1. This case is not without its tragi-comic precedent.

2. This is Our Youth is a tragicomic portrayal of youth on the brink of adulthood and reveals the ache at the heart of the slacker generation.

3. He is a tragicomic character trapped in a maze of misrepresentations, and also a jerk.

4. IN 2002 a bitter and tragicomic story of the Bosnian war won an Oscar for best foreign film.

5. Dark comedy refers rather to the tragicomic form in which laughter and despair are inextricably mingled.

6. The curtain should now fall on the tragicomic reign of today's Silvio, too.

7. I could list for you a tragicomic litany of all the things I was once mistakenly completely certain about,(http:///tragicomic.html) and I'm sure you can do the same.

8. Reading the files of the Wasp network reveals a poignant tragicomic coda to the cold war.

9. But it is also rare for the problems to be as grave as those left by Mr Berlusconi's tragicomic administration.

10. It is that, odd as it now seems, history could one day come to regard Gordon Brown as a rather good prime minister, a much better one than he has been reckoned during his tragicomic premiership.

11. Compared with such countries as Switzerland or Holland , the United States is poorly equipped to teach foreign languages, often with deplorable, and sometimes even tragicomic, results.

12. His works are unified by an acute awareness of the tragicomic, often conjuring up visions of childhood and collective memory in a space where the modern and the traditional collide.

13. Mallory described the team's findings as "Gary Larson events" in reference to the tragicomic nature of Larson's The Far Side.

14. It took me about an hour to figure out what actually happened in the tragicomic affair, and I felt about 10 IQ points lighter afterward.

15. For years my love life continued to be one long tragicomic novel.