Sentence examples for stand tragedy from inspiring English sources

On the witness stand, tragedy (an ambulance driver's account of pulling a human head from the wreckage) jockeyed with farce (an ex-girlfriend's description of Blanton's sexual adventures at the Bluebird Motel).

He called his act stand-up tragedy.

If you set our imagineers next to Florence's, however, the New York lineup was pure stand-up tragedy.

The altar, candles and tabernacle have been put away, replaced by a bare-bones set where the youthful cast of "Stand-Up Tragedy" confront and comfort one another under the gaze of an unblinking Christ.

Mr. Cain, a playwright ("Stand-Up Tragedy") who founded a Shakespeare company in Boston, brings a scholarly dedication and an impish humor to his portrait of history's most famous playwright at work.

This may not work as a universal philosophical rule, but it certainly applies to what writer witnesses do, especially when they stand alone amid tragedy or triumph.

If you are feeling melancholy and were a child in the 70's, these three sometimes seem to stand for the tragedy of childhood itself.

But a certain generation knows almost by heart the falls from glory of Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges and Dana Plato, the three actors who have come to stand for the tragedy of child stardom.

Thirty years on, I have seen a fire report submitted by the Timber Research and Development Association, the one independent body to carry out an inspection of Valley Parade's main stand before the tragedy, that concluded it was "extremely unlikely that a small source of ignition on its own, say a cigarette in a plastic cup, could have been the primary cause".

The death toll of this litany of tragedy stands at approximately 1,236 people since the beginning of 2013.

1937 Hindenburg Toll at 33 LAKEHURST — As one passenger and two members of the crew died in hospitals today [May 7], the toll of the Hindenburg air tragedy stood late tonight at thirty-three.