tragicomic

Like most things in the tragicomic world of drug politics, it is not so simple.

With time, we find Charlie often as the tragicomic character of the show.

I'd say that Bill was a tragicomic artist, surely a difficult thing to be.

That she wasn't able to find the perfect city house for her own family is tragicomic.

It tells the tragicomic last days of a poet in Venice.

It was the kind of tragicomic farce he would have delighted in.

The sad recent history of Nicaragua has turned into a tragicomic opera in the past week.

They are almost tragicomic, what with their hands of stone and limitless spirit.

Contemporary novelists tend to see this world in tragicomic terms.

As happens throughout his brilliant tragicomic story, the world simply won't move for him.

She said that since the accident, her love life had ranged from nonexistent to tragicomic.

The devil himself is at work in this tragicomic tale of a community near boiling point.

Indeed, the scenes provide a happy ending to a story that ended six years ago on a tragicomic note.

The collection and its costs also provoked a tragicomic kind of subplot.

The former might be regarded as the tragicomic version, and the latter the tragic, of the same story.

But the mirror offers no guarantee of knowledge; the result is only a tragicomic doubling.

His scripts feature black comedy and often end with a dark tragicomic twist.

His work has been described as baroque and tragicomic.

As one former analysand wrote in 2000, "somebody could write a tragicomic account of this."

Other critics have variously detected tragicomic or political elements in her writing.

None of these propositions could have ended in anything but tragicomic farce.

At times judicial conduct can verge on the tragicomic.

But it has survived - its four movements like one great tragicomic triumphal march.

"Wouldn't you like to be a tragicomic clown stumbling about with a painted face?"

His role is a tragicomic hotelier and first mayor of Deadwood.