Sentence examples for faintly tragic from inspiring English sources
Watching him perform the brilliant and sadly appropriate 'Losing the Will to Survive' to an audience easily contained by 34 deck-chairs and 3 picnic tables - one punter is actually reading Time Out - is faintly tragic.
Not dissimilarly, "The Way You Do at the End of Plays" frames the tussle between life's everyday froth and those near-indescribable feelings given voice through art in the faintly tragic meeting of two estranged lovers.
Key man Bruce Ogilvie – who refused an interview with VICE – cut a faintly tragic figure, clad in shabby tartan as he heckled career politicians.
Cole's tragic, but buoyant and even faintly amused vision of Nigeria as incurable in its disasters, absurd and beyond serious help is not going to please politicians, who must believe that Something Should Be Done.
But for the character to gain the necessary stature — to not seem faintly ludicrous — we need to feel that, for all his baser qualities, Solness is a figure with a certain tragic nobility: an artist whose dedication to pursuing his ideals has destroyed his own happiness as effectively as it has the lives of those in his orbit.
It is about an opaque and tragic love affair between a young Aboriginal man and woman in a remote community in Alice Springs: a bleak, faintly Beckettian landscape where life rolls on, uneventfully, but is then punctured with acts of brutality.
Lane looked faintly interrupted.
Prof. Richard Dawkins smiles faintly.
Barnes looks faintly harassed.
