Definitions
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- noun A
seriocomic production.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a comedy with serious elements or overtones
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Examples
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What hasn't fared so well is the seriocomedy, a story of real people with real problems that also contains its share of laughs -- the drama, essentially, that wears its seriousness lightly.
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In 2009, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" director Judd Apatow faltered trying a seriocomedy with "Funny People."
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In the past six months, nearly every attempt at the seriocomedy has struggled, certainly with audiences and sometimes with critics.
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If you were a studio executive, you could hardly be blamed if you read a good script for a seriocomedy and promptly threw it on the reject pile.
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The seriocomedy has never been easy creative ground for directors.
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But when the seriocomedy works, it usually works exceptionally well.
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As Eric McCormack told us last week, the chances of a second season of TNT's ad-company seriocomedy
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In the eccentric seriocomedy Sunshine Cleaning, set in the least picturesque parts of Albuquerque, N.M.,
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In the eccentric seriocomedy Sunshine Cleaning, set in the least picturesque parts of Albuquerque, N.M.,
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Happiness is one of the most enigmatic and oftentimes the most elusive of all human qualities, and Leigh's seriocomedy explores eternal optimism through Poppy as his ongoing canon of odes to working-class leading quiet lives of discomfort and disconsolateness.
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