Sentence examples for called tragedy from inspiring English sources

"The imitation of an action", is what Aristotle called tragedy.

Donations of at least $18m, in what Vanity Fair called "tragedy money", have flowed in from supporters since.

They're based on the central figure, and things happen to that person, and they're called tragedy because they're extremely sad.

Mr. Szufnarowski, a concert promoter and member of an all-metal Bee Gees tribute band called Tragedy, and Mr. Joseph, of the hardcore band the Cro-Mags, have been leading walking tours lately into a musical world where you didn't need a degree from Juilliard, though you might have, later in life, needed a hearing aid.

Heller and Eisenberg argued that biomedical innovation has become susceptible to a so called "tragedy of the anticommons," which can emerge when each of the multiple owners of innovations has a right to exclude others from a scarce resource [ 1, 7].

Although the annals of the drama from Dryden onward are filled with plays called tragedies by their authors, the form as it has been defined here went into an eclipse during the late 17th, the 18th, and the early 19th centuries.

Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories.

(Kiernan notes that the duel was strongest in places and times where tragic drama was also flourishing; Leigh calls tragedy and duelling "neighboring pursuits").

Tragedies of the commons are often better described as what I will call tragedies of the meadow (see: Ostrom 1990: chapter 1).

They didn't even call it tragedy, since tragedy was a thing that happened to rich folks with something to lose.

Together, those factors result in what American ecologist Garrett Hardin in 1968 called "the tragedy of the commons".