Sentence examples for form of tragedy from inspiring English sources

— Rena, Monrovia, Ca .… A universally armed citizenry is a form of "tragedy of the commons".

It's a tragedy, and comedy is just another form of tragedy.

Make Richard the spotlit focus, as they do in Shoreditch, and you have the lesser form of tragedy.

Aeschylus is usually regarded as the one who, realizing the dramatic possibilities of the dialogue, first added a second speaker and thus invented the form of tragedy.

"Each year, we've had to overcome some form of tragedy in one sort or another," said Mel Stottlemyre, the pitching coach.

Nearly all news is bad news, and many news photographs are images of one form of tragedy or another -- war, pestilence, famine.

From Oedipus to Faust, Christopher Booker's 2004 psychology-based study, The Seven Basic Plots, identifies recurring story patterns in literature, ranging from rags to riches, beating the monster, to voyages and quests and various forms of tragedy and comedy.

I wanted to show people that despite having grown up within the cult and having spent a good portion of my life on the picket line, holding signs condemning our deceased soldiers, reveling in any and all forms of tragedy and simply striving to be hurtful in the name of God; that the WBC is wrong and what I did at the time was wrong!

"We're very cognisant of the fact that India has suffered the worst industrial tragedy [at Bhopal] but at the same time, environmental degradation is another form of industrial tragedy and nuclear is a cleaner source," added Rossow.

Revenge tragedy, drama in which the dominant motive is revenge for a real or imagined injury; it was a favourite form of English tragedy in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras and found its highest expression in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Literary success came with the verse drama Atalanta in Calydon (1865), in which he attempted to re-create in English the spirit and form of Greek tragedy; his lyric powers are at their finest in this work.