Dictionary entry
Tragicomic
Pronunciation: /ˌtradʒɪˈkɒmɪk/
Pronunciation
/ˌtradʒɪˈkɒmɪk/
Myanmar Meaning
ငိုရမလို ရယ်ရမလို။ ငိုအားထက် ရယ်အားသန်ရသော။
Definition
tragicomedy /trædʒi'kɒmǝdi/ n [C, U] (က) အလြမ္းအေသာ စံုသည့္ ျပဇာတ္။ (ခ) ငိုအားထက္ ရယ္အားသန္ရသည့္ အျဖစ္။ ငိုရမလိုရယ္ရမလို အျဖစ္။ ❏ tragicomic /-'kɒmÇk/ adj ငိုရမလို ရယ္ရမလို။ ငိုအားထက္ ရယ္အားသန္ရေသာ။
Examples
- ‘And he aims to complete this picture with a tragicomedy dealing with the relationship between two fiery best friends.’
- ‘Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy.’
- ‘Artistic features Measure for Measure has been perceived as an exceptionally complex and ‘dark’ comedy
- or tragicomedy
- mostly because of its peculiar structure and characterization.’
- ‘That's because it is not a tragicomedy about being old
- but about the grief of settling into middle age
- specifically the middle age of a married working-class man.’
- ‘John Dancer's tragicomedy Agrippa
- King of Alba appeared in 1669.’
- ‘This odd-couple tragicomedy is so well acted by both men
- so utterly involving
- and so real.’
- ‘Her chance came in this 15 th-century tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas about a madam at a brothel who agrees to help a nobleman seduce a young virgin.’
- ‘If the play were a comedy
- or at least a tragicomedy
- Edgar's victory over Edmund would have turned the tribulation to joy.’
- ‘This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy
- and indeed
- into a farce
- by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel.’
- ‘Of his three rousing tragicomedies
- Juno and the Paycock is the most popular
- The Shadow of a Gunman the most moving
- and The Plow and the Stars the most accomplished.’
- ‘Okay
- so your life hasn't been made into a movie yet
- but some days it has all of the makings of a studio tragicomedy.’
- ‘It's like a romantic comedy written by Beckett - a romantic tragicomedy - in which romance dies not in some passionate combustion
- but fizzles out into uncomfortable
- aseptic banality.’
- ‘But any significant new insights into that strange
- perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by.’
- ‘In this tragicomedy
- lives and careers take place backward
- starting with the corruption of success and winding up at an innocent high school graduation.’
- ‘And maybe
- I too
- was a little worried about the performance: an ultramodern and forward-looking interpretation of a tragicomedy about emotional desperation.’
- ‘The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous.’
- ‘The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot.’
- ‘She has crafted a consistently engaging tragicomedy of life in the big city.’
- ‘I hated those mindless
- endless Indian tragicomedies
- with their maudlin themes and their (no less than) fifteen song-and-dance numbers.’
- ‘Part fairy tale
- part tragicomedy
- it's sure to be a hit.’