tragi-comical

I could have just cited the book's title and left it at that, a title written in 18th-century style for whatever reason: "LOSING IT—in which an aging professor laments his shrinking BRAIN, which he flatters himself formerly did him Noble Service, a Plaint, tragi-comical, historical, vengeful, sometimes satirical and thankful in six parts, if his Memory does yet serve."

Raging Against Aging Henry Allen 2011

Having been repeatedly denied a working visa to provide direct aid to Burma (aka Myanmar) as an international relief group (whose name, Operation USA, leaves the tragi-comical government of Burma unenthusiastic about my prowling about their beautiful country looking for health care projects in need of assistance), I travel instead to Mae Sot on the Thailand-Burma border.

Richard Walden: An Unchanging Burma vs. An Immovable Force for Good 2010

Having been repeatedly denied a working visa to provide direct aid to Burma (aka Myanmar) as an international relief group (whose name, Operation USA, leaves the tragi-comical government of Burma unenthusiastic about my prowling about their beautiful country looking for health care projects in need of assistance), I travel instead to Mae Sot on the Thailand-Burma border.

Richard Walden: An Unchanging Burma vs. An Immovable Force for Good 2010

But faith, Jack, thou art such a tragi-comical mortal, with thy leaden aspirations at one time, and thy flying hour-glasses and dreaming terrors at another, that, as

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Italian for beginners is a Dogme style film,really cute, funny and, tragi-comical, about a group of "misfits", as play.com describes them, taking an Italian class together.

A red paper clip for a house? magnio 2005

For the first time that night, unreasoning anger mastered him: anger against himself; against the whole tragi-comical scheme of things: against the man whose dead sins he was called upon to expiate in his own living flesh.

The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

Of course, in her personal elucidation this tragi-comical history proved altogether unlike what it had been in reality.

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

Ashburton, exclaimed to Carlyle, with a tragi-comical look, Gad

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

The girl's life had presented itself to me as a tragi-comical adventure, the saddest thing on earth, slipping between frank laughter and unabashed tears.

Chance Joseph Conrad 1890

The girl's life had presented itself to me as a tragi-comical adventure, the saddest thing on earth, slipping between frank laughter and unabashed tears.

Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890