Sentence examples for tragic darkness from inspiring English sources

I recently sat down with Brian Oakes in Manhattan to discuss the film, Jim's legacy, and the truly human side of Foley that continues to shine a light through the tragic darkness surrounding his fate.

"The Winter's Tale" takes place in two different but inextricably linked worlds, one of tragic psychological darkness and the other of comic pastoral sunlight.

Joseph Horowitz's characterization of the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ["A Moral Beacon Amid the Darkness of a Tragic Era," Feb. 6] is for the most part extremely apt.

But the joy lies in seeing a once-derided play done with such gusto, and the Globe itself acquiring the hermetic darkness of a tragic venue.

Maybe a goat or two saw their final moment flash in front of their eyes while lying on the cold stone in the darkness of a tragic moonless night.

From the time of David Pinsent's death in 1918 onward, Wittgenstein's thirst for monastic isolation and the uttermost stripping bare of human contacts had, at its roots, a sense of tragic loss and of love gone to darkness.

The Vatican has suggested that priests like Murphy are tragic anomalies, decent men who have fallen into darkness and are therefore deserving of our pity.

Before her tragic death in 2007, choreographer Tanja Liedtke investigated the contrast and balance of darkness and light in her work Enter Twilight.

The opening image alone, in which beams of light from miners' pit helmets slice through the misty darkness, is likely to resonate with anyone aware of last month's tragic occurrences in the United States coal-mining industry.

Between them stands the work Mahler regarded as his Tragic Symphony the four-movement No. 6 in A Minor (1904), which moves out of darkness only with difficulty, and then back into total night.

"It's a bit tragic, in a way," Van Zandt says during a new documentary film examining the making of Darkness, "because he would have been one of the great pop-song writers of all time".