Sentence examples for high tragedy from inspiring English sources

All that high tragedy is receding from our lives.

"It's high comedy, high tragedy, then they break into song.

Manon Lescaut is both operatic high tragedy and picaresque adventure.

Periods of the creation of high tragedy are therefore few and short-lived.

She continued living her life at a pitch of high tragedy.

When it was finally revealed, it arrived not as high tragedy but as low comedy.

He had a particular fixation with the Columbine high school tragedy of April 1999, in which two students killed 12 other students and a teacher in Colorado.

So all Titanoraks are writers, then – ineluctably drawn to the high drama, tragedy and perfect in-built metaphor of the thing?

Now, in Mr. Read's drama about a high school tragedy, Mr. Birney returns to similar territory in his subtly hued portrait of an English teacher whose favorite student dies suddenly of an aneurysm.

It was the second high profile tragedy to strike the national psyche in days, with many across the country still reeling from a dramatic siege in Sydney which left three dead.

Initially she had no thought of turning the footage into a film, but as they journeyed from being denied a rating to public protests to a failed appeal, a plotline began to emerge: a shoestring Waiting for Godot with overtones of Kafka; high Shakespearean tragedy transformed into a bureaucratic comedy of errors, complete with a cast of hapless, face-saving goons.