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How to use tragicomedy in a sentence

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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.
This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy, and indeed, into a farce, by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel.
Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy.
If the play were a comedy, or at least a tragicomedy, Edgar's victory over Edmund would have turned the tribulation to joy.
But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by.
This odd-couple tragicomedy is so well acted by both men, so utterly involving, and so real.
This debut may remind some readers of Lorrie Moore's dry and poignant tragicomedy.
And he aims to complete this picture with a tragicomedy dealing with the relationship between two fiery best friends.
This film could have been deadly earnest and full of moral fury, but the tone is the stuff of tragicomedy.
It is not coincidental that tragicomedy has surfaced as a subgenre in war literature.
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.
The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot.
She has crafted a consistently engaging tragicomedy of life in the big city.
The plays fall into the categories of history, tragedy, comedy and tragicomedy.
The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous.
The tragicomedy of U.S. politics is that we really do get the government we deserve.
There is a difference between the two films, of course, with Shouf Shouf Habibi being more of a tragicomedy with more dramatic elements.
Volare', tragicomedy and poetry to reflect on an underworld beyond the everyday, is coming to Palma's Teatre del Mar.
But seen against a deeper background they reveal also a feeling for tragicomedy, for the enigmatic and inscrutable.
A chaotic tragicomedy about the extinction of species caused by mankind and its own impending extinction.
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Examples from Classical Literature
For a time it is mainly confined to romantic comedy, but it soon enters into tragedy and tragicomedy.
Canada in the West has all races, and it was consistent of me to give a Chinaman of noble birth a part to play in the tragicomedy.
Hortensia leant forward, an eager spectator, watching the three actors in this tragicomedy.
The distinctions between tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and romantic comedy often become barely discernible.
All the participants in this tragicomedy are now going through the motions.
In tragedy it plays a fitful part, but in tragicomedy it conquers the theatres.
Women survive the tragicomedy only by dint of their great capacity for play-acting.
How far Byron was in earnest in this tragicomedy is more difficult to determine.
Measure for Measure is nevertheless among those Shakespeare plays to which the term tragicomedy is occasionally applied.
Sidney Lumet's abrasive time capsule tragicomedy is based on the bizarre true story of a bungled Brooklyn bank robbery.
The concealment, innocent as it seems, was the first step in the second tragicomedy of John's existence.
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