Sentence examples for black tragedy from inspiring English sources

Each short chapter deals mimetically with different aspects of these - from wry social comedy to black tragedy to intertextual hilarity.

They swoop in, give a speech, maybe march a mile or two, take some viral social media pictures and then move on to the next national black tragedy.

Directed by the Kathryn Bigelow, an Oscar-winning white woman, Detroit was a decidedly black tragedy told with a white comprehension.

It's frustrating to watch white musicians be so ready to have legions of Black dancers/singers behind them, work with Black producers, sing about how "we" do and then be nowhere to be found when a Black tragedy takes the national stage.

But the problem is that this is an awfully challenging musical to mount: a mix of peppy, melting-pot comedy and pitch-black tragedy, with a large cast.

This is Mickey B, the Educational Shakespeare Company's adaptation of the jet-black tragedy Macbeth, shot in HMP Maghaberry in Northern Ireland.

The Wash U student protests have been raising the ante for years -- I've watched with amazement, over the last decade, as I've been chronicling Peabody violations around the world -- including the Black Mesa tragedy, which I consider one of the worst human rights and environmental disasters in American history.

The title of Black's tragedy-strewn first novel barely hints at the litany of danger and misfortune on the menu: burning curtains, "dead snakes dangling from trees" and an ice-slick roadway, to name just a few.

Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks.

But, apart from that, this show, called "Journey to the South," was a big, corny, everyone-together allegory about the heart's progression from "happiness" (travel clothes, high spirits) to "tragedy" (black gowns, prie-dieux) to "passion" (red dresses, major stamping).

It's a delicate story to tell and Linklater does a good job of balancing the black comedy with tragedy, smartly leaving some things unspelled out – namely, whether Tiede and Nugent's relationship was ever more than platonic and why Tiede stayed friends with Nugent when she abused him so much.