Sentence examples for the tragic is from inspiring English sources

He went on to say that the tragic and the comic are both based on contradiction but "the tragic is the suffering contradiction, comical, painless contradiction".

The point is that the tragic — I want to make this point now and I will be elaborating it as we go on next time — especially next time — the tragic is never the final vision.

Faith, self-sacrifice and mourning are themes, as is the extent to which the tragic is an element in much art, ready to give comfort when we need it.

When asked about his interest in tragedy, he said, through an interpreter: "The tragic is everywhere, and contrary to what people think, it does not reflect the problem of death.

"A sense of the tragic is always with me when I paint," observed Rothko, a Russian Jew who arrived on Ellis Island in 1913 to pursue the American dream.

I think you should look at the behavior of the characters, which I hope you will perceive as paradoxical, in order to see where the funny is in the tragic and the tragic is in the funny.

For Sartre the tragic was the mechanization and objectification of the human.

For Camus, the tragic was something more elusive: whatever it was, it was missing in America.

Nevertheless, beyond the tragic are riveting exemplars of the heroic, from Second Officer Charles Lightoller to the unsinkable Molly Brown.

What makes this all the more tragic is that some of the solutions are obvious.

The word "tragic" is overused today.