Sentence examples for point of tragedy from inspiring English sources
He called the family's attempt to wrest the items from Mr. Belafonte "sad to the point of tragedy".
While Mick, Rosemary and the others are admirable characters, it is with Breege and Joseph, loving, resentful and umbilically connected to the point of tragedy, that O'Brien has achieved the novel's real triumph.
He's soon in love with her, and she used him to the point of tragedy - Sunday at 9 p.m. and Friday at midnight on CUNY; Friday/Early Saturday at 1 10 a.m. on Channel 21.
Even without drugs, tiredness and the disorientating five-senses mind-fuck that breakfast time in Vauxhall creates heighten my emotions, making everything seem poignant to the point of tragedy.
"Almost beyond endurance" was once the point of Greek tragedy; Aristotle pointed to catharsis as the defining experience of art.
Underneath the tank car landscape lies the ruins of the Musi-Café, the town's once-popular nightspot that became a focal point of the tragedy when the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway train roared into town at 1 15 a.m. on July 6.
He is a disgraced former president, disgraced because he urged the authorities not to prolong the Chechen crisis, not to bring things to the point of a tragedy that the state could not handle.
"Safety procedures, however, had degraded over time to the point where this kind of tragedy was almost inevitable.
On Friday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn made a speech that linked terrorism to foreign policy in the wake of the Manchester attack, and got immediate criticism for trying to make a "crass" political point in the wake of tragedy.
But at what point does art become exploitation of tragedy for personal gain?
Larger social factors are always more tempting to point to in a time of tragedy than the particulars of a given case, such as mental health or personal grievances.
