But still, but still, in the face of their tragic acceptance of the weakness of human will, Italians still remain generally affable, pleasant, helpful, and polite, and those of us who have learned to live with the paradox between what they get and what they give could not - go figure - live anywhere else.
Santayana's reflections on these events led to the ancient wisdom that acceptance of the tragic leads to a lyrical release.
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Though the dance to Mahler's final song suggests that these people have moved through the worst stage of mourning into some kind of acceptance, the tone remains tragic.
But as Israel marks 60 years without genuine acceptance by its neighbors, the tragic failure of settlement migration without numerical superiority seems to be repeating itself.
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Gabriel Garcia Marquez denounced the tragic social and political reality of Latin America: "Eleven years ago, the Chilean Pablo Neruda, one of the outstanding poets of our time, enlightened this audience with his word.
And overcoming an insistent cell phone during her final moments of hurt rage, confusion and tentative acceptance, Ms. Heche elevated Catherine to near-tragic status.
When The Boys in the Band made its theatrical debut in 1968, pre-AIDS and pre-mainstream acceptance, the archetype was new to us, and tragic.
"I want parents of LGBTQ kids to understand the tragic scope of this problem and the profound influence family acceptance plays in the lives of the LGBTQ youth," Mariotti told HuffPost.
Faced with the impending nomination of Donald Trump, many across the GOP have been migrating through the five stages of emotional response to a tragic event suggested by Swiss psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
"The horrific attack on Latin night at Pulse nightclub is a tragic reminder of how far we have left to go to achieve full acceptance of LGBTQ people," Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD president and CEO, said.
