile.
The mordant still had to penetrate the fiber — a good printed fabric, like any good dyed fabric, was colored as evenly on the reverse as on the face — but had to remain unaffected by capillary action. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
A modent mordant helps fix the diy dye to the materiamaterial.
He seems to have retained his mordant humour and pleasure-loving streak in spite of everything.
This is music of longing, menace, and rue, often spiced with mordant or grisly humor.
The India-rubber is made into balls for a game resembling "fives," and calumba-root is said to be used as a mordant for certain colours, but not as a dye itself. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864
Logwood, also, if mordanted with alum, gives a mauve colour; if mordanted with chrome, it gives a blue. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
I sent emails and hundreds of texts, trying to explain to our friends what was happening, masking my fear with mordant humour. Times, Sunday Times
A modern t help mordant helps fix the dye to the material.
Chance, luck, mobility and enterprise characterise the larger narrative as well as the individual stories in this inimitable bricolage of reflection, jokes and mordant ironies.
At the top of the shore lichens or crotal grow on the rocks, and various species were boiled up with whole fleeces, water and the mordant human urine to give some of the unique hues associated with Harris Tweed.
Spare, morose, introspective, mordant baritone balladry has no part to play here. Times, Sunday Times
There may be added to the aluminous mordant a little salt of tin to raise the tone. Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
They were also more convenient to use because no mordant was required to set the color on wool or silk, although a mordant was still required when dyeing cotton.
Another key aspect of textile coloration often attributed to Dufay was the description of mordant action, a term and concept that was already common in vitreous color production. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
He was good company, with a mordant sense of humour and a strong sense of duty. Times, Sunday Times
A solution called a mordant is used in the dying proccessdyeing process.
Tissues are stained in aqueous hematoxylin after mordanting in iron ammonium sulfate (iron alum).
The India-rubber is made into balls for a game resembling “fives,” and calumba — root is said to be used as a mordant for certain colours, but not as a dye itself. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
There is an amount of mordant humour surrounding the shocking murders.
What's most distinctive about this mordant comedy of manners is the resolutely awkward cinematography. Times, Sunday Times
It is this mordant wit that I suspect has made him so successful. Times, Sunday Times
The enemy had not reckoned on the resilience of young Americans, whose grit, loyalty, and mordant humor saw them through the worst.
-- Mordant by boiling with 4 lb. alum and 1 lb. argol, then dye with 6 lb. logwood, 6 oz. cudbear and 3 oz. indigo extract. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
Delille, with his translation in verse of the _Georgics_ of Virgil, commenced a noble poetic career which he pursued until the nineteenth century; Gilbert wrote some mordant satires which recalled Boileau, and some farewells to life which are among the best lyrics; Saint Initiation into Literature
Mr Ford can no longer work and makes mordant jokes about his desire for a mobility scooter and sheltered housing. Times, Sunday Times
This became, after subsequent experiment, a tin chloride mordant for the coloring material cochineal. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
A mordant is a substance which has an affinity for, or which can penetrate, the fiber to be colored, and which possesses the power of combining with the dyestuff and thus forming an insoluble compound upon the fiber. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
Alum has also been long used as a mordant in dyeing.
Tense, haunted and melancholy, the composer's dark vision was only relieved by a mordant strain of humour.
Mr. Thomson had further alluded to the color obtained with logwood or logwood extract and wool mordanted with bichromate of potash, and seemed to be under the impression that the color thus obtained was not black, but blue. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
But Ms. Hustvedt rarely belabors the theme—this brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis: "My own head was a storehouse of multiloquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley. What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men
Some few, however, are important, such as woad, weld, heather, walnut, alder, oak, some lichens; and many of the less important ones would produce valuable colours if experiments were made with the right mordants. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
Shot through with mordant wit, they make you nostalgic for the days before e-mail. Times, Sunday Times
The original process may be summed up under the following heads: Printing or padding with an aluminous mordant, which is fixed and cleaned in the usual manner; dyeing in alizarin for reds with addition of calcium acetate; padding in sulpholeic acid and drying; steaming and soaping. Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
But chemical mordents mordants such as allon alum are popular today.
Goods, mordanted with alumina and dyed with alizarin for reds up to saturation, never reach the brown tone given by fleur or garancin. Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
It is this mordant wit that I suspect has made him so successful. Times, Sunday Times
I sent emails and hundreds of texts, trying to explain to our friends what was happening, masking my fear with mordant humour. Times, Sunday Times
Tense, haunted and melancholy, the composer's dark vision was only relieved by a mordant strain of humour.
Singh's work is capable of negative discovery, and it can have a mordant mood, but it remains undismayed.
It forms brown crystals which are readily soluble in hot water, and it dyes mordanted cotton a dark brown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
The ironies so mordantly delivered by Michael Hordern, in the film's elegantly phrased voice-over, counterpointed the beauty of Stanley's immaculate staging. How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
Yet it's hard not to recall the mordant words of Le Corbusier when he was designing his vast and ultimately doomed Plan Obus for the urban transformation of Algiers. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
The book, by being both depressing and exhilarating gave mordant insight into the Edinburgh housing projects where the writer grew up.
He was good company, with a mordant sense of humour and a strong sense of duty. Times, Sunday Times
His dialogue is sharp and witty, laced with mordant humour. Times, Sunday Times
In this technique, color fixatives called mordants were hand painted on the surface prior to dyeing with chay, which was derived from the root of an East Indian herb.
A modent mordant helps fix the dye to the material.
-- Mordant the wool by boiling one and a half to two hours in a bath made with 5 lb. copperas, 2 lb. bluestone, 2 lb. alum, and 10 lb. argol. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
Most of these extracts contain the coloring matter in two states, the developed and the undeveloped, and an oxidizing mordant such as bichromate of potash causes the latter as well as the former to enter completely into combination with a metallic base; whereas many of the other mordants, such as alumina or tin compounds, merely take up the developed portion of the coloring matter together with such small and variable proportions of the undeveloped as might undergo oxidation during the process of dyeing. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
The first dye is crystal violet, which is fixed or mordanted in Gram positive bacteria by iodine.
The play's mordant comedy makes for compelling viewing.
Mordants most commonly used in tissue staining are salts of aluminum, chromium, iron, potassium, and tungsten.
Obviously, without the interruption and relief of the contrasting arpeggio, the accompaniment could never have kept its mordant vitality fresh.
Another plan which has been followed is to give the wool a bottom with 5 to 6 lb. of camwood or peachwood, then mordanting and dyeing us usual. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
What's most distinctive about this mordant comedy of manners is the resolutely awkward cinematography. Times, Sunday Times
A solution called a mordant is used in the dying process.
He showed his willingness to trade his mordant wit for the required political cliches.
In using that expression (or the word mordant in connection with the troops) she made a gesture of kneading with her hand, putting her head on one side and half-closing her eyes like an art-student. Time Regained
But Ms. Hustvedt rarely belabors the theme—this brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis: "My own head was a storehouse of multiloquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley. What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men
_ Iron is usually employed as a "saddening" agent, i.e. the cotton after dyeing is steeped in a cold solution of the mordant. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
If necessary to retard the dyeing from the commencement, then an assistant mordant is added to the dye-bath, in the shape of soda crystals or phosphate of soda for the benzidine (p. 081) colours on cotton; bisulphate of soda or Glauber's salt in dyeing with azo colours or acid colours on wool; or tartar may be used in most cases with good effect, causing the wool to have a softer feel. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
He remained committed to exploring his penchant for mordant wit, the celebration of the esoteric, the glorification of all things absurd.
The yellow color of glycogen is difficult to explain, but it may be due to unmordanted hematein.
This is carried out by boiling the wool in a solution of the metal, such as bichromate of potash, chrome alum or chrome fluoride when chrome is to be used as a mordant, with alum or sulphate of alumina when alumina is required to be deposited on the fibre, and with copperas when iron is to be the mordant. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
To mordanted calico the shades imparted were dull and heavy, but very solid. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
There are flashes of her old, mordant wit, but with very few exceptions, little of the lives or personalities of her protagonists is given room to come alive and breathe.
A solution called a mordant is used the dying process.
The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous.
This mordant reacts with the dye alizarin to form a red lake, exactly as it does in a test tube in the typical analytical test for aluminum.
Gold leaf is too delicate to be laid directly on the relatively rough surface of plaster and so the gold leaf is backed with thicker and more robust tin foil using an oil mordant as the adhesive.
A mordant helps fit fix the dye to the material.
Chemical moderns But chemical mordants such as alam alum are popular today.
Unlike those cynics whose mordant view of human nature seeps into and darkens their personality, he visibly brightened as he related episodes of human cupidity and self-inflicted prisoners' dilemmas.
The methods of employing the much more important group of colouring matters known as the mordant dyes, which comprise such well-known products as logwood, fustic and alizarine, require more attention. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
For example: -- Cochineal, if mordanted with alum, will give a crimson colour; with iron, purple; with tin, scarlet; and with chrome or copper, purple. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
Although somewhat bleak, it is a graceful affair, lovingly crafted, deeply felt, and spiked with mordant cleverness.
As a writer who is constantly described as a purveyor of mordant wit and dark humour in subjects such as death and alcoholism, you could say that stand-up was the natural stepping stone in communicating her thoughts.
Both directors' films are shot through with a mordant humour which echoes the essential Dublin.
The usual methods of applying all the other dye-woods, to obtain scarlets to reds with Brazil wood, Lima wood, peach wood; or yellows with fustic, quercitron or Persian berries, is to first prepare the cotton with sumac, then mordant with alumina acetate or tin crystals The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
He was good company, with a mordant sense of humour and a strong sense of duty. Times, Sunday Times
The saddening may be and is commonly done in the same bath, that is, after the wool has been stuffed it is lifted, the mordant -- copperas, bluestone, bichrome, or alum -- is added, and the wool is re-entered into the bath. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
In some cases the methods of mordanting, dyeing and saddening are combined together in the dyeing of wool, thus, for instance, a brown can be dyed by first mordanting with bichrome, then dyeing with camwood and saddening in the same bath with copperas. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
Other dye-stuffs, such as fustic, Persian berries and Alizarine yellow, are best dyed on a basic chrome mordant, which is effected when tartar or oxalic acid is the assistant mordant used, or when some other form of chrome compound than bichrome is employed. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
Rather than being just a study in Scottish miserabilism Burnside's new book is a chilling display case of grotesques, shot through with a bleak and mordant humour.
Wool mordanted with 4 per cent of ferrous sulphate and 10 per cent tartar and dyed in a separate bath with weld with 8 per cent chalk, takes a good olive yellow. 8 per cent of alum is often used for mordant for weld. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
Yet who could resist her mordant wit? Times, Sunday Times
The application by hand of various mordants was part of a complex process of dyeing, applying and clearing resists, washing, and bleaching.
In the case of Cornelis Drebbel, who invented a bright red dye color by mixing cochineal with a tin mordant, we cannot prove that the inspiration for the invention was directly related to this production method for gold purples, but, even if the connection is only circumstantial, it is a circumstance we cannot completely ignore. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
A solution a mordant is used in the dying process.
Aron had become rather mordant, and she thought it essential that he gain some cheer before the long walk home.
With remarkable economy, he condenses these depressing proceedings into a short, mordant drama about the ruthless crushing of a brilliant spirit.
In other words, the diazotized primuline acts as a mordant only when not altered by the luminous action. Photographic Reproduction Processes
Lastly, aluminate of soda may be used as a mordant in place of red liquor or sulphate of alumina. Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
When we examine the silk patterns, we find, generally speaking, a similar degree of fastness among the various natural dyes, as with wool; in some instances the colors appear even faster, notice, for example, the catechu brown and the colors given by brazilwood and its allies, with iron mordant. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
It has the magic property of always being cooler than the surrounding atmosphere, which gives it a sense of mordant gravitas and wisdom.
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.
Tissues are stained in aqueous hematoxylin after mordanting in iron ammonium sulfate (iron alum).
Still, the film is worth watching for its mordant humour and brutally honest view of addiction.
Both wolfram and scheelite are of considerable importance as a source of tungstic acid for the manufacture of sodium tungstate, which is used as a mordant and for some other purposes, and as a source of metallic tungsten, which is used in steel-making. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
His songs are frequently grim, a catalogue of human misery shot through with mordant humour and flashes of spiritual or psychological calm.
Although there are now what are called "direct" cotton colors, the usual process is to first treat the cotton goods with a "mordant" -- various salts of aluminum, chromium, iron, tin and copper, fixing these on the fiber by means of tannin or alkali. Textiles and Clothing
In order to get the color to stick well on the fiber, the wool was usually pretreated with a metal compound called a mordant; common mordants, still used in craft dying, are compounds of aluminum, iron, copper, tin, and chromium.
CAMWOOD (_Baphia nitida_) is used as a mordant and for producing the bright red color seen in English bandana handkerchiefs. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
Have you actually got round the obstacle of using heavy metal mordants to actually make the dye set?
The first opera was written when the composer was twenty-five, and it has all the glinting lightness and mordant irreverence that his early works display.
Other dye-stuffs, such as fustic, Persian berries and Alizarine yellow, are best dyed on a basic chrome mordant, which is effected when tartar or oxalic acid is the assistant mordant used, or when some other form of chrome compound than bichrome is employed. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
His pessimism about human nature and emphasis on mordant criticism of failings among the clergy, however, were not typical of all humanists.
It is this mordant wit that I suspect has made him so successful. Times, Sunday Times
But the play's compassion and mordant comedy make for compelling viewing.
The technique, attributed to Cornelis Drebbel, used a tin mordant to brighten the color produced by cochineal. 11 The discovery, as reported in the eighteenth century, was a fortuitous accident similar to that of Prussian blue; fortunate in that the discovery happened to someone able to recognize and exploit it. reference Drebbel, it was said, accidentally broke a container of tin-infused aqua regia over a container of the cochineal extract used in making thermometers. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
She is brilliantly but mordantly characterised by her bookish son.
A moden mordant helps mix fix the dye to the material.
Eighteenth-century manuals of practice often classify woad and indigo among direct dyes because they require no mordant or assistants, but their chemistry demanded a dyeing process different from typical direct methods. 8 reference Modern descriptions classify them as leuco dyes, in which the normally insoluble and nonadherent coloring material is made soluble by the removal of oxygen, a reduction process. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Yet who could resist her mordant wit? Times, Sunday Times
Shot through with mordant wit, they make you nostalgic for the days before e-mail. Times, Sunday Times
Before this point's reached, however, we see Medea's conflicting impulses in a performance of bravura strength and delicacy, yet darkly lit with moments of mordant humour.

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