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单词 tragic-comical
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tragic-comical
b. In combination with another adjective, with the sense ‘tragic and ——’, as tragic-comical, tragic-humorous, tragic-ironic, etc. Cf. tragi- comb. form.
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1768 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. (ed. 2) III. 107 These tragic-comical spectacles, though they amused and affected in a certain manner the gazing populace, [etc.].
1839 W. Irving Mountjoy in Knickerbocker Mag. Nov. 412 Whenever my father looked me in the face, it was with such a tragic-comical leer.
1865 R. Tubbs tr. J. Schlüter Gen. Hist. Music xii. 193 These three grandest of Mozart's symphonies (the first lyrical, the second tragic-pathetic, and the third of ethical import).
1876 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 516/2 An event once seeming to possess all the magnitude of the tragic-heroic, now dwindled into melodrama.
1902 ‘G. F. Monkshood’ & G. Gamble R. Kipling (ed. 3) 155 Some side scene..of the great tragic-ironic.
1906 Daily Chron. 13 Mar. 3/4 The punishing, in a tragic-humorous manner, of a rascally set of owners.
1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 202/2 He would rush to the door with a tragic-comic exclamation in Italian.
1958 L. W. Lindt tr. B. Walter G. Mahler iii. 116 In his First and Fifth symphonies, the funeral march carries a singular, tragic-ironic meaning.
1980 D. G. Coleman Chaste Muse vii. 94 The fatal hamartia in the tragic-epic sonnets.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 5 May 162/2 A bisexual Buddhist vampire..and the ghosts of three murdered lesbian nuns are among the dramatis personae of Blair Fell's tragic-camp serial comedy.
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