seriocomic
Americanadjective
adjective
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Her most recent book, “Colored Television,” is a seriocomic exploration of race and creativity and the haves and have-nots of Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi charmed audiences at Sundance 2020 with “The Mole Agent,” her sly, seriocomic documentary about suspicious goings-on at a Santiago nursing home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Instead, it's a highly stylized and fictionalized seriocomic mystery thriller that employs a slew of heavy hitters, including Jennifer Coolidge, Mia Farrow, Margo Martindale and Richard Kind.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2022
Hanif’s deftness at this kind of seriocomic storytelling has often, almost reflexively now, gotten him compared to Joseph Heller.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2019
A camp, recovering from one of these riotous revels, presents a seriocomic spectacle; black eyes, broken heads, lack-lustre visages.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de
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