Sentence examples for an impending tragedy from inspiring English sources

Every day, concerned New Yorkers contact the A.S.P.C.A. to express their fears of an impending tragedy arising from the carriage horses being in congested traffic.

Though the death had been foretold in advertisements, which announced an impending tragedy that would change things forever, few seemed prepared for the bloody eventuality of Flower's end, her tiny head swollen from infection, the melancholy music that accompanied her never-to-be-resumed breaths.

There's a moment, early in the film, in which Eastwood cues, in a glance, the impending tragedy: a very brief shot of Chris, seen through a doorway, heading to rodeo grounds, which borrows from the final shot of John Ford's "The Searchers".

There's a moment, early in the film, in which Eastwood cues, in a glance, the impending tragedy: a very brief shot of Chris, seen through a doorway, heading to rodeo grounds, which borrows from the final shot of John Ford's "The Searchers". It's just a touch, but it's a brilliant one Eastwood marks Chris, from the start, with his coming isolation.

Even "Good Life," the rare unambiguously joyous song in Mr. West's catalog, was extended past its joyous core, dragged into an extended version where timpani-like rumblings gave it an air of impending tragedy.

Throughout Mowlam's life, there was always an element of impending tragedy just beneath the surface.

As the gray sludge of sadness and apathy washed away, I emerged from a spiral of impending tragedy.

A conjugal scene between the young lovers enacts their impending tragedy as an all-too-stylized erotic allegory.

In the opening bars, the weight of impending tragedy is conveyed in a leitmotif so redolent of Brahms' First Symphony – in shape, scoring, and attitude – that the audience is not so much gripped by its power as bemused by its similarity.

And though we are all, at times, like silly navel-gazing teenagers, his fading is a reminder that we should not wait for impending tragedy to express our appreciation for the people who shape us.

Tom Putnam *87, the director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, finds such events particularly poignant evocations of a man at the height of his powers, unaware of his impending tragedy.