Sentence examples for real tragic from inspiring English sources

Fitzgerald, though, is a little different: he is more a novelist's creation, a real tragic hero.

It's depressing anyway that the movie shaped real, tragic events into a moralising narrative designed to deter women from aspiring to freedoms that are commonplace for men.

"This is a very real, tragic case in many, many ways," Mr. Burress's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said before his client was sentenced.

The story is scathing — Zeno's account of how insensitive he was to his dying father — but it is also very funny, and it has a real tragic grandeur.

Still, the overall effect is quite shattering, and true to the spirit of what might have developed into Mozart's only real tragic opera.

She is a real tragic figure from the moment she comes onstage, and figures like that cannot only sing beautiful music.

He is an autonomous being, as alive in fiction as if he were treading the earth for real, both tragic and humorous, with a brain to match anyone.

This was a source of real, even tragic regret, though Maxwell was too just and fine-mannered to voice complaint, much less self-pity.

It's the very real, very tragic tale of the 2010 oil rig explosion that killed 11 people and caused an environmentally catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Richard Socarides, who advised President Bill Clinton on gay rights issues, said that while the memorandum on its own did not grant any new rights, it did "draw attention to the very real and tragic situations many gays and lesbians face when a partner is hospitalized".

This disdain for objective truth has real and tragic consequences.