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Instead, war broke out across Europe, and Asquith made his mordant headache joke on the way to the historical dumpster.

Yes, there's been some mordant chuckling in the media over his bizarre comments about "the late great Hannibal Lecter" and his meandering tales about electric boats and shark attacks.

Based on a Flemish series called “Clan” and developed by Horgan, the Dublin-set drama put a distinctly Irish spin on the successful formula of “Big Little Lies,” deftly balancing mordant humor with genuine suspense and convincingly tangled sibling relationships.

His gimlet-eyed observations and mordant humor announced the arrival of a playwright with something to say and the fiery eloquence with which to say it.

The members seemed to take that as an official offer, as opposed to a mordant joke.