In both that a d "Open City," she demonstrated the combination, which characterizes so many of her countrymen, of an acute sense of tragedy with a feeling for broad comedy.
The historical limitations of Nietzsche's theory of tragedy become acute when it comes to the question of the possibility of a recuperation of the tragic form in modern theatre.
The tragedy of acute and chronic arsenic poisoning from contamination of water in Bangladesh, West Bengal, and elsewhere in the world has recently been described (Mead 2005).
Penguin describes Iron Gustav as a classic example of Fallada's gift for acute observation, capturing the joys and tragedies of ordinary lives: "a vivid family chronicle" from the first world war to Hitler's takeover.
By the end of this section, Ross has shaped the facts of the Sheppard case into a psychologically acute and structurally coherent novella — an American tragedy in which love reawakens too late.
And his efforts to satirize the sort of media feeding frenzies that almost routinely ensue after tragedies today are neither revealing nor acute.
With the closure of the ILF, and the acute lack of funding for adult social care, the tragedy is that today's severely disabled young people are unlikely to achieve what Campbell, Maynard, Araniello, Basnett and many others have achieved.
As in the plays of the Scandinavian dramatists, Chekhov's vision of this social evil is penetrating and acute, but the powerful, resistant counterthrust that makes for tragedy is lacking.
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01116076 The use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) has been likened to the tragedy of the commons--an event where individuals who acted locally for their own benefit inadvertently contributed to catastrophe at the ecological level [ 1].
Kermode takes us through the major tragedies and the last plays, paying very acute attention to questions like these.
