Sentence examples for much tragic from inspiring English sources

It's not so much tragic as inevitable.

The veterans did not seem so much tragic victims as eccentric members of a select club.

And so the movie becomes a comic strip about Hearst, without much resonance, and certainly without much tragic resonance.

In 2008, Barack Obama authored a new archetype — a biracial man who was not so much tragic as ironic.

But Redding, like Buddy Holly, went down in a plane crash, and plane crashes are not so much tragic as stupid.

Her first, "Private Altars," published in 1995, was verbally inventive but ultimately a disappointment, perhaps because it revolved around a heroine blessed by the gods with every gift except the all-important one of common sense -- a fact that made her story not so much tragic as infuriating.

"But the reality of the book is much more tragic".

The band's artistic decline would seem much more tragic if it weren't for Brian Wilson.

If the story of Katerina Ismailova is sad, how much more tragic the fact that Shostakovich never completed another opera.

"It really wasn't so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery," she reflects.

In many ways they could identify with Othello the clever man, respected and bright who became a folly to his own failings and very much the tragic hero.