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Usage examples of tragicomic.

If Harold Pinter speaks of his plays as being meant to be funny up to that point where they cease to be funny, he was formulating a perception of the tragicomic that directly derives from Chekhov.

It also derives its poetic force from the ironic juxtaposition of ambivalent and contradictory signs to produce an ultimately tragicomic world view.

Her huge legs bore her huge body, a tragicomic spectacle, across the street to her open door.

LaLeche had just missed the tragicomic altercation that had started in the kitchen and ended up in the sitting room.

Olivia but keeping her hands on her shoulders while she looked with tragicomic intensity into her face.

They would people her hive with beauty and splendor, brighten it with all the ferocious passion she once had felt, but that first forager would live forever in a comic epic of its own, a hilarious saga she would be singing to delight its future siblings, even after the certain tragicomic climax, when one of them would surely snap it up.

Sublimely arrogant, trapping her little innocent in that idiotic web, they had given it eternal fire as the tragicomic hero of the founding of her hive.

The Three Griefs of Lord Augustus, composed in the rough tragicomic style of the camp, which was sung many years later by the regiments stationed in Germany.

Frank pulled what he hoped was a tragicomic face, recollecting too late that if the camera was equipped with a fish-eye lens this might well distort his expression into a horrid leer.

He staggered back, clutching his heart in a tragicomic burlesque of a wounded man, then dropped to his knees and inched up to the side of her chair.

This view of people as animals pretending to be human shows up as often in the bleak hard-boiled detective novels of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald as in the tragicomic Irish novels of James Joyce.

Would she treat the Pharc inmates to the tragicomic spectacle of a mare trying to charge up those stairs in a desperate effort at rescue?

As the plot moves toward its tragicomic climax, the hat is mentioned two more times.

There was something tragicomic about the corpse lying on the stretcher, wearing only underwear and socks from the waist down.

Brainy, paranoid, famously prone to sulking, he both amused and appalled his co-workers with his many misadventures, his affected mannerisms and his tendency to encounter tragicomic disaster.