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The steady-paced, often mordantly funny “Pick a Color” explores the immigrant experience, the long tail of trauma, the indignities suffered by low-wage workers and their companion emotions: loneliness, loss and grief.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Sinclair returned home to Pasadena to write his campaign memoir, which he mordantly entitled “I, Candidate for Governor — And How I Got Licked.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025

Buñuel, a master of surreal imagery who aimed his mordantly irreverent plots at bourgeois values, mostly worked in exile.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

He is also a husband, a father, a dreamer, an adventurer and a dryly sardonic observer of history, with a mordantly funny perspective on Mexico’s past, present and future.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022

The ocean looked dead too, dead gray waves hissing mordantly along the beach, which was gray and dead-looking itself.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles