Sentence examples for achieved tragic from inspiring English sources

J. Paul Getty III, who was a grandson of the oil baron once believed to be the richest man in the world and who achieved tragic notoriety in 1973 when he was kidnapped by Italian gangsters, died Saturday at his home near London.

In Doctor Faustus (published 1604), by the English dramatist Christopher Marlowe, Mephistopheles achieves tragic grandeur as a fallen angel, torn between satanic pride and dark despair.

Depardieu's performance doesn't achieve tragic grandeur but it is far more complex and moving than seemed remotely possible in the orgy scenes that open the movie.

The devil's intermediary in the play, Mephistopheles, achieves tragic grandeur in his own right as a fallen angel torn between satanic pride and dark despair.

Mahler's fourth, usually regarded as nearly classical in scale and reach, expanded to achieve tragic grandeur in Monday's impeccable performance.

Here, danced by Laëtitia Pujol, Odette is more like a figment of Siegfried's imagination than a doomed heroine, and so the idea of the corps de ballet of swans as an epic embodiment of her predicament never achieves tragic sweep.

Tennant's great achievement is to attract our sympathy to what the gardener calls a "wasteful king" who abuses power when he has it and who achieves tragic dignity only in his downfall.

So that baseball achieves the tragic vision that democracy evades".

Britten, too, allows him to achieve a tragic dimension.

Though this novel begins sparely, it achieves a tragic complexity.

"I suspect him of being wise, of having a vision that subtly and politely exceeds that of ordinary people... [the book] achieves a tragic synthesis... that makes little rational sense, but that reverberates powerfully in the mind".