Sentence examples for tragedy playing from inspiring English sources

But what his fans didn't know was the tragedy playing out in the backdrop.

I would be very surprised if we don't see this same Prisoner's Dilemma tragedy playing out as the global recession deepens.

Astutely choosing Paul Scofield as his co-star Gielgud resuscitated Thomas Otway's tremendous restoration tragedy, playing the role of the wracked Jaffier in a dazzle of torment and nobility.

The Greek fiscal tragedy playing across the Aegean has turned into a daytime soap opera in the past couple of weeks.

A reporter for the New York Tribune, Mortimer Thomson, disguised himself as a buyer and mingled with the crowd during the auction, providing a detailed and chilling record of the proceedings as potential buyers shouted and joked among themselves, immune to the human tragedy playing out before their very eyes.

"Anything less only perpetuates this grotesque human tragedy playing out every day on American soil".

Tragedy plays on infinite loop.

It is a national tragedy played out in real time.

Thus, the chorus of Greek tragedy played an important part in conveying the dramatist's intention.

As the family tragedy played itself out in the public eye, Zulema sued for divorce.

Watching them, Michael's obsessive circling of his own tragedy plays out.