Sentence examples for play tragic from inspiring English sources

"Some sad singers, they just play tragic," he moans, and he's complaining about himself.

Lupita Nyong'o, who played tragic Patsy in 12 Years a Slave.

In a confrontation in which coincidence and surprise apparently played tragic roles, officials said the victim, Timothy Stansbury Jr., who was walking up the narrow interior stairs ahead of two friends, and one of two officers on the roof simultaneously grabbed the handles of a door atop a four-story building at 385 Lexington Avenue, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, about 1 30 a.m.

That was her gift: she played tragic soubrettes, foolish but not silly young women aged 38 and 66 and 71, still willing to believe that romance will blossom even as they recount, broken-voiced, how romance has failed them in the past.

In the musical Seymour dies, which is great because I'd love to play a tragic hero as well as my tragic heroines," says Flanders.

The sting of the play's tragic ending is muted.

Ms. Gabriel didn't play the tragic heroine between songs.

Christopher Eccleston's outstanding Creon becomes the play's tragic centre.

With that one line Tennessee Williams has charted the play's tragic trajectory.

And despite advance strictures, McGuinness' translation admirably brings out the play's tragic trajectory.

Siu-Yong has the firmest purchase on the play's tragic dimensions as well as on its comic ones.