| 单词 | tragicomic |
| 例句 | Despite all the indignities visited upon Dolores — and all the crimes she’ll commit in her tragicomic descent into madness — the tale is built on that tender emotional core. The Best New Social Thriller Is a Podcast 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But it also has an arch edge that turns a tragicomic story about a woman’s quest for self-discovery into an examination of relationship anxiety and body dysmorphia. A Horror Genre Where Dresses (and Fridges) Can Kill 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Williams’s stories transmit a deep feeling for life’s transience, a sense that everything is provisional and thus tragicomic. Review: The Stories of Joy Williams: Short, but Seldom Sweet 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z That is the landscape the exhibition stakes out for itself: a tragicomic terrain where it’s impossible to find one coherent image, much less the plethora served up by conventional search engines. 'Image Search' keys in on a chaotic landscape of imagery 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z He is a tragicomic character trapped in a maze of misrepresentations, and also a jerk. Comedian, Rebranded 2011-03-03T17:41:44Z According to Brooks, it reveals “the tragicomic inability of human beings to produce the results they seek in management of public affairs.” ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z As readers, it puts us at ease, too, the humor helping metabolize the surreal scene that precedes it by bringing it within the command of the tragicomic eloquence of these street-corner chroniclers. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z A tragicomic air clings to bands who light up the sky like a firework and fade away. ‘a-ha: The Movie’ Review: The Creative Purgatory of the ‘Take on Me’ Trio 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z In “Dissident Gardens,” a novel jampacked with the human energy of a crowded subway car, Jonathan Lethem attempts a daunting feat: turning three generations’ worth of American leftists into a tragicomic tale of devolution. Books of The Times: ‘Dissident Gardens,’ Jonathan Lethem’s New Novel 2013-09-11T19:49:43Z Do you think the funniest things are also the darkest?I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Sharon Horgan: 'There is a black streak in everything I've done' 2012-12-16T00:05:12Z But in this show's mining of the full tragicomic potential of female sibling rivalry, it also brings with it the thrill of encountering something new. Toby: Lucky 2011-08-16T18:15:02Z That Mr. Stickles would write a tragicomic opera about his home state, especially one with loose allusions to the Civil War, wasn’t always obvious. Music: Two Bands Nurtured in a Garden State of Mind 2010-03-13T00:05:00Z It’s a sophisticated portrait of a marriage in extremis, glimpsed through the subtlest of funhouse mirrors, one that is tragicomic yet devastating in its emotional impact. ‘The Emerald Light in the Air,’ Stories by Donald Antrim 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It is a macabre performance in its way, but utterly real, downbeat and also tragicomic. James Gandolfini's film career: much more than just another wiseguy 2013-06-20T17:00:00Z One tragicomic sequence in her “Archipelago,” starring Hiddleston, observes a family dither dysfunctionally over where to sit at a restaurant. A Filmmaking Life Gets a Sequel 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z In “Thunder Road,” Jim Cummings’s 2018 feature based on his short film of the same name, he used long takes to usher the audience through tragicomic vignettes in real time. ‘The Beta Test’ Review: Paranoia in Hollywood 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Most of my favorite shows are in the comedic space, including moody “Looking,” satiric “Veep,” and the tragicomic family dramas “Togetherness” and “Transparent.” Let’s start arguing about the Emmys now: The critic’s dream ballot that could come true 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The novel, which won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2014, gives an intimate, tragicomic look at the Iraq War through the lens of a small neighborhood in U.S.-occupied Baghdad. Review | The best science fiction and fantasy books to read this month 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The song’s stoicism is the thing: it’s hot out, but he won’t remove his jacket, a tragicomic interpretation of tough guy posturing. The Playlist: Justin Timberlake Stays Funky (for Now), and 9 More New Songs 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Perhaps he has precisely that smart, non-macho sensibility that Poehler’s gag hinted was the key to appreciating the tongue-in-cheek tragicomic melodrama of awards season. Neil Patrick Harris: an Oscars host not a million miles from Seth MacFarlane 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In showing how these transfixed people are destined to act as they do, “Darling” becomes a tragicomic commentary on a culture ruled by the religion of fame. Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Hold On to Me Darling,’ a Study of Bad Faith (and Behavior) 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z These brightly acted works, which consider dashed expectations in different keys, offer an ideal primer on the tragicomic sensibility of one of the funniest writers on the planet. Theater Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Agua, seen here in the UK for the first time, is a tragicomic take on life played out against Brazilian landscapes. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z It doesn’t strive for the operatic grandeur of the “Godfather” movies or for the tragicomic flair of Martin Scorsese’s mobster movies. Movie Review: ‘The Iceman,’ With Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski 2013-05-02T22:01:34Z But Churchill hated the Sutherland portrait with so much irrational passion that it all turned into a tragicomic fiasco. Tina Brown on the Final Two Episodes of ‘The Crown’: Love and Duty 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z And the centerpiece, “A Month in the Country,” is a suspenseful tragicomic story about love and jealousy among vividly characterized individuals of the 19th-century leisured middle class. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z I avidly recommend what they have achieved to theatergoers who have never entirely gotten this playwright’s tragicomic sensibility but who think that they should. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Spike Lee’s memorably ambitious new movie “Chi-Raq,” a heartbreaking tragicomic adaptation of Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” set in present-day Chicago, stands as an eloquent refutation of that thesis. “Chi-Raq”: Spike Lee’s blistering, outrageous satirical assault on a society consumed by violence 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z And the fierce attachment to the female point of view has the effect of turning the male characters’ rage and violence into a tragicomic opera buffa, a stylized performance of endangered pride. Escaping Into ‘Babylon Berlin’ and ‘My Brilliant Friend’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z But this is Beckett, after all, and the story turns out to be more of a tragicomic meditation on life and death. Arts, Briefly: Samuel Beckett at 59E59 Theaters 2013-08-05T13:00:00Z For the sickly Billy the film offers a chance of escape, leads to a Hollywood screen test and takes him on a tragicomic voyage of self-discovery. The Cripple of Inishmaan 2013-06-18T22:00:00Z How — or why — does one make a documentary out of a tragicomic debacle that unfolded on social media in real time, and from a thousand different angles? "Fyre" review: A compelling, all-access look inside the worst music festival of all-time 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z This will not disappoint Helen Simpson, who says that "Lorrie Moore's stories pack more wit and tragicomic power into a single paragraph than most novels manage over 15 chapters." Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z Epic, vital, savage, relentless, insane, existentially incandescent, horrifying, excruciating, not funny, very funny, this is the great tragicomic howl of a madman at full Shakespearean tilt. Top 10 deranged characters 2011-04-06T11:21:05Z It's the kind of role Shore could have played 25 years ago, except that having the character be a rough-edged, middle-aged man instead gives the whole thing an unexpectedly tragicomic note. "If you get Pauly Shore, you get all of Pauly Shore": The joyful return of The Weasel 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z A tragicomic romance about a troubled sneaker creator and a free-spirited flight attendant, "Elizabethtown" flopped at the box office and was panned by critics. 'Aloha': Cameron Crowe still seeking box office redemption 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Another will deliver an outsize tragicomic aria about suicide. A Late-Night Radio Drama, With Hints of the Internet to Come 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z But Ms. LuPone’s sharp, tragicomic performance makes us feel the curious integrity in one woman’s willful deceptions. Review: ‘Shows for Days,’ With Patti LuPone as a Diva With Depth 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Was the proprietor found beating his car with a tree branch in a tragicomic excess of frustration? The worst hotel in Britain: Blackpool's New Kimberley 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z While this tragicomic scene was unfolding, another employee discovered an available seat and led me to a long table lined with stools. Waco, Tex., needed fixing. Luckily, Chip and Joanna Gaines had the tools. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z There’s nothing derivative about this clever novel, but its tragicomic treatment of death, guilt and Jewish orthodoxy surely pays homage to the late great writer. Review | Honoring the dead? Nathan Englander’s ‘kaddish.com’ imagines there’s an app for that. 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z David Brent was the ultimate post-Fawlty tragicomic figure – a man desperate for popularity who would never put a foot in it when he could stick in both size nines. The Office ? still doing the business 2011-07-08T10:12:30Z Yes, his name is eventually revealed in a tragicomic denouement. Review: ‘The Whirligig’ Is a Feast for Actors, by a Knowing Chef 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z All of the films expose the tragicomic truths about cultural life under the grey facade of communism and fascism. Emigre to U.S. documents extraordinary Russian lives 2010-06-25T18:23:00Z Ms. Lane’s approach here is dramatically different from that of her 2016 film “Nuts!,” which used animation and comedic narration to deflate the tragicomic story of a medical charlatan from the early 20th century. 3 Sobering Documentaries on Netflix, Fandor and Field of Vision 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The optimist views it as innocent, tragicomic, an excess of effort. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Nikolai Schukoff, as her unsuccessful and hapless suitor Erik, is an ardent singer who becomes a tragicomic figure in this staging, with exaggerated attitudes of suffering that draw some audience laughter. Seattle Opera’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ unleashes gloriously perfect storm 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The process is unpredictable, tragicomic, slightly messy — and thoroughly touching. Review: In ‘With No Fanfare,’ Things Fall Apart 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z This movie is a feminist critique of one nation’s antiquated institutions, but it’s also a tragicomic study of the self-congratulatory and paradoxical nature of bureaucracy. “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem”: A riveting divorce drama, Israeli-style 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z After a series of tragicomic mishaps worthy of one of his characters, he has over the years been labeled an elitist, a misogynist, a climate-change denier. Review | Jonathan Franzen has some baggage. Does his latest essay collection rise above it? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z My feeling though is that the Foreign Press Association will once again – and understandably – roll over for Meryl Streep for the umpteenth time, rewarding her tragicomic queenliness as the abysmal society warbler Mrs Jenkins. Golden Globes 2017: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z A biting tragicomic romance, Billy Wilder’s The Apartment seems darker with each passing year. The nine greatest best picture winners at the Oscars 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z “Each year in Milan, I enjoy the tragicomic dialogue between green design and mass consumption,” he wrote in an email. Textiles Are Part of the Fabric of Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z When Ness eventually turns to searching for the Torso Killer, he overcompensates, in tragicomic fashion. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z It’s that “Gorilla and the Bird,” though sure to be marketed as a mental health memoir, is equally a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita, Kan. Delving Into the Bipolar Mind 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z If the 70s were a blur, the 80s climaxed in tragicomic style when, in a drunken stupor, he tried to strangle his wife. Black Sabbath on the occult, God, cocaine and reuniting for new album 13 2013-06-06T16:35:50Z Meanwhile, we will doubtless continue with our tragicomic street theatre of daily coping. The unpredictable power of nature 2013-02-15T18:01:01Z Stanya Kahn’s tragicomic “It’s Cool, I’m Good,” about ecology, animal wisdom, and salvation through abjection, is transcendent: one look and you’re hooked. When to Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Under the weight of a tragicomic need to avenge, self-endangerment becomes inconsequential. "The Banshees of Inisherin": Competing concepts of justice wage war in McDonagh’s Irish tragicomedy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z His role as a shambling, tragicomic mess of an impoverished patriarch in the now-ended series was just one more of the character actor’s indelible creations. AP Emmy pundits favor ‘The Crown,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ for honors 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z His bluesy introduction and slurring instrumental commentary lent a tragicomic note to Mr. Haggard’s boozy 1966 smash, “The Bottle Let Me Down.” Ralph Mooney, Master of the Steel Guitar, Dies at 82 2011-03-27T00:58:42Z Oh, and a bee called Branford, who hovers outside the building and has his own tragicomic yearnings to deal with. Christmas gifts 2012: the best fiction 2012-11-29T08:30:02Z Landau’s Lugosi is a tragicomic creation: his wife has left him, he is addicted to morphine and most of Hollywood thinks he is dead. Martin Landau obituary 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z But it's the supremely deadpan tragicomic performance by Galifianakis that gives the movie its heart. "It's Kind of a Funny Story": Zach Galifianakis' dramatic breakthrough 2010-10-09T14:20:00Z The tragicomic chapters about this episode alone are worth the price of the book. ‘Ranger Games’ Investigates a Crime and a Soldier’s Mind 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z They’ve written a memoir, tragicomic, of course, and are looking for a publisher. They Built It. No One Came. 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z One of Mumbai's finest chroniclers, Mistry excavates with tragicomic detail the warts-and-all skin and soul of the city of his birth and youth. India must move beyond book-burning 2010-10-21T14:10:00Z At her best, though, Wharton captures the tragicomic ways that character and class interact, and it’s just that moral calculus that McManus figures so accurately. ‘The Unfortunates’ evokes a modern-day Edith Wharton novel 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z This exhibition has the structure of a circus, complete with side shows, 19th-century optical devices, and illusions that reveal the tragicomic spectacle of our recent and not so recent past. Carrie Mae Weems Sets the Stage and Urges Action 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z The show is brilliant, nearly every tragicomic minute, but also reveals once and for all why the US never succumbed. Robbie Williams – review 2013-06-30T14:13:59Z Songwriter Jeff Barry had the most tragicomic reason for missing his big night: He couldn't catch a flight to New York. ABBA, Genesis, Stooges honored 2010-03-16T13:16:00Z Another important influence on his artistic development was the tragicomic narrative tradition of the glass artisans near his native town. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In a world of air-kisses, this is the most viscerally real relationship, and the most transgressive and queasily tragicomic. Cannes 2014 review: Maps to the Stars - Hollywood dreams turn queasy in David Cronenberg's brilliant nightmare 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Those homely old American voices — by turns formal, tragicomic and haunting — are crystallized on every page of his work, with the immediacy one sometimes sees in a daguerreotype 150 years old. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z At just 80 minutes in length, and performed by a hard-working ensemble of eight, it flashes back through the 58 rather sad years of this man's life in tragicomic manner. This week's new theatre 2013-03-30T06:00:21Z It’s fascinating to watch that balance being further adjusted with each successive play; and to see the multicast ensemble embody both sides of the tragicomic equation. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Written in 1905, shortly after what would become known as Bloody Sunday, when peaceful protesters were shot down by the tsar's troops, this rarely seen play offers a tragicomic picture of a self-absorbed intelligentsia. Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-17T13:13:58Z On the steps of St. Andrew’s Church, they enacted a tragicomic scene by James Plunkett in which two strikers consider the different ways to wring drink money from Catholics and Protestants. Perspective | What’s the best way to tour a city? A book critic stumbles onto the answer. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Her tragicomic masterpieces, such as “The Beginning of Spring” and “The Blue Flower,” are concise, beautifully composed accounts of ordinary people stoically facing up to life’s confusions and defeats. Michael Dirda reviews ‘Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life,’ by Hermione Lee 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z But behind them are real-life tragicomic sagas of decent folks struggling and striving, some prospering while others scrape by. Playwright’s working-class roots inspired Seattle Rep’s ‘Good People’ 2013-03-07T20:19:42Z Barry has just announced his intent to take responsibility for the crimes Winkler's tragicomic thespian is being accused of, but it's too late. Bill Hader gives "Barry" his made-for-TV movie hero wish 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z As the plot careers forward, Adjei-Brenyah uses footnotes as tethers between fiction and reality, reminding us that his gladiatorial farce is just a little tragicomic leap from an extant American horror. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z End Of Love continues these themes, exploring elusive loves and fragile memories with tragicomic aplomb. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-18T00:08:35Z They concern her tragicomic adventures and those of her sister Maybonne, her beloved, emotionally troubled brother Freddie, their chronically enraged mother and many other neighborhood eccentrics. Lynda Barry: ‘Everything: Part I’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z I dragged my heels somewhat on this one, having last year seen an earlier iteration of the director Scott Elliott’s production Off Broadway that struggled to make the play’s tragicomic components cohere. ‘Wild Party’ Gets a Frenetic Revival in London 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z His chronic dysfunction lent a tragicomic grandeur to the Chatsworth Estate. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z He imbues Tevye with tragicomic richness, and his renditions of signature tunes like “If I Were a Rich Man” are a delight. A soulful, flavorful ‘Fiddler’ at Village 2012-11-14T21:43:13Z Mr. Wolfe’s handwritten plot outline is on view, as well as an eloquent letter to himself about the book’s aim, to map the tragicomic intersections of the city’s racial and social groups. Tom Wolfe’s Papers Pop Up at the New York Public Library 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Shteyngart deftly pivots from this hilarious, tragicomic parody to a mood closer to the wistful, elegiac tones of his beloved Russian master, Chekhov. Review | Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Our Country Friends’ is the darkly brilliant comedy we need right now 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The Mexican writer’s tragicomic debut features an attorney rendered mute by tongue cancer who finds comfort in the profane squawks of a parrot. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Dating back to the early days of his regime, killing Castro became the tragicomic obsession of a generation of American spies. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z “The Shadow of a Gunman,” Sean O’Casey’s tragicomic 1923 play about gun violence, patriotism and empty rhetoric, has returned to the Irish Repertory Theater, the first production in a season devoted to his work. Review: ‘The Shadow of a Gunman’ Is a Comedy That Goes Bang 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z “There was something going around in the world that they were part of, but they were a sort of tragicomic offshoot. They were not serious revolutionaries.” Jeffrey Toobin, Patty Hearst, and the mad mad 1970s 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z “A family tragicomic” is the subtitle of the book by Ms. Bechdel on which this show is based. Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Unfailingly polite, hypersensitive to the risk of boring anyone, he remains congenial throughout, but “the tragicomic business of being alive is getting to him.” Do we really need another novel about a novelist? Yes — this one is delightful. 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z In a quintessentially epic tragicomic way, Trump’s grandiose narcissism, delusion, and assorted bigotries have become a nation’s shame instead of merely his own. The Donald Trump jokes are on us now: This public humiliation should have tanked his politics career — but it only fueled his fire 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Yet this portrait of Innocent X by Velázquez inspired some of the darkest images of human impotence and tragicomic failure in modern art. Oh, the power of papal portraiture 2013-03-12T15:28:35Z Yet tracking down this man proves complex, vexing and tragicomic. Brando Skyhorse’s memoir of surviving his wacky mother is harrowing and humorous Sharp, tragicomic moments in these consecutive, not-quite-ghost stories persist in memory. Books of The Times: ‘The Corpse Exhibition,’ Stories About a War-Torn Life 2014-01-28T22:29:14Z The night was auspicious, too, for playwright Stephen Karam, whose tragicomic family drama “The Humans” was named best new play. ‘Hamilton’ doesn’t hit a record at the Tonys, but dominates the night 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Written during a decade-long explosion of creativity, these plays present a tragicomic vision of the American family that, for my money, puts him in the exalted company of Eugene O’Neill. Review: Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano Go Mano a Mano in the Riveting ‘True West’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z These bones of a nuanced, even moving story are soon boiled into a watery stock of familial surprises and tragicomic setups. ‘Raymond & Ray’ Review: Oh, Brother 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The songs ended up cryptic and emphatic, tragicomic and bold: taking things to the limit in taut three-minute packages. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z In one tragicomic scene Mrs. Siegel does her Christmas shopping at Walmart — but then overcompensates by practically buying the place out. Arts & Leisure: ‘The Queen of Versailles’ and Its Lawsuit 2012-06-21T15:00:00Z Late in the novel, the narrative suddenly slips back to show Abby and Red before they were married, and then it fades back further still to tell the tragicomic story of Red’s mismatched parents. Anne Tyler’s new novel feels familiar, but that’s actually a good thing 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z But the broken, jagged heart of this production belongs to Ms. Rodriguez and Mr. Cannavale, who turn their characters’ relationship into a bruising, tragicomic apache dance of love, betrayal and indecision. | 'The ___________ With the Hat': A Love Not at a Loss for Words 2011-04-12T06:30:20Z The documentary sings the praises of video games as learning devices but fails to address those tragicomic YouTube videos of kids melting down over games. Deeper, please: We want and expect more from video game documentaries 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z His elegant tragicomic turn should be leading this year’s best actor race, but the film hasn’t managed to break out of the foreign-language holding pen. The 10 film performances that deserve more awards attention this year 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Israel’s contender for this year’s foreign-language Academy Award was Joseph Cedar’s “Footnote,” a tragicomic tale of rival father-and-son Jewish scholars in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. ?Footnote,? Israeli Film by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-02T19:18:50Z “I’m bedridden,” says Simon, milking the scenario for all its tragicomic worth, “weighing whether to dole my money to people lined up outside the house!” ‘Simpsons’ co-creator finds the funny in cancer 2013-08-28T22:35:38Z In this tragicomic novel, a visionary preacher comes up against the grim realities of life in a Cuban backwater. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Throughout the tragicomic solo “Monologue,” a trumpeter literally disassembles the horn, producing a litany of hisses, sputters and rattles. Sharing an Intimate Musical Vision 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Our hero doesn’t speak, though the people he encounters sometimes do, relating tragicomic stories, or bursting into song. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z It captures the middle classes of Mumbai with still, quiet clarity and tells a tragicomic and tale about modern family life. Nikesh Shukla's top 10 Anglo-Asian books 2010-12-22T11:17:38Z Having grown up over her parents’ pub in Kent, Holly displays a tragicomic mix of confidence and naivete, which Mitchell balances endearingly to keep her from seeming like an object of mockery. Review: ‘The Bone Clocks,’ by David Mitchell The optimist views it as innocent, tragicomic, an excess of effort Saying that a person is pretentious can be a way of calling out the trappings and absurdities of power. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z All of that is true in Mike Leigh’s subtle, tragicomic “Mr. Turner,” which among other things possesses a pictorial intensity and a sense of widescreen spectacle not heretofore seen in Leigh’s talky and claustrophobic films. “Mr. Turner”: This gorgeous story of a wounded misanthrope genius will surprise you 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z These are the tenements of Dublin, circa 1920s, where O’Casey’s tragicomic characters live and drink and pray and mourn in the midst of war. The Week in Arts: Idris Elba, Taking on War and José González 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z The tragicomic chaos in the House in the last week is the natural result of a political party that has lived under Trump’s thumb. Here's how we know the Republican Party has become an autocratic movement 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Two Irish writers are on the shortlist: Paul Lynch, for post-democratic dystopia “Prophet Song,” and Paul Murray, for tragicomic family saga “The Bee Sting.” Novels from US, UK, Canada and Ireland are finalists for the Booker Prize for fiction 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Paul Murray, another Irish writer, was nominated for “The Bee Sting,” a tragicomic family saga. Man Booker Prize long list features 4 Irish writers, 4 debut novelists 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Over the course of four seasons, Ruck has developed a nuanced read on his tragicomic character. Alan Ruck is clear-eyed enough to know his Connor Roy has a 'delusional disorder' 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z An allegory of state surveillance, the piece was dark … but also tragicomic, and Kline, then 35, went from being a presence on the nascent Manhattan Chinatown gallery scene to booking solo museum shows. An Artist for the End of the World 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The beating tragicomic heart of Östlund’s wickedly funny class satire was also, hands-down, the supporting performer of the year. Our critic says ‘Tár’ deserves several Oscars, including best picture 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z According to the New York Times, “Their trek sometimes taps the tragicomic feel of a soul-baring late-night conversation in a bar.” New movies to stream this week: ‘Pamela, a Love Story’ and more 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Speaking of Congress, after a historic and tragicomic leadership battle in the House among members of the Republican Party, Kevin McCarthy emerged with a questionable victory as the new speaker of the House. Two years after Jan. 6, it still divides our politics — and the press isn't helping 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z And he’s currently flexing his tragicomic muscles in “Welcome to Chippendales,” a Hulu limited series based on the surprisingly ill-starred history of the male strip revue that became a cultural sensation in the 1980s. Acting once left Murray Bartlett 'in pieces.' How he became Hollywood's go-to 'hunk' 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z In that respect, in rereading “In God We Trust” and “Wanda Hickey” recently, I was brought to mind of the mordant, tragicomic wit of novelist T.C. Review | Do you know the stories behind ‘A Christmas Story’? 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Talk to the ever-genteel Parsons about his “Spoiler Alert” experience and it quickly becomes clear just how deep he delved into the tragicomic tale. Jim Parsons is ready to reckon with his mortality 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z He and Perry are trying to thread a narrow needle, making a selfish, short-sighted doofus into a tragicomic antihero. Review: Quirky heist movie 'Four Samosas' revels in Artesia's Indian American community 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Unbelievable, ridiculous spectacles like Kanye West's tragicomic Alex Jones interview are tools for fascism and other extremist forces to assault the collective emotional and intellectual life of a society, on the way to conquering it. Kanye's tragicomic, antisemitic Alex Jones meltdown: Absurdism in the service of fascism 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z In this funny, freaky, emotionally extravagant, tragicomic gush, he sounds like a machine that’s learned how to cry. Review | What if Lil Yachty’s ‘Poland’ contains the meaning of life? 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z The former One Direction frontman seemed to embrace the tragicomic spiral that “Don’t Worry Darling” has devolved into, pitting him at various points against Pine, actor Shia LaBeouf and even “Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudeikis. Harry Styles himself joins the 'Don't Worry Darling' spit joke bandwagon 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z His tunnel vision is both an accouterment of power and a tragicomic flaw. The major miscalculation behind 'Succession's' unspectacular season 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Take a Shakespeare play about the tragicomic undoing of two royal families and add music. Check out these 2021 Seattle holiday shows for a dose of good cheer 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z He insists that the entire edifice of Marvel publishing is a singular aesthetic triumph — “a boisterous, tragicomic, magnificently filigreed story about power and ethics, set in a world transformed by wonders.” A writer mapped the Marvel Comics Universe in a book. Do we need it? 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z During this whole tragicomic mishmash, with military and civilians strutting and chest-puffing, the U.S. used the war as one reason for imposing a military governorship over California. It's time to celebrate California Admission Day! Wait, what's Admission Day? 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Their cases illustrate the ongoing tension between the suburban and the wild, and the tragicomic interactions that can ensue. Caring for the Wildlife That Stray Into the Suburbs 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z But, like her public persona, such gestures soon curdle and collapse, tragicomically or catastrophically, into their own cowardice, ignorance and lies. Trumpism isn't "history": But our blindness to history could lead to its comeback 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z It took long enough, but there might be no better year to embark on the project than apocalyptic 2021: Don DeLillo‘s cool, tragicomic and catastrophic novel “White Noise” will become a movie. Noah Baumach will adapt DeLillo's "White Noise"; Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig to star 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z His next collaboration with Hrabal, “Larks on a String” in 1969 was another tragicomic description of life under a totalitarian regime, this time under communism. Czech Oscar winning director Jiri Menzel dies at age 82 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z There is a tragicomic disconnect between the way these men believe they look, and the way that reasonable people perceive them. Whose alpha male is this? Donald Trump and America's sad, failed model of masculinity 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z A whimsical sort of history is being written minute by minute on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok, while late night comedy is, as usual, tragicomic. TV already adapted to coronavirus. Does it have the guts to show what comes next? 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z It’s absurd, he writes, and its absurdity “should lead us not to despair but to a tragicomic redemption, a softening of the heart, a turning away from judgment and moralizing to joy and gratitude.” For locked-down high-schoolers, reading ‘The Plague’ is daunting, and then comforting 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z There’s something tragicomic about trying to see the bright side of coronavirus. Bog-standard genius: Banksy's rats show great artists shine in solitude 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The conference received immediate backlash that now seems tragicomically quaint. The Ivy League was first to cancel sports. Here’s what it says about when games might return. 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Recognizing this absurdity should lead us not to despair but to a tragicomic redemption, a softening of the heart, a turning away from judgment and moralizing to joy and gratitude. Opinion | Camus on the Coronavirus 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z What at first sounds like a low-tech scam — sketchy guy steals winning game pieces — unfolds as a complicated conspiracy full of absurd, tragicomic twists and colorful characters out of a Coen brothers caper. 'McMillions' isn't your usual true crime docuseries. Here's how they made it 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z I will never come around to finding the mistake tragicomic or charming. Letter of Recommendation: Framing 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Also, Passer gives a storyteller’s account as a witness to Czechoslovakia’s history — its tragicomic absurdity and stubborn humanity. Newsletter: Impeachment time draws nigh 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z From the tragicomic experience of seeing your mother’s body reflected back at you in the mirror, to the horror of dying hooked up to banks of machines in a hospital. Judy Chicago's extinction rebellion: 'I went face-to-face with a new horror' 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z There is something tragicomic about the Anti-Wife Guys and those who love them. The wives of the Internet don’t approve 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z “There was always something tragicomic to Prince Andrew’s trajectory,” says Catherine Mayer, the author of The Royal Family: Britain’s Resilient Monarchy, and the leader of the Women’s Equality party. The party prince: how Andrew got his bad reputation 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z What he catches so well is the desperation behind the grandeur, the tragicomic spectacle of an institution, and a people, laboring to believe in itself. How the Man Behind ‘The Crown’ Made the Monarchy Relevant Again 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Sweet revenge: In 2012, Funk set a Champions Tour record when he shot a tragicomic 12 on the par-3, 13th hole. Checking out the sights and sounds from first day of the Boeing Classic 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z This led to heated debates and some tragicomic scenes. Les Temps Modernes: Paris mourns passing of the intellectual left’s bible 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z Waller-Bridge’s ability to strip baroque emotional crises down to their tragicomic bone is second to none — as both writer and star, she is strategically honest and relentlessly lovable. ‘Fleabag’s’ soliloquy on menopause is the best three minutes of TV ever 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z “Or at least it was tragicomic until we found out about his association with Epstein, and then the comedy drained away.” The party prince: how Andrew got his bad reputation 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Such is the tragicomic funhouse logic of this sport: where the closer we approach the sorely needed clarity of a singular champion, the farther it seems we drift. Wilder, Joshua, Fury mark time amid lost heavyweight season 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z And it was plenty for Jane, too, as she told the tale of four seasons in the fast-paced, tragicomic monologue. ‘Jane the Virgin’: Watch the 7-minute monologue unpacking that Michael twist 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z But in this animal’s case, it took a tragicomic stunt to prove they were right to persist. Romeo, the last known frog of his kind, found a Juliet. Did the match save their species? 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z But Colman’s tragicomic performance as Queen Anne has made her the definite front-runner and potentially Lady Gaga’s stiffest competition come the Oscars when the two best-actress contenders will presumably go head to head. What to watch for at this Sunday’s Golden Globes 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Baba Segi’s role in the whole affair is almost incidental – the benign dictator in a state of emotional repression, his sexual endeavours are described in tragicomic detail. My year of reading African women, by Gary Younge 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Speaking as a friend, kind of: That tragicomic outcome threatens to undermine much of what the Democrats have apparently accomplished over the last two years, and should be avoided at all costs. First wave of 2020 panic: Is Biden vs. Bernie really the best Democrats can do? 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The command arrived like a tragicomic bolt from the big-food universe. Seed diversity is disappearing — and 3 chemical companies own more than half 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z The flap copy teases the book as “a tragicomic tale of Shakespearean proportions.” Lenny Dykstra Has More to Say 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z In a tragicomic photograph to be found on the internet, a hydrogen balloon lies sideways on the sea ice, somewhere north of Svalbard. Naked geology, dazzling light… my journey into the Arctic 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Regardless, it’s a tragicomic exploration of life and friendship through food, something every food writer wants to achieve, but Colwin truly pulled out of the bag. Top 10 lost women's classics 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z An indictment of an educational system that ignores sex to its peril, and the almost tragicomic consequences of such willful ignorance? Review | ‘On Chesil Beach,’ starring Saoirse Ronan, is a fascinating yet frustrating breakup tale 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Let's face it—a young child's life is full of micro tragicomic moments that might be worth recording, even if they produce brief bursts of tears. The "Clips" Camera Just Might Be the Weirdest Product Ever 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z A few years later, Forman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” — a tragicomic story of revolt and repression in a mental institution — won five Oscars, including those for best director and best picture. This week’s passages 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z “Dear old Vaughan Williams,” he said as we passed Gerald Kelly’s portrait of the composer in old age, with his immense jowls and tragicomic hearing aid. The Evolution of One of Fiction’s Gay Liberators 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The tragicomic figure is stuck between sobbing and laughing, and is equally perfect for expressing the soaring highs of life and the depressing lows. The Face with Tears of Joy emoji is the most popular, according to Apple 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z “Like the sign outside Fawlty Towers, the missing letters behind Theresa May are an emblem of a tragicomic farce. Who needs Basil’s hotel? We now have the Tory Party,” The Sun said in an editorial. After British PM May's speech fiasco, her party puzzles: Who next? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z That is one possible message of Kenzo’s campaign, which pays bittersweet homage to the tragicomic cinema of Federico Fellini. The apocalypse, clowns and cows: an art critic on the autumn fashion campaigns 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Critics lauded the tragicomic poignancy Mr. Landau brought to the role of a once-big star reduced to appearing in movies directed by the bizarrely inept Wood, often labeled the worst director of all time. Martin Landau, Oscar-winning actor who played heroes and villains, dies at 89 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z To be precise, he is talking about the ninth verse, which he wrote after trying to identify the source of his tragicomic worldview. Father John Misty: ‘I get sick pleasure out of reading about how much people hate me’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z His new Hollywood effort follows the title character on a series of tragicomic adventures. 'Wilson's' Daniel Clowes, patron saint of misfits and curmudgeons 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z “Like the sign outside Fawlty Towers, the missing letters behind Theresa May are an emblem of a tragicomic farce. Who needs Basil’s hotel? We now have the Tory Party,” The Sun said in an editorial. After British PM May's speech fiasco, her party puzzles: Who next? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Even the title of The American Dream: Pop to the Present has a savagely tragicomic ring to it now. Pop art's American dream is over – and a zombie culture has begun 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z His confession is fraught with irony and his history is tragicomic; unlike the refugees of “The Refugees,” he regards himself with the distance of self-loathing, for he has participated in assassinations while following orders. Refugees in America 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z You are in it together in his stories—writer, characters, readers—companions in tragicomic progress toward a kinship of suffering and enlightenment. William Trevor’s Endless Empathy 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z It has been a riveting few days in the tragicomic opera known as Bridgegate, now playing at the federal courthouse in Newark. Gov. Christie’s Shadow Over Bridgegate 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s a time-honored template, but one that nevertheless still works magic with the right actor and carefully balanced tragicomic tone as demonstrated with this Swedish submission for best foreign-language Oscar consideration. Swedish cranks surprised by life in tragicomic 'A Man Called Ove' 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Death is not to be laughed about, usually, but “Exit the King” is a tragicomic consideration of mortality that spins a good deal of absurd mirth from a grave subject. Review: A King’s Long Goodbye in Madison 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z In “White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race,” the Berkeley law professor Ian Haney López provides a tragicomic list of court rulings on racial identity, together with their legal rationales. The Old West’s Muslim Tamale King 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Which brings us to the tragicomic Oakland Raiders — the wanderlusts of the NFL — who have gone from the distant Al Davis “Just win, baby” days to the current Mark Davis 13-consecutive-non-winning-seasons era. The Raiders’ pursuit of a Las Vegas move is so terrible, it makes perfect sense 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z During the 21st century, the Knicks have operated as a tragicomic performance art troupe—often abysmal, seldom enjoyable, chronically maddening, reliably ludicrous. Let’s Sell New York With Phil Jackson 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Laux recalls the confusion this sowed, and the occasionally tragicomic results. A C.I.A. Grunt’s Tale of the Fog of Secret War 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z In April and May, the police occasionally visited the premises as a series of showdowns unfolded between the warring factions, producing tragicomic scenes. After Lawsuits, a Break-In and an Attempted Coup, a New York Korean Group Has a New President 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z “It is the tragicomic fate of us anti-Mafia prosecutors in Sicily,” she says in Italian. The 'Iron Prosecutor' Hunting the Godfather of Sicily 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z "Animals" was executive-produced by Mark and Jay Duplass, who created the equally micro but much, much funnier "Togetherness," in which Mark stars, while Jay plays Josh Pfefferman in the tragicomic brilliance of "Transparent." 'Animals' on HBO turns our furry friends into the obnoxious bro next-door 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z The brief, tragicomic tale is just 18 pages long, interspersed with reproductions of handwritten tweets. An Anonymous Satire of Silicon Valley Now Has a Publisher 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The film provides tragicomic commentary on European attitudes to the crisis, as well as the suffering of Syrians themselves. The sound and the fury: how Syria's rappers, rockers and writers fought back 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The media attention was new too, as newspapers from all over the world contacted the brotherhood for comments on the tragicomic event. Bearded Villains: 'A beard is not a fad. It’s not fashion. It’s a lifestyle.' 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z But the tragicomic tale of an investment banker struggling to rebuild his life won’t get any nominations this year. Your Thursday Briefing 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Kohan deserves all the credit in the world for writing such varied, tragicomic characters, and for keeping them dynamic even as she elevates her critique of the American prison system in season three. Orange Is the New Black's third season has a Piper problem 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Another summer rite, the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park, returns with a pair of Shakespeare’s late tragicomic concoctions. Summer Theatre Preview 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Schoenaerts, who is Belgian, can’t manage a proper West Country accent, but, then, nor can anyone else in the film; the rustic group on whom Hardy depends, as a tragicomic chorus, becomes a mere backdrop. To Save the World or to Trash It? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z He arrived in time to watch close up the tragicomic stumbling of this state’s governor, Mike Pence. A Gay Athlete Encounters Indiana Law in a Changing World 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Of course the gulf between desire and knowledge has long been a tragicomic staple. Being Melodramatic About College Student-Teacher Relationships 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z In “Abundance,” tragicomic undertones are showcased by Thompson’s effective guidance and spare settings. Theater Review: ‘Abundance’ is a tragicomic look at Old West 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z And the reflexive anti-Semites will, as always, abet this tragicomic farce. Israel’s unfair share of blame 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Auguste Mestral’s portrait of a newly sculpted Virgin and Child patiently awaiting placement in the façade of a restored Notre Dame cathedral injects a tragicomic note into an undertaking of great national pride. What Images of Construction and Destruction Teach Us About Photography 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Boasting serial narratives, tragicomic tales and a brilliant ensemble, it aired from 1981-87, reaping 26 Emmys and paving the way for the great dramas we’ve been watching ever since. 10 home-video releases to give for the holidays 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Boasting serial narratives, tragicomic tales and a brilliant ensemble, it aired from 1981-87, reaping 26 Emmys and paving the way for the great dramas we've been watching ever since. 10 home-video releases to give for the holidays 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z In their latest foray into the tragicomic, the Buffalo Bills dealt the Jets their seventh consecutive loss, by 43-23. Bills Extend Jets’ Skid as Michael Vick Replaces Geno Smith Again 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z The ultimately tragicomic White House tenure of Ms. Lewinsky echoes through some of the documents released on Friday. National Archives Releases More Clinton-Era Documents 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z This tragicomic novel describes a depressed dentist’s spiritual crisis when he’s drawn into an ancient religious controversy. Two Americans on Man Booker Prize shortlist Re “Catching Grief and More,” June 30: Yes, the goalkeeper is a tragicomic figure, and seemingly more so in Brazil. Letters to the Editor 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Vying for Egypt’s airwaves, for instance, is a tragicomic array of news purporting to expose the wickedness of foreigners, especially Western ones. The sphinx speaks 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z The unconfirmed but obvious origin of the troops creates a "tragicomic masquerade", media say. "Little green men" or "Russian invaders"? 2014-03-11T15:39:54Z As Cruz's comments illustrate, the abiding popular image of Neville Chamberlain remains that of a naive tragicomic figure clutching a worthless piece of paper inscribed with the legend "Peace for our time". Was Neville Chamberlain really a weak and terrible leader? 2013-09-30T10:00:55Z Some two years later, a series of administration fantasies and lies that, in retrospect, seem at best tragicomic ushered the United States into an invasion and occupation of Iraq. On Syria, it’s 9/12 all over again 2013-09-12T15:16:00Z What a tragicomic compound of jokers and clowns. Chelsea v Steaua Bucharest – live! 2013-03-14T19:05:00Z For the majority of the movie versions, the trick was to slightly expand this check list, find similarities between Hugo’s Paris and Charles Dickens’ tragicomic London, hit the major marks and skedaddle on out. Top 10 Les Mizzes Better Than the New Les Miz 2012-12-30T05:05:23Z It actually happened to on Thursday night, a sliver of tragicomic slapstick in what will be remembered as one of the ugliest moments in N.F.L. history. On Day After, Jets Reflect on Mesmerizing Defeat Against Patriots 2012-11-23T23:25:22Z It’s just the latest in a tragicomic series of largely self-inflicted wounds that have felled the tech giant. HP's Financial Mess Is Making Everyone Sorry 2012-11-20T20:07:53Z Last week's deceptively simple question "What does the brand-new Barclays Center look like?" unleashed a tsunami of tragicomic visions from the depths of the City Room readership's collective unconscious. City Room: The Barclays Center Is a Rorschach Test for Readers 2012-09-27T17:15:18Z The performances are strong enough to move the tragicomic plot along at a steady clip and put across much of the play’s wit and most of its heart. | Connecticut: ?The ____________ With the Hat? at TheaterWorks in Hartford ? Review 2011-11-19T06:00:28Z So the one-over eliminator, a tragicomic format, was required to decide which two teams would contest the final. Leicestershire storm to Twenty20 title 2011-08-27T22:38:16Z The best TV farewells are mostly business-as-usual — like the final "Mary Tyler Moore Show" — and not overwrought, overambitious detours, as in the melodramatic "MASH" swan song or the last, tragicomic episode of "Seinfeld." Rosenthal: Oprah's farewell stands out 2011-05-18T07:00:00Z Another in a long series of fascinating films coming out of contemporary Israel, "The Human Resources Manager" is a tragicomic, memorably gritty road movie with echoes of William Faulkner's great novel "As I Lay Dying." Israeli leader vows aggressive response to attacks 2011-03-23T20:15:00Z But ultimately, in its attempts to join the tragicomic ethnic pride canon of Bend It Like Beckham During My Big Fat Joy Luck Club Wedding, it’s a little incoherent. Fringe Festival Journal: A Muslim Woman in America, With Standup 2010-08-20T15:09:00Z The Rams also skipped a practice in favor of a movie, though nothing can match the tragicomic brilliance of their game film. Mike Tanier's Training Camp Tour 2010-08-13T19:54:00Z The tragicomic thing is the smile of the referee afterwards. World Cup 2010: Fifa 'very happy' with overall standard of referees 2010-06-21T16:49:00Z Robert Green's almost tragicomic error on Saturday evening in England's opening game of the World Cup was both symbolic and symptomatic of the strange demise of English goalkeeping. Robert Green must keep his eye off the ball 2010-06-13T18:30:00Z Bishop Babini's comments remind me of this tragicomic Jewish joke from the 1930s: A German Jew in Berlin sees a Jewish friend sitting on a park bench reading the anti-Semitic Nazi rag, Der Stürmer. Bishop blames Jews for child molestation scandal 2010-04-12T16:13:00Z Where Tiger's story is tragicomic, Henry's is simply tragic: Tiger lost millions in endorsement deals; Henry lost his life. 2009-12-18T19:52:00Z Then more and more evil reports began to arrive; at last, a tragicomic tale made the rounds—creating a sensation—of the newspapers, wherein his wife played an unenviable part. A Nobleman's Nest I will not dwell now upon the many tragicomic imbroglios, as I am partly ashamed of those times, and partly inclined to laugh at them. Without Dogma But this was after the tragicomic culmination had been reached, and the burnt rags of one of these too-frequently mendacious signals gone on a progress to Washington, like Cæsar’s body, arousing indignation where it came. A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Her huge legs bore her huge body, a tragicomic spectacle, across the street to her open door. Malcolm Written in a tragicomic style, it is very amusing. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism Above a lank, well-poised body clothed in the white tunic and trousers of a ship's officer, he recognised the tragicomic mask of the soi-disant Mr. Whitaker Monk. Alias the Lone Wolf It would obviously be unjust to judge the Holy Roman Empire of the first Otto by the tragicomic aberrations of his immediate successors. Medieval Europe He has also been known to describe leaving that home in tragicomic terms. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software Resuming our march, we next arrived at the Monkey Grove, which was the scene of the tragicomic adventure by which Fritz became the guardian of the orphan ape. Swiss Family Robinson It is a tragicomic drama in three acts, each winding up with a coup de th��tre, always the same and always foreseen. The French Revolution - Volume 2 |
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