Sentence examples for tragic action from inspiring English sources

"This is such a senseless, tragic action," Lafayette's police chief, Jim Craft, said on Friday.

Mr Oates is adamant, however: "It won't take long before someone take tragic action, but that doesn't stop people like Guardian putting untold pressure on us all".

To this day there are those who, working on this principle, object to Shakespeare's use of comic relief within the tragic action of his plays to the porter in Macbeth, for instance, or the gravediggers in Hamlet.

Even if only in distant and muffled tones, with the actual tragic action taking place off-stage à la Grecque, it summons the awful and ineffaceable memory of the first world war.

Taken together, these two great books present a vast and tragic action: the Red Army, which heroically defended and then liberated Stalingrad against seemingly impossible odds, goes on to burn, pillage and rape its way across eastern Europe, to take the German capital with massive cruelty (particularly against German women civilians) and profligate loss of life.

For those individuals who could callously hurt others, it seems obvious that spending one's days in isolated, simulated violence, sparks ideas that turn into tragic action.

But they are a relief to a city and nation that has grown weary of police officers escaping legal accountability for their tragic actions.

The tragic actions of the plot are often played down, with the filmmakers expressing more than the actors in the tableaus of characters lingering in shots of doorways and rooms, or in the crackling air of the street.

So how could it all have fallen through the cracks?" A spokesman for the Jefferson County School District said none of the Columbine employees, including the principal, Frank DeAngelis, knew beforehand "about the horrible plans or the tragic actions" of April 20 , 1999

This situation is perceived as tragic, demanding action like providing the artist with a government subsidy.

The reply from Pollock, a former farm boy, offered a glimpse of the boyish machismo inside the tragic hero of Action Art, as Abstract Expressionism was sometimes called.