Sentence examples for pure tragedy from inspiring English sources
"It was a just a pure tragedy that Woody didn't live longer," said Mr. Seeger in a telephone interview.
The Petrobras scandal would read as pure tragedy were it not filled with a cast of Hollywood-ready characters and their lavish props.
Thus Le Cid anticipated the "pure" tragedy of Racine, in whose work the "classical" concept of tragic intensity at the moment of self-realization found its most mature and perfect expression.
While his novel has the vast sweep of pure tragedy, it is also at times playful, and utterly engrossing; it is filled with original and unexpected detail about domestic life, about the shapes and shadows that surround love and memory, and about the sharp and desperate edges of loss and fear.
Based on a real man's life, the story is "about as close to pure tragedy as Shakespeare," Dunbar says.
If you set our imagineers next to Florence's, however, the New York lineup was pure stand-up tragedy.
I love his craftiness, his wiliness, his moments of purest farce and tragedy.
Though Mizoguchi worked in Japan's mainstream movie industry, his work bears no trace of commercial compromise or populist sentiment; it reaches the purest realms of tragedy — and this accounts for his relative neglect.
Recently, a video emerged of a shocking altercation between citizens and cops but it didn't end in tragedy, just pure savagery.
What we are seeing play out - the communal madness and outlandish posturing, the pushing and shoving, the manic statements of the key players - is a pure, unpolluted, and undiluted tragedy for our state.
