Sentence examples for modern tragedy from inspiring English sources
This is a modern tragedy, replayed millions of times over.
What Hare has written is a realistic modern tragedy.
This is modern tragedy at its best: gut-wrenching, soul-destroying perfection.
The Tsarnaev Brothers: The Road to a Modern Tragedy is published by Scribe.
Our modern tragedy is that Eros makes us desire individual freedom against all else.
Considered to be the first modern tragedy, "Woyzeck" still feels contemporary more than 150 years after its creation.
Early modern tragedies thrum with transgressive lust and institutional sleaze, especially in this amber-lit voyeur's cradle.
Davies regards The House Of Mirth as one of literature's great modern tragedies and has wanted to film it for 15 years, during which time Martin Scorsese also abandoned familiar territory to film another of Wharton's books, The Age Of Innocence, with Winona Ryder, Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis.
Although Schopenhauer obviously did not live to see them, it is probable that he would have approved of Arthur Miller's modern tragedies such as All My Sons and Death of a Salesman which seem to fall entirely into this type (for more on Schopenhauer's theory of tragedy and his solution to the problems of tragedy see Tanner 1998; Neill 2003; Young 1987 & 1992; and Shapshay 2012b).
In their latest dispatch, Satire try to claim that Adam Sandler has predicted five major modern tragedies.
In many ways, the Peterloo Massacre – as it has come to be known – feels like it echoes modern concerns, modern tragedies.
