Her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Compared to the farcical Polish "Duce" and his tragicomical blackshort minions, however, Szálasi's followers were far more fearsome. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
The personalities Preston touches upon range from the flashy prosecutor Pier Luigi Vigna to the devastated mother of one of the victims to the tragicomical chain of suspects. From Wordnik.com. [The Journalist and the Murderer] Reference
Mr. Monicelli's 1959 movie "The Great War" tells the tragicomical story of two young Italians - played by Gassman and Alberto Sordi - who try to avoid going to the front during World War I. From Wordnik.com. [Mario Monicelli, Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter, dies at 95] Reference
Everyone has his own agenda: some defend their own views come what may, others defend their own ideological relativism come what may - sometimes they unite and the result is both tragicomical and dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [More Pomo commentary on ID - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
His first dramas are lighter and more playful than the later ones - pranks, ironical and satirical scenes, pictures of everyday life with telling and witty dialogue, often with a tragicomical or grotesque sense of life as keynote. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1986 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Billboards touting the film are a tragicomical tableau of the state of the state: the grinning narco in his cowboy hat and white suit standing alongside a fictional version of the real-life "El Pozolero," the infamous Stewmaker, who disposed of corpses in a 50-gallon drum of lye. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Mexico: In no mood for a fiesta] Reference
However, by skillfully exploiting this method, Kafka manages to lead us from poker-faced protocol to subjective angst, forming a bond between tragicomical protagonists and desperately smirking readers—only to alienate the characters even more, since the bond is unilateral: the persona can never leave the imaginary world and can therefore never link up with the real author and the real reader. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories] Reference
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Dame Zudár laughed scornfully at this tragicomical scene. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Wrath] Reference
It is an exhilarating, tragicomical story told entirely through dance. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference
Earsucker posted 3 hours ago from tragicomical. pnn.com taylorblue posted 39 hours ago from tengossip. com. From Wordnik.com. [ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference
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As long as he's the pop-culture creature known as A-Rod -- the nation's most polarizing athlete and a New York-based, tragicomical magnet for controversy in the Internet age -- he'll have to deal with matters that few others will endure in the history of sports. From Wordnik.com. [FanHouse] Reference
In Kipling the British Army has found a minstrel to interpret in a new, original, and tragicomical manner the toils and deprivations through which it has to pass, and to depict its life and work with abundant acknowledgment of the great qualities it displays, but without the least trace of meretricious embellishment. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The same motley, odd, tragicomical set. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
J In a tragicomical manner. From Wordnik.com. [A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ...] Reference
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