Sentence examples for a tragic view of from inspiring English sources

Having a tragic view of life is compatible with having a positive view of our worldly duties.

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

General Motors will run one commercial, perhaps, for people with a tragic view of life and another for people with a comic view of life.

Influenced by the Spanish masters, especially Francisco de Goya, Gutiérrez Solana painted a tragic view of urban life, scenes of grief and horror rendered in sombre earth tones and blood reds.

A three-part collage of sounds and images with a tragic view of history, it is a pointed exercise in word and image association whose first and best section takes place aboard a cruise ship.

Such optimistic, heroic attitudes may seem incompatible with a tragic view of the world; indeed, Corneille provides the key to his originality in substituting for the traditional Aristotelian emotions of pity and fear a new goal of admiration.

To many British eyes, both president and country are too bombastic, myopically self-assured, lacking a properly tragic view of life, and sometimes emotionally incontinent.

Churn yourself up with all these things so that when you come to the theater you've lived all day long.' " At the same time he has a partly tragic view of life and his profession.

To many British eyes, both president and country are too bombastic, myopically self-assured, lacking a properly tragic view of life and sometimes emotionally incontinent: Mr Bush's allusion at Camp David to the death of Mr Brown's baby daughter a tragedy, the president said, which had "strengthened [Mr Brown's] soul"—struck some listeners as unduly intrusive.

In general, Augustine did not disparage the emotions as such, despite an increasingly tragic view of the human condition over the course of his career.

James Scott, a former colleague of Graeber's at Yale, takes a more limited and tragic view of the possibilities anthropology can offer social movements.