Tragicomedy

Does Irving move his readers in both directions, toward the comedy and the tragedy as the term tragicomedy implies? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Marion Cotillard is set to lead Les Petits Mouchoirs, in what is described as Variety as a "tragicomedy", whatever the hell that is! ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1661, in a vulgar "tragicomedy" entitled _The Presbyterian Lash_, we find: ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

He also returned to the pastoral play in the _Serra da Estrella_, while his exquisite lyrism flowers afresh in the _Triunfo do Inverno_, a tragicomedy which is really a medley of farces. ❋ Gil Vicente (1501)

It also discusses questions of genre and reception, rejecting such descriptions as 'tragicomedy' or 'romantic tragedy', and showing how later artists have responded to Euripides 'unorthodox heroine and her phantom double. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Despite the rather grim scenario, Stanescu's self-described "tragicomedy" has much more humor than despair. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In an age of penny-pinching small-scale shows, Mr. Letts's laceratingly black tragicomedy about an Oklahoma family on the verge of disintegration was a spectacular exception to the iron rule of economy, a 3½-hour monster that demanded a giant set and a cast of 13. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

But as Burress prepares for his release, we might as well point out one last layer of ludicrousness: how much money this football tragicomedy has cost the state of New Jersey. ❋ Aditi Kinkhabwala (2011)

Contrasting with Malick's new agey, Romantic reverie was the old age study of the holy word contained in Joseph Cedar's Talmud tragicomedy Footnote, probably my favourite film of the festival. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But "The Diary of a Madman" is an ambiguous tragicomedy without a bottom line. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

As much as I'd like to believe that the sheer craziness of the far right will scare off swing voters, if they're in an anti-Dem mood they might reflexively vote the crazies in, unaware of the tragicomedy of errors they're inviting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Updike's tragicomedy of half-consenting treacheries, time and not adultery is the worst betrayer. ❋ Tessa Hadley (2011)

— Coming off another tragicomedy of a season in 2010, the Mets took ne arly all the requisite steps to placate their beaten-down fan base. ❋ Brian Costa (2011)

Starring Dunham and her real-life family, Tiny Furniture is tragicomedy about what does and does not happen when you graduate with no skills, no love life, and a lot of free time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is some post-modern tragicomedy that someone like Yglesias has to even contend with “but who says Health insurance saves lives?” as a not-satirical proposition. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Recall the Shakespearean tragicomedy when Ted and Caroline Kennedy talked Bill Richardson into abandoning Hillary at primary crunchtime. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

• A new day, new revelations via WikiLeaks about the tragicomedy at Guantánamo Bay. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Like kids in Toy Story, we never truly outgrow the eternally mythic -- even when deconstructed to the point of tragicomedy and redux -- cowboy. ❋ Michael Vazquez (2011)

The Pregnant Widow, described by its publisher as a tragicomedy, follows the lives of six young people spending a long, hot summer holiday in an Italian castle during the sexual revolution and the “sea change” of 1970. ❋ Unknown (2009)