Example Sentences

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“Raising Raffi” is strewn with such moments, in which Gessen’s try-hard work ethic seems so tragicomically mismatched to the project that he wonders if it’s worth trying at all.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022

The conference received immediate backlash that now seems tragicomically quaint.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2020

We had a brief discussion of where our relationship was heading, but we were both so distracted by the tragicomically poor timing that we could not concentrate on the conversation.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2016

That outlandish, exuberant chronicle of a tragicomically doomed family won its author the worldwide acclaim he continues to receive.

From Time Magazine Archive