Sentence examples for less tragedy from inspiring English sources

As our understanding of how the body works and how it can be better fixed continues to advance, the hope is that the job involves less tragedy.

But I would really settle for less [bleep]ing tragedy".

What we're getting instead is less a tragedy than a deadly farce.

She's an all-out belter, an unapologetic admirer of Janis Joplin's most heated moments; anything less than tragedy or fury leaves her sounding overwrought.

Poverty is less a "tragedy" than a "scandal," he declares, the result of "decisions taken, or not taken, by political and economic leaders" and accepted by voters.

It was less the tragedy of Wilde's last years that gripped me than the wit and humanity of the man, his generosity of spirit and radical ideas.

It is, none the less, the tragedy it ends with: the last lesson in a thrilling, disquieting sermon of what ignorance and caprice can wreak.

But this memoir reminds us that it would be no less a tragedy if he had been drunk that morning; nor less if he had still been using crack.

Less a tragedy and more a tortured comedy played out in the squelching mud and dirt of Elsinore, Thomas Ostermeier's Schaubuhne production shines the same forensic light on Shakespeare as he previously brought to bear on Kane and Ibsen.

Pialat makes a comedy of two Parisian mothers facing the countryside's deprivations, but the disruptions of family life come off less as tragedy than as opportunity: at the heart of the story is the city boy Hervé (Hervé Lévy), who learns to love the freedom of the country and resents his return home.

The Gordon Schaefer model of open access fisheries [37], [38], as well as Hardin's [39] less formal "tragedy of the commons" model of common pool resources, predict overfishing when individual or collective access/property rights to fisheries are ill defined.