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Tragicomic in a sentence
Tragicomic meaning
Of, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy; having both tragic and comic aspects.
Using Tragicomic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy; having both tragic and comic aspects.
- Useful related words include: tragicomical, tragedy, sad, humorous.
- In the example corpus, tragicomic often appears in combinations such as: in tragicomic.
Context around Tragicomic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tragicomic
- In this selection, "tragicomic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, family, sharply, dark, clown, romance and magnificence stand out and add context to how "tragicomic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dark tragicomic twist and a family tragicomic by alison. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tragicomic" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tragicomic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
His scripts feature black comedy and often end with a dark tragicomic twist. (13 words)
Thus, online, the non-drama transformed into a tragicomic metaphor for the problem of Nigeria. (15 words)
Irreverence, parody, degradation, and laughter at a tragicomic effigy God can be seen as intensifications of the sacred order. (19 words)
When the sisters’ mother phones up to say she’s sick, the pair — joined by Nilo’s rambunctious teenage daughter Laura — embarks on a road trip through Europe to reunite in Sagres, culminating in a tragicomic reunion no one expected. (40 words)
Since then it has been translated and performed in 30 countries and it keeps being produced, due to its profound human angle but also to the bitter humour that renders it timeless and up to date in a tragicomic way. (40 words)
Swanson’s Norma has imperious statements about how pathetic the modern movie business is, how lacking in its old mythic grandeur (“I’m still big, it’s the pictures that got small.”) and possesses a tragicomic magnificence. (37 words)
Example sentences (12)
In its worst applications, a cool leather jacket can leave you looking like a tragicomic clown—trust me, I’ve been there.
No mention of his lovers, but he recounts a tragicomic romance involving a phooka, a pixie, and one of the king’s counselors that was still playing out when he left.
Swanson’s Norma has imperious statements about how pathetic the modern movie business is, how lacking in its old mythic grandeur (“I’m still big, it’s the pictures that got small.”) and possesses a tragicomic magnificence.
When the sisters’ mother phones up to say she’s sick, the pair — joined by Nilo’s rambunctious teenage daughter Laura — embarks on a road trip through Europe to reunite in Sagres, culminating in a tragicomic reunion no one expected.
Since then it has been translated and performed in 30 countries and it keeps being produced, due to its profound human angle but also to the bitter humour that renders it timeless and up to date in a tragicomic way.
Thus, online, the non-drama transformed into a tragicomic metaphor for the problem of Nigeria.
As you may be aware, Watchung Hills Regional High School has included the book “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” by Alison Bechdel in the 12th grade English curriculum.
One might choose to memorialise the Naipaul of his early magical works, whose sentences turned the streets of Trinidad into a world of tragicomic possibility.
Adams, p. 414 Shakespeare's romances are more sharply tragicomic than his comedies: threats of death and scenes of suffering are more acute.
His scripts feature black comedy and often end with a dark tragicomic twist.
Irreverence, parody, degradation, and laughter at a tragicomic effigy God can be seen as intensifications of the sacred order.
Red Skelton 's character in The Clown (1953), Dodo the Clown, depicts the circus clown as a tragicomic stock character, "a funny man with a drinking problem".
Common combinations with tragicomic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in tragicomic 2×