tragicomedy

IPA: trædʒɪkˈɑmʌdi

Examples of "tragicomedy" in Sentences

In 1661, in a vulgar "tragicomedy" entitled _The Presbyterian Lash_, we find:
But "The Diary of a Madman" is an ambiguous tragicomedy without a bottom line.
Despite the rather grim scenario, Stanescu's self-described "tragicomedy" has much more humor than despair.
Does Irving move his readers in both directions, toward the comedy and the tragedy as the term tragicomedy implies?
Marion Cotillard is set to lead Les Petits Mouchoirs, in what is described as Variety as a "tragicomedy", whatever the hell that is!
But as Burress prepares for his release, we might as well point out one last layer of ludicrousness: how much money this football tragicomedy has cost the state of New Jersey.
Starring Dunham and her real-life family, Tiny Furniture is tragicomedy about what does and does not happen when you graduate with no skills, no love life, and a lot of free time.
He also returned to the pastoral play in the _Serra da Estrella_, while his exquisite lyrism flowers afresh in the _Triunfo do Inverno_, a tragicomedy which is really a medley of farces.
The Pregnant Widow, described by its publisher as a tragicomedy, follows the lives of six young people spending a long, hot summer holiday in an Italian castle during the sexual revolution and the “sea change” of 1970.
It also discusses questions of genre and reception, rejecting such descriptions as 'tragicomedy' or 'romantic tragedy', and showing how later artists have responded to Euripides 'unorthodox heroine and her phantom double.