Sentence examples for a tragic subject from inspiring English sources
They are all characterized by an extraordinary economy, power, and vividness and by a tragic subject matter in which men are driven to the limits of their endurance by the violence of other men or of nature.
The Holocaust remains a looming, tragic subject, but that doesn't stop artist after artist from exploiting it while supposedly invoking themes of trauma and collective memory.
The San are a tragic case.
The book and film boosted Murdoch's recognition factor, but did they really help her reputation as a novelist – a maker of fates, rather than the tragic subject of her own?
Despite its tragic subject matter, one of the most intriguing paintings is an 18th-century landscape of episodes from Jesus' Passion acted out by doll-like figures within a circular stockade made of pointy wooden pickets.
(That other favorite tragic subject).
He swore fealty to "timeless and tragic" subject matter.
As in the stories, Englander's approach to his dependably tragic subject remains dedicatedly ironic.
Given its contentious and tragic subject matter, the opera is probably doomed to provoke controversy, as Michael Steinberg suggested in liner notes for the 1992 recording.
Heartbroken by the loss of her son Andrew to suicide, Esmeralda is committed to bringing awareness and understanding to this tragic subject.
He praised its ability to discuss tragic subjects in a way that made readers laugh - a form of expression, he said, that the attackers hoped to eliminate.
