Sentence examples for the level of tragedy from inspiring English sources

Not that "The Expendables" exactly rises to the level of tragedy or poetry.

The answer probably lies in Sickles himself, who was too lacking in any morally redemptive qualities to rise to the level of tragedy.

"It was a very eye opening experience to learn the level of tragedy that such a large swatch of humanity is forced to endure".

The tragic Melinda invariably makes herself a pain in the neck, and long before the end of the movie one begins to have such sour thoughts as "People who can't pull themselves together don't rise to the level of tragedy.

The sad thing about Hart — it doesn't rise to the level of tragedy — is that intellectually and by experience he may be one of the best qualified of the candidates, but his character is seriously flawed.

He bears some resemblance to George Eliot's dour creation Casaubon, the failed scholar in "Middlemarch," of whose situation Eliot writes, "Everything is below the level of tragedy except the passionate egoism of the sufferer".

In the end the levels of tragedy and heroism are not in doubt.

Antonio Pappano's conducting emphasises the score's dark Wagnerisms, but also elevates a work sometimes seen as dreary to the level of genuine tragedy.

The last word [On his Pianist role] "It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world.

The books also marked my first encounter with the mock-heroic form: Cresswell's elevation of bourgeois domestic drama to the level of Shakespearean tragedy via her use of magniloquence, inflated analogy and classical reference is so adroit that when I read The Rape of the Lock for A-level, it was both instantly familiar and, frankly, a letdown.

This is Turing as misunderstood hero, brought to the level of grand tragedy.