How To Use Tragicomic In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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- What kind of tragicomic liar social climbs by pretending to be Irish?
Chris Kelly: My Daughter's on the No Fly List
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Don't make your mythical comic book blog become a dump of uncool tragicomic absurde sex jokes.
Fumetti Fun!
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His final years in hospital were tragicomic and heart-rending.
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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
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This was a tragicomic story of human frailty.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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It ends with an all-time tragicomic cliffhanger.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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An energetic cast, headed by the unsinkable Helen Mirren as deposed Milanese royalty Prospera (here given a change of gender), cavorts through a digitally enhanced version of the Bard's tragicomic tale of exile, shipwreck, old wounds and young love set on a remote island.
The Best of the Fest
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A beautifully crafted slice of tragicomic social history.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Incidental characters are blessed with tragicomic backstories.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Man Who '' is a kind of tragicomic variety show, in which dysfunction becomes both heartbreaking and hilarious.
A Tragicomic Variety Show
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Painting, Smoking, Eating, Philip GustonStedelijk Museum, AmsterdamIn this tragicomic painting, the American artist Philip Guston portrays himself as a caricatural cyclops stuck in bed with his sloth, his weak will and his ruinous appetites.
The 10 best ... New Year's resolution paintings
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Does this limit real-life opera to the tragicomic?
Times, Sunday Times
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Like them, he has a gift for tragicomic situations, eccentric characters and superb dialogue.
Times, Sunday Times
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We can speculate, however, that the story of Pericles 'separation from and eventual reunion with wife and daughter was just the kind of tragicomic dream to give Shakespeare the chance to express, in a play, the sorts of feelings that a man might have in rejoining his wife and daughter after so long a separation.
Shakespeare
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Reading the files of the Wasp network reveals a poignant tragicomic coda to the cold war.
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the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments
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We've traded our epic heroes for tragicomic ones who bear a stronger and stronger resemblance to ourselves.
Christianity Today
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We've traded our epic heroes for tragicomic ones who bear a stronger and stronger resemblance to ourselves.
Christianity Today
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I've been labelling myself as 'tragicomic pop'.
The Sun
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her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure
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What you do is squirt a packet of ketchup on your arm, have a seat and watch the tragicomic parade of gore and suffering roll past.
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a playwright specializing in tragicomic drama
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It's a tragicomic turn of equal parts emotional heft and vaudeville vitality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even if Nichols cheats a bit about a few details, he makes his main characters tragicomically true to life, racily human enough to wrest sympathy from the sourest souls.
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That last complaint is tragicomic given that Memphis schools typically rank among the nation's five worst with fewer than half of black males graduating from high school.
Tennessee's Chamber Maids
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tragicomic" is the best way to describe this beautiful novel about the long distance two people can live from one another, even if they are under the same roof.
Popnography
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Soon the entire situation spirals out of control into a tragicomic mess of blunders, language barriers, bureaucratic snafus, and spin control.
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Dazzling, rapid-fire prose and fast, dry dialogue lend tragicomic humour to these tales of individualists who nosedive inevitably into degeneracy, despair, desperation and disillusion.
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Their situation was full of the tragicomic bittersweetness that would make their sitcoms so loveable.
Times, Sunday Times
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We've traded our epic heroes for tragicomic ones who bear a stronger and stronger resemblance to ourselves.
Christianity Today
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There's a tragicomic irony here, if you've the appetite for it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think it's fair to say it's my first tragicomic theatre appearance.
Times, Sunday Times
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These tragicomic tales often invoke a Sarajevo that is physically absent but psychologically present and describe other psychic and geographic displacements.
2009 September 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews
