seriocomic
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More of a recognition reel for a fan convention than a movie, it signals a career that’s traveled far from its first evocation of a raw seriocomic intelligence about small-to-bursting lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
That season, another bleak and sometimes seriocomic skewering of contemporary society and technology, featured Anthony Mackie, Miley Cyrus, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Topher Grace, Andrew Scott, and more.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2020
Yet it also provided a fitting seriocomic role for someone whose chameleonic character gifts had already proven to be a piquant blend of the eccentric and the engaging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2020
And as the characters wander from Portofino to Rome and Venice — eating and flirting and getting drunk and getting sunburned — the book becomes, by its own inclination, a seriocomic picaresque.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019
The seriocomic periodical Punch, I remember, made a happy use of it in the political cartoon.
From The War of the Worlds by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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