tragicomic
IPA: trædʒɪkˈɑmɪk
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy; having both tragic and comic aspects.
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Examples of "tragicomic" in Sentences
- His work has been described as baroque and tragicomic.
- Human deficiencies are described in a tragicomical way.
- I think you need some rest as your edits becoming tragicomic.
- His role is a tragicomic hotelier and first mayor of Deadwood.
- I just researched that one crazy tragicomic weird balloon thing.
- - What kind of tragicomic liar social climbs by pretending to be Irish?
- In 1918, as a prisoner of war, there he was again, the tragicomic scribbler.
- His scripts feature black comedy and often end with a dark tragicomic twist.
- "" The Man Who '' is a kind of tragicomic variety show, in which dysfunction becomes both heartbreaking and hilarious.
- These tragicomic tales often invoke a Sarajevo that is physically absent but psychologically present and describe other psychic and geographic displacements.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.