Not just the mortal tragedies of Hillsborough, and Heysel, but also the social tragedy of Militant, the powerful Trotskyite faction on the city council, who presided over what Neil Kinnock famously called the "grotesque chaos of a Labour council – a Labour council!
This gives him a chance to contrast loving a mortal (a tragedy) with loving a goddess (an illusion), but I would rather he had enlarged a bit Faust's truncated relationship with Margherita.
Across her face, tilting this way and that, flee the mortal looks of tragedy, knowledge, love, scorn, pain.
My Mortal Enemy is a real tragedy, constructed out of a real romance - the story of a rich and determined young woman, who ran away with a penniless lover, seen through the eyes of a much younger woman narrator.
The essential tragedy is man's brief mortal life.
Thus, the figure of Death in medieval drama reasons like a human being, and a god in Greek tragedy or in Shakespeare talks like any mortal.
Tragedy ensued, as the Five proved all too mortal.
In addition to revealing the appalling disregard for elementary safety measures rampant in many academic laboratories, Sangji's tragedy highlights two other systemic flaws that expose academic lab workers to mortal risk.
They leave the "mortal world" as Ireena says, "Through these many centuries we have played out the tragedy of our lives".
The eternal mystery of his mortal loathing of Othello isn't totally cracked in Folger Theatre's impressive, compulsively watchable staging of the tragedy.
John Irving is another writer who knows that tragedy can have its grotesque or even buffoonish aspect, and that life can deal out belly laughs and mortal blows in quick succession.
