31. Nothing changes, which is both the strength of the tragicomic drama and its modern-day weakness. 32. She's our tragicomic touchstone, looking for a reason to love and a reason to live. 33. She pulls examples from a mental catalog of tragicomic errors that have marred well-intentioned aid operations. 34. The tragicomic element in his writing has earned Saunders comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut, whose work inspired Saunders. 35. The sequelae include guilt, a suicide attempt and an attempted strangulation-- all played for tragicomic effect. 36. Unfortunately, major league baseball has provided too many guffaws and not enough solutions to its increasingly tragicomic situation. 37. Awkward and tragicomic situations occur as most of the characters fail to connect with each other and behave properly. 38. In this way he repeated, in an infamous, or tragicomic way, the gesture of Tadeusz Rejtan. 39. In the tragicomic extortion of the rabbis, though, a religious ritual had been treated as something to barter. 40. He arranged a 30-minute, statewide telecast, but technological problems turned the program into a tragicomic disaster.
