Sentence examples for tragic bird from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mercy, also a dancer, a fraction too mournful, rushes to the front of the stage with his arms held out to either side, like a tragic bird.

"It's tragic that a beautiful bird like that, that looks like a jewel, is feeding in disgusting water," he said.

Some crosses are crowned with white doves representing the soul; a black bird implies a tragic or suspicious end.

Little Birds is a tragic tale in which the poor stay poor, government stays out of the business of welfare, and a legitimate rape at the film's climax does not lead to pregnancy.

They come to a tragic end, their souls embodied as birds in flight.

One story might serve as a tragic symbol of the fate of the birds — a fate that has already overtaken some species and threatens all.

The bird's destruction and burial are as tragic, affecting and socially meaningful as anything in 20th-century art.

The police might have cast the beating as a typical bar fight with a tragic ending had interviews not uncovered the existence of the Bird Rock Bandits and the men's link to it.

"What a crash of thunder!' 49...Qc8 50.Ng6+ Kg7 51.Nxe7+ 'A most tragic termination, the whole of the remaining army killed with one shot," concludes Bird.

The comedies of Aristophanes, so obsessed with Euripides but really with tragedy in general (Birds 787, 1444; Clouds 1091; Plutus 423 4), introduce comments about tragic stagecraft that use mimeisthai and mimêsis in consistently pejorative ways.

At the time, Martha's death was seen as a remarkable and tragic event; just a few decades earlier, the passenger pigeon had been the most abundant bird in North America, with flocks so immense that they blocked the noonday sun.