Sentence examples for tragic characters from inspiring English sources

Tragic characters could fling themselves from the heights.

"Think of 'Frost/Nixon.' These are tragic characters, and we'd rather have the handsome, sexy guy.

How did publicists become Hollywood's villains of choice -- tragic characters at best, and sleazy liars at worst?

His opera thus shows us "the absolute solitude of the tragic characters under the gaze of the Hidden God" – by which he means fate or destiny.

Staged elegantly by the Builders' artistic director, Marianne Weems, with the help of the architectural firm Diller Scofidio and Renfro, "Jet Lag" follows two tragic characters escaping the world through travel.

Like the hero of some Greek play, Jonathan Franzen — apparently motivated, as so many tragic characters are, by an excessively lofty sense of himself — caused his moment of greatest triumph to disintegrate into public humiliation.

"Saul is a kind of tragic character.

"He wasn't a tragic character," said Ms. Bogart about Welles.

"Maurice is a tragic character, trapped behind many layers of problems.

Shakespeare's first major tragedy is Roman in spirit and Classical in its notion of tragic character.

I was thinking of a tragic character and think Jimmy is close to a Thomas Hardy character; he's out of a Hardy novel.