How to Use tragicomedy in a Sentence

tragicomedy

noun

• The play is a tragicomedy about a man's search for love.
• The basic components of the tone of my films are the tragicomedy and a dash of the grotesque.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 25 Aug. 2021
• Few would dare, at this point, to guess what the next act in the national tragicomedy will be.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 1 Aug. 2017
• The process was bumpy, a tragicomedy that unfurled over decades.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• Sure, and have the rest of my life be a tragicomedy of nicotine withdrawal.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• Through years of filming the tragicomedy, the two actors learned to deeply trust each other.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• And speaking of tragicomedies, The Farewell was also ignored.
  — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Jan. 2020
• But while Iannucci whips up a fever-pitch frenzy, his film is not a farce, but a tragicomedy.
  — Christopher Kompanek, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• The mirth picks up as the storytelling kicks into gear, thanks to Aleichem’s brisk narrative voice and gift for tragicomedy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
• We are thrust into a martial-arts movie for the ages, yes, but also a sly tragicomedy of cross-generational angst.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Say this, too: The high drama of the show’s funeral scenes or the blunt tragicomedy of the again-as-farce restaging of the 2016 election weren’t what this particular show does notably well.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 28 May 2023
• The film is a tragicomedy about four young people in a holiday home on the Baltic coast who are threatened by an encroaching forest fire.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2023
• After his breakout role in the German tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin!
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2023
• After his breakout role in the German tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin!
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
• The scene was podcast gold, full of action and tragicomedy and winking references.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2021
• Iannucci refers to it as a tragicomedy, folding the horror of this world right up next to absurd comedy.
  — Katie Walsh, idahostatesman, 5 Apr. 2018
• If this sounds a bit heady for a rollicking tragicomedy in which pratfalls and death throes are tumbled together, that is part of the play’s unusual scheme.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• That’s one way of looking at Bess Wohl’s tragicomedy featuring four siblings, ages 5 through 12.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
• Modern dating can feel like one endless tragicomedy: the swiping, the awkward first dates, and all the ghosting included.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2023
• In this traumedy-slash-tragicomedy-slash-dramedy about grief and mental health, Jimmy’s life falls apart after the sudden death of his wife.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• The Book in paperback Tuesday for those still clinging to Whedon’s geeky tragicomedy about a wannabe supervillain.
  — Scott Thill, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2011
• The comedian has instead opted to do new projects, like the tragicomedy Horace and Pete, which recently won a Peabody award.
  — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 1 May 2017
• The British actress writes, produces, co-directs and stars in this tragicomedy as Arabella, a struggling novelist trying to piece together the night she was drugged and raped at a bar.
  — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2021
• The 11-season tragicomedy ended on Sunday night with almost no closure, even as the episodes prior to the finale led viewers to believe everything would more or less wrap up.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2021
• This poignant tragicomedy, about a beloved children’s television host (Jim Carrey) who strains to keep his brand intact as his personal life crumbles, has plenty of life left in it.
  — Sara Aridi, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2020
• That For You is pretty much the quintessential tragicomedy.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
• There are three things fashion people love: eccentrics, glamour, and tragicomedy – that perverse play of humor and sadness so loved in the British (and camp) comedy cannon that we Americans can't get enough of.
  — refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
• This series impeccably mixes the funny with the tragic in life and in an effort to label it terms such as dramedy, tragicomedy and traumedy have been used.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• The film is a tragicomedy following the family of a teenage YouTuber who posts an irreverent video lampooning a megachurch pastor in defense of his gay twin brother.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
• In a bit of tragicomedy typical of this novel, Anjum becomes a media celebrity, a favorite of journalists and filmmakers who want to expose the plight of hijras.
  — Ron Charles, The Denver Post, 31 May 2017

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024