Sentence examples for playing tragedy from inspiring English sources

Kirkwood also devised the plot to show of Coopers skills in playing tragedy, of this he commented: "It'll also give Claire Cooper and Nick Pickard another opportunity to show off their acting talents.

"If you can play comedy, you can play anything - you can play tragedy as well.

"And if you can only play tragedy, you can't play comedy.

A melancholy and droll being who can only play tragedy," wrote Stéphane Denis.

It's a tragedy, and yet you can't play tragedy, so it's really about people surviving – just – on the edge of poverty.

Have we, I wonder, in our unbounded knowledge of ghastly precedent, reached a pass where the only right way to play tragedy is as farce?

He can play tragedy, he can play comedy,'" Vidal said in 2007 while introducing "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the 1935 film with a teenage Rooney as Puck.

Even if you're playing a tragedy, you have a kind of game with the audience, it's a twinkle.

Liverpool has a reputation as a city that is full of sentimentalists, teary-eyed past-dwellers "playing the tragedy card".

The mimetic tradition of folk dance has blended well with comedy in countries of the Sunni persuasion and with the passion-play tragedy in Shīʿite countries.

Audiences respond to his emotional warmth, and he can play comedy, tragedy and anything in between.