Sentence examples for well tragic from inspiring English sources

Her novels have an underlying black humour that allows catastrophes to be comic as well tragic.

Jim Shelley of the Daily Mirror labelled Poppy the "Optimist of the week" for her line "I bet it's really nice here when they ain't having a funeral", and "Delicate flower of the week" for her "That is so well tragic innit?" when commenting on Tommy Moon's death.

Friends and colleagues find it mystifying as well as tragic.

His death, of pancreatic cancer, on October 23rd was untimely as well as tragic.

Betrayed by Britain, France, Hungary, Poland and others, it had no chance.That is topical as well as tragic.

Well, how tragic is it that that's what someone regards as the height of security or safety?

This is comic as well as tragic to me, and I guess the challenge is to find some range.

Her nearest local relative, perhaps, is Richard Ford in his Bascombe novels, with that funny, dark, vituperative voice that serves equally well for tragic and comic moments.

"I thought in the way she moves through the world that Albert had a comic side to her as well as tragic.

Col. Vernie L. Reichling Jr., commander of the corps' Memphis District, said the blast was successful, calling it "historic as well as tragic".

Their story is short and bittersweet as well as tragic (a problem Walt Disney solved by merging it with Hansel and Gretel and dreaming up a happy ending).