Pearl left various tragicomical accounts of the long wide straight avenue driven through the center of Nanjing by the first bulldozer the city had ever seen. ❋ Hilary Spurling (2010)
Billboards touting the film are a tragicomical tableau of the state of the state: the grinning narco in his cowboy hat and white suit standing alongside a fictional version of the real-life "El Pozolero," the infamous Stewmaker, who disposed of corpses in a 50-gallon drum of lye. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Compared to the farcical Polish "Duce" and his tragicomical blackshort minions, however, Szálasi's followers were far more fearsome. ❋ Johnny Pez (2010)
Mr. Monicelli's 1959 movie "The Great War" tells the tragicomical story of two young Italians - played by Gassman and Alberto Sordi - who try to avoid going to the front during World War I. ❋ Alessandra Rizzo (2010)
However, by skillfully exploiting this method, Kafka manages to lead us from poker-faced protocol to subjective angst, forming a bond between tragicomical protagonists and desperately smirking readers—only to alienate the characters even more, since the bond is unilateral: the persona can never leave the imaginary world and can therefore never link up with the real author and the real reader. ❋ Franz Kafka (2000)
The personalities Preston touches upon range from the flashy prosecutor Pier Luigi Vigna to the devastated mother of one of the victims to the tragicomical chain of suspects. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Everyone has his own agenda: some defend their own views come what may, others defend their own ideological relativism come what may - sometimes they unite and the result is both tragicomical and dangerous. ❋ Unknown (2005)
His first dramas are lighter and more playful than the later ones - pranks, ironical and satirical scenes, pictures of everyday life with telling and witty dialogue, often with a tragicomical or grotesque sense of life as keynote. ❋ Unknown (1986)
Apparently she sensed the tragicomical irony of the situation. ❋ Scheer, Karl (1976)
In Kipling the British Army has found a minstrel to interpret in a new, original, and tragicomical manner the toils and deprivations through which it has to pass, and to depict its life and work with abundant acknowledgment of the great qualities it displays, but without the least trace of meretricious embellishment. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Dame Zudár laughed scornfully at this tragicomical scene. ❋ M��r J��kai (1864)
As long as he's the pop-culture creature known as A-Rod -- the nation's most polarizing athlete and a New York-based, tragicomical magnet for controversy in the Internet age -- he'll have to deal with matters that few others will endure in the history of sports.
