Sentence examples for low tragedy from inspiring English sources

"Lestat," which vacillates feebly between low tragedy and lower camp, has nothing like that self-assurance.

From low tragedy to high farce, politics, economics and celebrity culture all seem to be locked in a downward spiral of lunatic proportions.

Betty's was always an unfulfilling existence full of low-level tragedy.

For me at my lowest, their tragedies felt very similar to each other and to my own experience.

The week, spent listening to wiretaps and culminating with the banging in of apartment doors across Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island, brought with it the annual mix of tragedy, low comedy and more than a slight sense of futility.

Ambidextrous in talent, excelling at both comedy and tragedy, low farce and high drama, prose and verse, Shakespeare was, as Mr. Bate writes, "a realist as well as a romantic, a skilled politician as well as a supreme poet".

For the students he worked with, Gethers said, stereotyping is a far greater tragedy than low test scores.

"The Suburbs of Heaven" so mixes tragedy with low comedy that any response becomes a complicated proposition.

Over the course of a long career, he played high tragedy and low farce, was a leading man in British films of the 1950s, and did TV sitcoms.

But Fentiman's pick'n'mix approach to place and his juxtaposition of high tragedy and low comedy only becomes clear towards the climax.

Mixing tragedy with low comedy, this novel records the travails of the Hutchins clan of Penacook County, N.H., whose unshakable run of hard luck -- including alcoholism, mental illness and deaths both accidental and otherwise -- resembles a biblical plague.