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mordant
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What touched me were the lonely spaces in the music and the Yiddishkeit and mordancy in the music, which was familiar to me.
Friedman's work has often had a sharp-edged humorous mordancy, which, however, is usually quite subtle.
In Europa, Europa, Holland made an unnerving comedy about survival within the hell of race hatred, and her instinct to render her subject with equal measures of lyricism, mordancy, and gallows humor fulfills itself in the boy's nightmare of Stalin and Hitler waltzing together amid the havoc their ideologies perpetrate.
 
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