She distances the subject, makes it tragic, monumental.
His story is not new, but its familiarity does not make it less tragic.
"The question is, does it make it any less tragic?" said Jonathan Greenspun, the commissioner of the Mayor's Community Assistance Unit.
The horror is conveyed in painterly ways that, to me, make it seem more tragic than the photograph, because the viewer is drawn in, not repelled.
But that didn't make it any less tragic.
No one can make it less painful, tragic, or surreal -- but we can make it more believable.
"The Merchant of Venice" resists attempts to bring it into the Enlightenment, let alone to make it recognize the full tragic weight of centuries of racial and religious hatred.
Like that makes it more tragic.
She sang a little of "I've Got You Under My Skin" in the Frank Sinatra style and said: "Then we slowed it down, which made it more tragic.
Unlike the errant tiger in "The Hangover," which is only truly funny because it belongs to Mike Tyson, which also makes it somewhat tragic, the alligators are a genuinely madcap touch.
