Tragicomic

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

1. ‘And he aims to complete this picture with a tragicomedy dealing with the relationship between two fiery best friends.’
2. ‘Unfortunately the formula that produces big laughs on screen is somewhat less amusing for the fans of this latter long-running tragicomedy.’
3. ‘Artistic features Measure for Measure has been perceived as an exceptionally complex and ‘dark’ comedy
4. or tragicomedy
5. mostly because of its peculiar structure and characterization.’
6. ‘That's because it is not a tragicomedy about being old
7. but about the grief of settling into middle age
8. specifically the middle age of a married working-class man.’
9. ‘John Dancer's tragicomedy Agrippa
10. King of Alba appeared in 1669.’
11. ‘This odd-couple tragicomedy is so well acted by both men
12. so utterly involving
13. and so real.’
14. ‘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.’
15. ‘If the play were a comedy
16. or at least a tragicomedy
17. Edgar's victory over Edmund would have turned the tribulation to joy.’
18. ‘This tragedy is transformed into a tragicomedy
19. and indeed
20. into a farce
21. by a mechanical device that belongs more to vaudeville than to a novel.’
22. ‘Of his three rousing tragicomedies
23. Juno and the Paycock is the most popular
24. The Shadow of a Gunman the most moving
25. and The Plow and the Stars the most accomplished.’
26. ‘Okay
27. so your life hasn't been made into a movie yet
28. but some days it has all of the makings of a studio tragicomedy.’
29. ‘It's like a romantic comedy written by Beckett - a romantic tragicomedy - in which romance dies not in some passionate combustion
30. but fizzles out into uncomfortable
31. aseptic banality.’
32. ‘But any significant new insights into that strange
33. perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by.’
34. ‘In this tragicomedy
35. lives and careers take place backward
36. starting with the corruption of success and winding up at an innocent high school graduation.’
37. ‘And maybe
38. I too
39. was a little worried about the performance: an ultramodern and forward-looking interpretation of a tragicomedy about emotional desperation.’
40. ‘The terms black comedy and tragicomedy imply a mix of the mordant and the humorous.’
41. ‘The play also captures something of Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot.’
42. ‘She has crafted a consistently engaging tragicomedy of life in the big city.’
43. ‘I hated those mindless
44. endless Indian tragicomedies
45. with their maudlin themes and their (no less than) fifteen song-and-dance numbers.’
46. ‘Part fairy tale
47. part tragicomedy
48. it's sure to be a hit.’