Sentence examples for essentially tragic from inspiring English sources

As do most of her works, the novel reflects Desai's essentially tragic view of life.

We are invited to regard Amélie as an essentially tragic figure.

This is the derivation of so much of the exuberance in what is an essentially tragic novel.

More than that, it illustrates the essentially tragic nature of Pimp C's decline, which is in itself revealing of hip-hop's current woes.

The case is "essentially tragic and has psychological subtleties to which it would take a Balzac to do justice," James wrote.

Eastwood's vision of social bonds is essentially tragic, and he infuses the movie with a harrowing, hectically subjective tone to match.

"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically".

Browsing around, I found a fancy copy of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," and I couldn't stop reading its opening line: "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically".

It goes like this: 'Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.' The funny thing about this is that nobody (correct me if I'm wrong) has ever accused DH Lawrence of being a barrel of laughs.

The hero: She-Hulk The Hulk got some of the biggest laughs in Avengers Assemble but Bruce Banner is essentially a tragic figure, a man who cannot control the monster inside him.

Cave satirises that reductive strain of warped maleness with some glee and an undercurrent of comic disgust, but The Death of Bunny Munro is essentially a tragic tale; a novel that is by turns sick and funny, and sometimes both simultaneously, but that moves inexorably, determinedly, towards its terrible end.