Sentence examples for tragic by from inspiring English sources

Schubert's Symphony No. 4 was dubbed the Tragic by its 19-year-old composer, though only the slow introduction to the first movement truly fits the description.

Shohreh is a potentially great character, made tragic by her degraded past, but also fiercely up for a good time, sexy clothes, good food and trouble.

While the move was considered essential to the survival of the bank, Italy's third-largest, it was seen as tragic by local residents, who lined up at the shareholder meeting to hurl invective at bank management.

It's a funny novel and a sad novel because this natural solipsism of ours is belied – rendered both ridiculous and tragic – by our ties of love and kinship to private worlds that necessarily do not centre around us.

Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic by Terry Eagleton 328pp, Blackwell, £14.99 With this brilliant and difficult book, Terry Eagleton takes on one of the great clichés of contemporary literary criticism: that tragedy is dead.

The full title of the film is Into The Abyss: A Tale Of Death, A Tale Of Life, and its subject matter is a grisly triple homicide that's rendered even more tragic by its pointlessness.

A tragic by-product of his vaudevillian roots was that a man uniquely at ease with himself came to be dismissed by his own people as a fake.

This country is still burdened by tragic history represented by that flag.

Our Tragic Universe, by Scarlett Thomas (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $19.95).

It is a tragic opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.

In the frame... Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse by Reynolds.