tragicomic

How To Use tragicomic In A Sentence

• But there were two bits of the commentary which really cracked me up (well one cracked me up and the other made me laugh in that kind of tragicomic-head-in-hands type way). Csíkszereda musings
• But for anti-whaling campaigners, this tragicomic greenwash is the least of a series of bitter ironies that look set to ring in a return to commercial whaling.
• - What kind of tragicomic liar social climbs by pretending to be Irish? Chris Kelly: My Daughter's on the No Fly List
• Don't make your mythical comic book blog become a dump of uncool tragicomic absurde sex jokes. Fumetti Fun!
• His final years in hospital were tragicomic and heart-rending.
• The incident was caught on CCTV – 16 minutes of tragicomic footage of Mrs Hemming, crawling around on her hands and knees outside the house, standing in the kitchen, then going off with the cat. Stealing a kitten is not the only cruelty here | Barbara Ellen
• This was a tragicomic story of human frailty. Times, Sunday Times
• While I can imagine that he might value his daughter's ridicule of the undignified and embarrassing aspects of his final illness as a farcical, tragicomic gag at his own expense, I believe that he would be "inexpressibly sad," a phrase he used, for the world to learn that he died unliked and unloved by one of his own children. A Roaring Literary Lion
• It ends with an all-time tragicomic cliffhanger. Times, Sunday Times
• In the liner notes I mention Cornel West, who sort of re-purposed the term "tragicomic" to describe the sensibility born of African Americans 'encounter with the absurd, specifically the extreme cruelties visited upon them in the first centuries of American life. RVABlogs