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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a tragic note" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a somber or sorrowful aspect of a situation, event, or piece of writing. Example: "The film ended on a tragic note, leaving the audience in deep reflection."
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She started a gallery, which opened on a tragic note.
Here, Lewis sounds a tragic note: the more civilized a people, the more vulnerable.
It ends on a tragic note, but they manage to avoid easy cynicism or fashionable despair.
The opening prayer to Diana, goddess of the hunt, strikes a tragic note.
But the panegyric ends on a tragic note, as Hoxha reveals that Khruschev led the Soviet Union away from the Truth.
"We find it devastating and most unfortunate that after having this world-famous star Aaliyah and her crew select the Bahamas as their choice location for her latest video, the project has climaxed on such a tragic note," the Jamaican minister of tourism, Tommy Turnquest, said.
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A sense of nostalgia for a traditional world lost or for an ideal world gone wrong also gives a sometimes tragic note to Swift's indignation and suffuses Burke's complex literary output.
Bonhoeffer's life, which was filled with drama and ended on an extraordinarily tragic note, lends itself to chronology, leading the director to move the documentary on a steady, evenhanded course.
Hoping to end the evening on a slightly less tragic note, we decided to have a night cap at Pumps in Brooklyn.
That said, with Trump the phrase takes on a slightly more tragic note.
At this point the film becomes a cheerful, informative hagiography, whose only tragic note is the death of his daughter Catya from a drug overdose in 2002.
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