10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRAGICOMICALLY»
Discover the use of
tragicomically in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tragicomically and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Theater Outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy
Even Dionysius' death was grist for the anecdotal mill, since he died immediately
after his Lenaia victory (tragicomically) from binge drinking at his victory party;
Diodorus Siculus (15.74) claims that his death thus fulfilled an oracle that foretold
...
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Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early ...
It is in this reassociation that the play makes use of the Tunisian location in order
to tragicomically address and resolve the problems of loss and excess in a way
that does not require putting a halt to circulation. Building on Keir Elam's reading
...
As a Chinese American boy works at his parents' hotel renting out rooms to johns and hookers, he engages in a quest to lose his virginity while struggling with concepts of friendship, family, class, race, sexuality, and self-worth.
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King Larry: The Life and Ruins of a Billionaire Genius
"The story of DHL co-founder and billionaire Larry Hillblom, who disappeared, leaving behind an international fiasco that's still unraveling today"--
Poetry. "Tender Buttons meets Two Serious Ladies: in this beautiful debut, Ellen Baxt deftly and musically portrays the manifold opportunities for disorientation that obtain only when one is dwelling, for the first time, in a foreign tongue ...
Another patch of the very brlghtest purple sewn into the sometimes rather
threadbare stuiT or groundwork of the story is the scene in' which the dissolution
of a ruined household is so tragicomically set before us in the breaking up of the
...
ster; nowhere have the people appeared to me so unfortunate, so thoroughly
enslaved to life, as in New York. And furthermore, nowhere have I seen them so
tragicomically self-satisfied as in this huge phantasmagoria of stone, iron and
glass, ...
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A New Universal, Technological, Etymological, and ...
Pertaining TRAGICOMICAL, traj-e-kom'e-kal,/ or partaking of a mixture of grave
and comic scenes. TRAGICOMICALLY, traj-e-kom'e-kal-le, ad. In a tragicomical
manner. TRAGICTJS, traj'e-kns, t. In Anatomy, » muscle of triangular form, arising
...
Another patch of the very brightest purple sewn into the sometimes rather
threadbare stuff or groundwork of the story is the scene in which the dissolution of
a ruined household is so tragicomically set before us in the breaking up of the ...
William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart,
1902
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A complete dictionary of the English language: both with ...
TRAGICOMICAL, tradzh'-y-k6m"- y"-kel. a. Relating to tragicomedy ; consisting of
a mixture of mirth with sorrow. TRAGICOMICALLY, tradzh'-y- k6m"-^-kel-y\ ad. In
a tragicomical manner. ToTRAJECT, tri-dzhekt'. v.a. To cast through, to throw.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRAGICOMICALLY»
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tragicomically is used in the context of the following news items.
Can the Middle East tackle Islamist militancy?
If you watch Saudi television, as I sometimes do, you will quickly realise that Saudi Arabia is tragicomically caught in the huge gap between the image it tries to ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
'Among the Ten Thousand Things,' by Julia Pierpont
Slick, charming and tragicomically self-centered 55-year-old Jack was quick on his feet when Deb overheard him talking on the phone to his much younger ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
JOOST LAGENDIJK
Forgetting -- tragicomically -- that the most successful countries in Europe, with respect to their economy and democracy, like Germany, the Scandinavian ... «Today's Zaman, May 15»
(Deborah Boardman) Deborah Boardman's powerful display at ESS
They come third from Boardman, whose artwork has for the past two decades swirled tragicomically around dreams and memories, community and nature, ... «Chicago Tribune, May 15»
Quicksand review: Steve Toltz lets rip with wit and cleverness
Indeed, the novel itself is purportedly the result of mediocre cop and wannabe novelist Liam's realisation that his oldest friend, a relentlessly, tragicomically ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
Cornel West Indirectly Responds to Dyson's Biting Op-Ed
He also says that West has "become tragicomically good at—playing an unintentional caricature of his identity," referencing some of West's TV and movie ... «NBCNews.com, Apr 15»
Michael Eric Dyson Delivers Scathing Critique Of Cornel West
There he is in The Matrix sequels, doing something he's become tragicomically good at—playing an unintentional caricature of his identity. Michael Eric Dyson's ... «Hip-Hop Wired, Apr 15»
Your Best Bet at Tribeca This Year: Avoid Celebrity Fare
Flexing more avant-garde muscles, the improvised docudrama Stranded in Canton places a fictional Congolese dreamer in a very real China to tragicomically ... «Village Voice, Apr 15»
Too many bad apples: Mayor de Blasio's Renewal Schools have a …
Tragicomically, it grades four in five of the teachers at these failing schools to be effective or highly effective. The clustering of weak instructors means that ... «New York Daily News, Apr 15»
Take Your Burning Rage from Yesterday's Traffic Mess and Fire It …
The traffic was terrifically, tragicomically bad: People abandoned their cars for bike share and arrived at their destinations minutes later, the Sounders ... «TheStranger.com, Mar 15»