Sentence examples for shattering tragedy from inspiring English sources

At the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, for example, the current production is "Oedipus," a version of the Sophocles plays that deal with a shattering tragedy.

The effects of the shattering tragedy on Sept. 11 will undoubtedly be seen in contemporary art in the not-so-distant future.

His first marriage, about which only his closest friends were aware, was shattered by tragedy.

It's an oddly liberating framework for the tragedy, shattering chronology and reinventing a final, conclusive death as something rather more mutable, unstable.

Everybody is shattered by the tragedy.

The community, shattered by the tragedy, is also slowly rebuilding.

"This tragedy shatters me," Anuar told the New Straits Times newspaper.

It doesn't deliver easy answers, but it humanizes rage and violence as it conveys the stories of nearly three dozen people who have survived poverty, gang life, shattered families and tragedy.

Instead of treating the play as it's so often done in Britain, as Shakespeare's attempt at a PhD in epistemology, Vladimir Shcherban and a young, energetic Belarus Free Theatre company offer instead a Lear returned vividly to its roots: as a comic folktale that shatters into tragedy.

And then this – shattering the fantasy that surviving one tragedy somehow exempts you from another.

The paired tragedies shattered the Brando household something the media would later dub, scathingly, the "House of Pain".