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Recent Examples of tragicomedy
If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
John Fawcett’s flawless tragicomedy is part satire, part splatter body-horror flick, part full-on monster movie, and complete heart.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
The Off-Broadway tragicomedy stars Driver as Strings McCrane, a country music icon who finds himself at a crossroads following the death of his mother.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for tragicomedy
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
John Fawcett’s flawless tragicomedy is part satire, part splatter body-horror flick, part full-on monster movie, and complete heart.
—EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
The Off-Broadway tragicomedy stars Driver as Strings McCrane, a country music icon who finds himself at a crossroads following the death of his mother.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tragicomedy
Noun
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He will next be seen in the British comedy horror film The Scurry.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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And as their characters get pulled deeper into the criminal underworld, the comedy heightens in direct proportion to the violence.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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There was a lot of love for The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s extraordinary shout-out to both 1950s wide-screen melodramas and 1970s moody epics, which was not a surprise.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Feb. 2025
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The film teases a will-they-or-won’t-they frisson about the two, and occasionally taps a lush score that wafts in the romantic melancholy of a 1960s American melodrama (making one wonder if the score from May December is starting to have its first, unironic imitations).—
Nicolas Rapold,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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In the first section of the book, Franklin repeatedly brings historical analysis, primary sources and Anne Frank’s writing into juxtaposition with each other in a way that both illuminates Anne Frank as an individual and the larger tragedy of the Holocaust.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2025
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The case was the first to establish a link between toxic waste in the atmosphere and birth defects, and the show follows the story of four mothers dealing with the tragedy.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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About Town Indie Rock As Father John Misty, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Tillman stages albums as little psychodramas.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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The thought that Sam Riley’s Tom might turn out to be Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity or John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice is tantalizing but gradually appears to be more like teasing misdirection as the movie shifts into psychodrama gear.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
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The Basics On the original Smash, the Marilyn musical is called Bombshell.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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Life imitated art on the set of The Sound of Music, the beloved musical that debuted in movie theaters on March 2, 1965.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
26 Feb. 2025
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In the film, the group of actors are working on a time-traveling musical comedy, which honestly looks rather fun.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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Eight years later, Shepard played Presley’s business partner’s wife in the ’60s buddy musical comedy.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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And in some of his greatest on-screen work ever, Hackman depicted the resentful, acidic patriarch in the Wes Anderson dramedy The Royal Tenenbaums.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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The holiday dramedy toes a careful line between dry humor and themes of mental health and personal loss, and no one does it better in the cast than Randolph.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds.—
Thomas Curran,
Time,
8 Aug. 2023
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Suzie Miller constructs her monodrama at the intersection of #MeToo and British justice, and though the dramatist appends a superfluous moral to the story, the proceedings amount to a virtuosic, blow-by-blow account of a process stacked against female victims.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
17 May 2022
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“Tragicomedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tragicomedy. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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