Sentence examples for last tragedy from inspiring English sources

"The memory of the last tragedy only adds to the bitterness of the new one," it said.

" 'Richard II,' with its highly wrought verse, is an exquisite artifact, while 'Coriolanus,' Shakespeare's last tragedy, is almost like free-form jazz.

"Arming the teacher is merely a response to the last tragedy," said Representative Mike Thompson, a California Democrat who is chairman of a House task force on gun violence.

This is the first time Shakespeare's last tragedy has been brought to the screen, though there is a memorable reference in Cole Porter's "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" in Kiss Me, Kate ("If she says your behaviour is heinous/ Kick her right up the Coriolanus").

Let us pray this will be the last tragedy for Surabaya".

Unfortunately, it is neither the first nor last tragedy of its kind.

After the composition of Shakespeare's last tragedies — the opulent, spacious "Antony and Cleopatra" (1606-1607), the cold, rhetorically contorted "Coriolanus" (1607-08), and the rough-hewn, one-note "Timon of Athens" (1607-08) — there is a slackening, as if something had snapped.

Indeed, this last contemporary tragedy at sea evokes other terrible images of maritime disaster.

And Mr Daniel warned that – without real change – his brother's death will not be the last preventable tragedy at HMP Wandsworth.

Europe EVERYONE'S GOING TO HAVE A LOOK AT THAT BIG BOAT THAT SANK LAST WEEKEND "Tragedy tourists" flock to see Costa Concordia as death toll rises to 13. (via) Thousands of people have been visiting the Italian island of Giglio to take pictures of and eat picnics near the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner.

Shakespeare's last two tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra, are close to the edge of a valueless void.