Sentence examples for the first tragedy from inspiring English sources

Then, in mere days -- before we'd come to terms with the first tragedy -- came news of a second death.

In the first tragedy that survives – Aeschylus's The Persians – the Queen of Persia summons, with incantations, the ghost of the former king, Darius.

Since the Globe theatre was designed as an image of the world, it could have been a deliberate choice to put on a new play about Caesar as the first tragedy ever performed there.

His misery at leaving Italy found an outlet in the play Torquato Tasso (1790; Eng. trans. Torquato Tasso), the first tragedy in European literature with a poet as its hero, which was written largely in 1788 89, though it had been begun in 1780.

"The murder of Oscar Grant III was a tragedy and not the first tragedy suffered on the streets of Oakland," said Jakada Imani, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, who called the protests a tipping point "for a community that has been struggling and suffering for decades".

Ms. Kontouri is making her own return to City Center, where she staged "Medea" in 1998, the first tragedy she saw, as it happens, when she was 6. Comparing that play with "Antigone," she said that "it is as if 'Medea' deals with the dark side of human beings, and 'Antigone' deals with the light".

Even employees of the New York Times are going to have to pay for this -- and then pay again to have the place torn down when the first tragedies occur, or when science, evidence, and good reporting triumph.

Only two people appear to have survived the second tragedy.

The second tragedy to strike Jeremy was the death of his wife Caroline.

Shortly after that came the second tragedy that profoundly changed Australians' and South-East Asians' views of each other: the tsunami of December 26th.

He said that McClay's death was the second tragedy for the park this month, after another employee was killed in a road accident.