Sentence examples for tragic conception from inspiring English sources

His literary creations spring less from a system of thought than from a spontaneously tragic conception of existence.

She confesses to a "tragic conception" of time, finding it "impossible to imagine that it could bring progress".

Because Chekhov's theater is the theater of modernist positivism, the tragic conception of a pointless universe, people whose desperate "Why?"s are left without an answer, who try to disguise the pointlessness of existence in fictitious ideals.

New genetic testing programs are also being developed for Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jews, with the goal of preempting the tragic conception or birth of a child with a fatal genetic disease.

Philoctetes, Wilson said, embodies the paradox of the Sophoclean tragic hero: "the conception of a superior strength as inseparable from disability".

This picture adds to the habitual haunting charm a tragic irony of conception and a felicity of execution which give it a place apart among Burne-Jones's works.

North's translation of Plutarch was William Shakespeare's source for his Roman history plays and influenced the development of his conception of the tragic hero.

A well-known English translation by Sir Thomas North in 1579, Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, was the source of William Shakespeare's Roman history plays and influenced his conception of the tragic hero.

A tree shook; an electric light danced; the tone of the talk was comic, but also tragic; a whole vision, an entire conception, seemed contained in that moment.

It is also striking to many readers of French classical theater that the two authors' aesthetics are distinct in their forms and themes, in their conception of the comic and the tragic, and even in their finer stylistic turns.

Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity?