tragicomedy

How To Use tragicomedy In A Sentence

• The plays fall into the categories of history, tragedy, comedy and tragicomedy.
• Again there is a comparison with Beckett and tragicomedy, where happiness and sadness are all the more vivid from being in relief to each other.
• Okay, so your life hasn't been made into a movie yet, but some days it has all of the makings of a studio tragicomedy.
• She has crafted a consistently engaging tragicomedy of life in the big city.
• If the play were a comedy, or at least a tragicomedy, Edgar's victory over Edmund would have turned the tribulation to joy.
• 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. Martin Amis: I can haz brake pleez, ladeez?
• But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by.
• I realize that that's not what the author chose to focus on, but my God, choosing to base an identity politics ( "tragi") comedy on a slaver is about as misguided as the warm-family-tragicomedy-in-Nazi-death-camp peesashit "Life is Beautiful" was. SeeLight:
• It's like a romantic comedy written by Beckett - a romantic tragicomedy - in which romance dies not in some passionate combustion, but fizzles out into uncomfortable, aseptic banality.
• Part fairy tale, part tragicomedy, it's sure to be a hit.