Sentence examples for tragedy up from inspiring English sources

So too, is shock: the shock of experiencing the tragedy up close and, say nearly all, realising the lack of empathy displayed by governments back home.

The skies rarely seem friendly anymore, but to Ryan Bingham, the corporate assassin played by George Clooney in the laugh-infused stealth tragedy "Up in the Air," they're so welcoming, he might as well be home.

At the outset of "Lear," now receiving an austerely lunatic West Coast premiere at City Garage, a projected PBS-style host drolly relates the narrative of William Shakespeare's immortal tragedy, up to Lear's banishment and Gloucester's blinding.

"When disaster strikes and women come, with their cakes and their bandages, with their cups of tea and their soothing fingers … They pick the bits of tragedy up off the floor and try to knit them together in some shape … so there's a whole again".

It just seemed like a train wreck of endless tragedy up until the very end of the year.

We are also adding a new social worker to our team in the wake of this tragedy, beefing up our programs in terms of support groups, beefing up our referrals and have had many generous volunteers come forward".

"Aren't you, Mussolini?" Farce is simply tragedy speeded up.

Farce is tragedy sped up, where mischief replaces destiny and suffering is shown but not felt.

"Chekhov said, 'Comedy is only tragedy sped up.' I think we are sometimes killing the silence between words that carry a lot of subtext in the arts".

But even here the exploration of 60's foreign tragedy runs up against the hoariest plot twist of 90's domestic melodrama.

EDINBURGH — If farce is tragedy speeded up, as has been said, Enda Walsh's ferociously entertaining new play might be called a drama in three gears.