seriocomic

A seriocomic little trade war has broken out over bananas.

These seriocomic films seem to ask: what to do about dear old Mom?

The tone of the book is distinctly Yankee and takes a seriocomic approach to the subject matter.

A scorecard would help to keep the players in the seriocomic contemporary plot straight.

There is a seriocomic anatomy of the stages of losing something.

They ran across just about every conceivable situation in the seriocomic chaos that is New York.

This is a centuries-old seriocomic tale of conflict between Christian authority and the ghetto.

The movie that unfolds might be described as a contemporary seriocomic bedroom farce.

He's a cartoon figure, a big, gangling improbability, with a seriocomic personality.

As the movie goes along, it suspends its mood of high anxiety to take seriocomic tangents.

This creates all kinds of seriocomic problems.

The fast-paced show often blended together two or more Sondheim songs into seriocomic medleys with dancers.

More recently, he has expanded his range, taking seriocomic looks at the aging process and the sometimes unhappy consequences of raising children of wealth.

Lemon skillfully merges dozens of minute details to form a seriocomic mosaic."

Edam is a seriocomic pivot in the Australian film Three Dollars.

The making of TV's best seriocomic musical dancefest spectacular.

Charlotte Rampling co-stars with Allen in this seriocomic piece about a movie director.

Rimbol was off in a seriocomic vein to lighten the tension that was developing.

He was a big chap with a seriocomic face that, when it tried to look grave, only succeeded in achieving an expression of mock solemnity.

There is, however, a well-argued, seriocomic subtext to "Ariadne" that slapstick productions can only obscure.

"There are nights where it is very quiet out there," said Ms. Nielsen, in typically seriocomic style.

Vocal, playful and raw, his seriocomic dance-theater pieces explore both kinetic boundaries and personal issues.

The woman's seriocomic lament became the speedy gabble of deranged chipmunks on a rocket-sled.

"Wide Awake" imagines it's a seriocomic "coming of age" film radiating waves of healing sweetness and light.