Sentence examples for major tragedy from inspiring English sources

Make a major tragedy of it.

In China, it can constitute a major tragedy.

She spoke as if that would be a major tragedy.

I felt like a minor figure in a major tragedy.

It's sad, but it isn't a major tragedy".

Speaking to reporters in Melbourne, Ms. Gillard described the sinking as a "major tragedy".

Maybe directors warm to the green unsubtlety of the period, as to the big-name heroics of the major tragedies.

We keep hearing about the NASA "culture" that led to such major tragedies as the Challenger and Columbia missions.

Kermode takes us through the major tragedies and the last plays, paying very acute attention to questions like these.

In fact these days I'd argue that the default Shakespeare style — at least for the major tragedies, and many of the comedies and romances, too — is contemporary.

The play was the first of Racine's major tragedies and enjoyed a public success comparable to Corneille's triumphal Le Cid 30 years earlier.