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Mr. Crocker’s relationship with his mother is a hard-to-overlook subtext in this sometimes difficult, but strategically untragic film.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2012

It was all very ordinary and untragic, and Maggie had had but little time to consider the events on which her subconscious attention still dwelt.

From The Necromancers by Benson, Robert Hugh

In the dining-room Annie was laying the table for dinner, and a most untragic odor of new garden peas began to steal along the hall.

From The Breaking Point by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

It was the tragic turning-point of the French monarch's life, the not wholly untragic turning-point of larger destinies, ancient chivalry being admitted unsuccessful and wholly out of date.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter