How to Use tragicomic in a Sentence

tragicomic

adjective

• And Meat played the tragicomic biker’s love song to the hilt.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
• The film is an acute, tragicomic reflection on the use and abuse of the mobile phone.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
• The armpit event fires the starting gun of a long, frantic, sometimes tragicomic race.
  — Joan Frank, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• There are more than forty paintings of this strange, tragicomic figure, eight of which are in the MoCA show.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• The near-miss irony of these coincidences lends the film a frantic, tragicomic verve.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 June 2022
• Schnittke calls for the lights to slowly dim on this tragicomic ending.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
• Things feel different now, even in the few months since Lightfoot took over, and even with the tragicomic scandal of the Jussie Smollett affair.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 3 June 2019
• Mildred is a small but pivotal role, one that sets the stage for Yank's tragicomic undoing.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• On that score, the ACLU would seem to be in the vanguard, once again blithely highlighting the increasingly tragicomic irony of its name.
  — WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• The film tells the tragicomic tale of how our greatest talents can become our greatest flaws, and how unpredictable our lives can be.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• The lack of returnees on Thursday followed the same tragicomic script as previous efforts to get the Rohingya home.
  — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2019
• Johnson builds her micro tragicomic set piece into the macro Good-and-Evil spacefight.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2019
• The beating tragicomic heart of Östlund’s wickedly funny class satire was also, hands-down, the supporting performer of the year.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• The mind behind these tragicomic tales will speak Thursday at Politics and Prose.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
• The songs ended up cryptic and emphatic, tragicomic and bold: taking things to the limit in taut three-minute packages.
  — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
• Voormann witnessed a tragicomic scene as John, dressed as a cleaning woman and knocking over mike stands, worked through his grief.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2022
• King’s tweet-chronicle is a new techno-strain of this tragicomic black lyricism.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• This year, the awards went tragicomic with The Banshees of Inisherin taking the most nominations.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2022
• Yet Lashana Lynch is most assuredly first among equals in terms of the supporting cast — Izogie is the sort of tragicomic, shoot-the-moon, standout type of role that brings out the best in the British actor, and vice versa.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2022
• Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic play Waiting for Godot is about two tramps waiting on a country road by a leafless tree for somebody named Godot.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2020
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is a pageant of tragicomic (-book) immoderation.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 28 Apr. 2023
• Young, who is influenced by Langston Hughes’ tragicomic writing, weaves in bits of humor between the grief.
  — Jeremy Redmon, ajc, 27 Sep. 2021
• This tragicomic meditation on growing old is not to be missed.
  — Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Fox makes it through all this with both light humor and deep introspection: The entire book is well woven in a rich tragicomic tapestry.
  — Porochista Khakpour, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
• Rupert Everett makes his stage directing debut and plays the title role in this new version of Chekhov's tragicomic classic by David Hare.
  — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2019
• In between the tragicomic bits — there is much fun with accents — the performers grab instruments and sing a folk song, mostly Americana, but also Irish and such.
  — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 4 May 2018
• Spotty Wi-Fi served up the tragicomic cavalcade of cabinet nominees in dribs and drabs.
  — Pilar Guzmán, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2017
• For those who’ve dealt with loss during the pandemic, or even well before it, the 12 tracks are restorative balms that encourage you to cry, yell, or in some cases laugh at our tragicomic existence.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
• Early in that novel, the protagonist meets a hermit named Cardenio who—in a tragicomic episode tailor-made for Shakespeare—has withdrawn to the Spanish hills after his friend stole his girlfriend.
  — Andrea Mays, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
• David Zellner’s screenplay mimics the tragicomic rhythm of human lives, attempting to emotionally connect the audiences to this family.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024