Sentence examples for moral tragedy from inspiring English sources

But what plays as a comedy of perverted prowess is actually a spiritual and moral tragedy.

What plays as a comedy of perverted prowess is actually a spiritual and moral tragedy.

While certain low-income programs are shielded from cuts, that the sequester has taken effect is a moral tragedy.

But he was also "deeply addicted" to ballet, and he had literary ambitions that were nearly as pressing: while a freshman at Harvard — he was admitted on his third attempt — he started a magazine, Hound & Horn, that drew support from Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and he went on to write criticism, poetry, at least one "moral tragedy," and a novel.

By 1965 he had turned against the Vietnam War, viewing it as an economic as well as a moral tragedy.

If there is a moral tragedy, it is the acceptance of fresh frozen plasma and cryoprecipitate in practice despite the absence of evidence to confirm efficacy [ 3, 5].

It evolves inside emotional dramas and moral tragedies in order to explore the modern survival, or loss, of humanity.

The response at the undermanned outpost was to send Manning back to the computer — and to the task of processing classified battlefield intelligence, with its accounts of death and the relentless moral tragedies of war.

In the past, particularly in his stunningly suspenseful "Drama City" (2005) and "The Night Gardener" (2006), Mr. Pelecanos, now also a television writer and producer, constructed these incipient moral tragedies with delicacy and care, even though he was already busy working on "The Wire" by then.

She is a hybrid of a serious strategist and someone committed to turning back the tide of the world's worst moral tragedies.

There's a kind of moral disaster in jadedly digesting the new shooting as just a float in the parade of others, in understanding tragedy as trope.