tragi-comical

• “I could have just cited the book's title and left it at that, a title written in 18th-century style for whatever reason: "LOSING IT—in which an aging professor laments his shrinking BRAIN, which he flatters himself formerly did him Noble Service, a Plaint, tragi-comical, historical, vengeful, sometimes satirical and thankful in six parts, if his Memory does yet serve.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Raging Against Aging

• “Having been repeatedly denied a working visa to provide direct aid to Burma (aka Myanmar) as an international relief group (whose name, Operation USA, leaves the tragi-comical government of Burma unenthusiastic about my prowling about their beautiful country looking for health care projects in need of assistance), I travel instead to Mae Sot on the Thailand-Burma border.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard Walden: An Unchanging Burma vs. An Immovable Force for Good

• “But faith, Jack, thou art such a tragi-comical mortal, with thy leaden aspirations at one time, and thy flying hour-glasses and dreaming terrors at another, that, as”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “Italian for beginners is a Dogme style film,really cute, funny and, tragi-comical, about a group of "misfits", as play.com describes them, taking an Italian class together.”

  A red paper clip for a house?

• “For the first time that night, unreasoning anger mastered him: anger against himself; against the whole tragi-comical scheme of things: against the man whose dead sins he was called upon to expiate in his own living flesh.”

  The Great Amulet

• “Of course, in her personal elucidation this tragi-comical history proved altogether unlike what it had been in reality.”

  Yama: the pit

• “Ashburton, exclaimed to Carlyle, with a tragi-comical look, Gad”

  New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

• “The girl's life had presented itself to me as a tragi-comical adventure, the saddest thing on earth, slipping between frank laughter and unabashed tears.”

  Chance A Tale in Two Parts

• “Marmion's three plays, of which the best known is _The Antiquary_, are fair but not excessively favourable samples of the favourite play of the time, a rather broad humour-comedy, which sometimes conjoined itself with, and sometimes stood aloof from, either a romantic and tragi-comical story or a downright tragedy.”

  A History of Elizabethan Literature

• “What a tragi-comical arrangement it is that in this world of ours everybody is laughing at everybody else!”

  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician

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