Sentence examples for a tragic element from inspiring English sources

"We love a tragic element and an uplifting element," Roggeveen said.

She brought a tragic element to Fraulein Schneider, a lonely German woman who ultimately rejects a Jewish suitor out of a kind of cowardice: Fraulein Schneider cannot face the brutal consequences of marrying a Jew in Nazi Germany.

The story has a tragic element as well; Berenson was a passenger on the American Airlines flight that was crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11; Perkins died in 1992.

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But the deaths of 17 in three terror attacks in Paris last week -- 12 at the magazine's offices, plus the killing of a police officer Thursday and the murder of four people at a kosher grocery Friday -- introduce a more tragic element to the current moment, and it remains to be seen how the show will choose to pay tribute to it.

But where Kieslow ski's profoundly humanistic films debated the existence of God and Mr. Egoyan's movies intuit a mysterious, often tragic element of fate at work in human affairs, Mr. Tykwer's coolly crafted films bespeak a certain icy detachment.

Actually, it's more of a cartoon except for the deeply tragic element.

Along with possessing a level of frank transparency, the statement itself highlights the most tragic element of Bergling's passing: he was a young person making music for young people, his opportunity to further grow cut short even as the memories he soundtracked live on.].

Certainly, most Americans just have to walk down the street of their urban neighborhood or drive out to the edge of town to see that chronic homelessness is still a tragic human element of this country's landscape.

And in some sense, even when you have a bitter, tragic poem, faith is expressed simply in the full recognition of the tragic element.

So that's another way of emphasizing the tragic element, right?