Sentence examples for tragic defeat from inspiring English sources
Jesus' story is one of tragic defeat until, in Matthew, the women visit the tomb and find not something but nothing.
Never one to understate an emotion, Gorman recalled Game 6 in his 2005 memoir, "High and Inside: My Life in the Front Offices of Baseball": "It was a tragic defeat that was difficult to live with".
He worked with France's three finest directors of the era, invariably playing doomed characters, the victims of fate and social injustice, yet somehow indomitable in the face of tragic defeat.
Hook and the pragmatic philosophy recognized that there have been innumerable sites of human failure, self-destructive action and tragic defeat in history.
Mariachi music, rising from the sun-parched valleys of Jalisco, became a signature of Mexican culture during the years of revolution, when groups of traveling musicians performed emotional songs about heroic triumphs and tragic defeats.
Preminger offers an unsparing view of war and its overturning of the natural order, as the young die and the old grieve, romance yields to blind lust, and soldiers wounded in body and in soul find victorious battle as tragic as defeat.
The other film is a tragic story of defeat and the destruction of a culture.
Later, a rant-cum-confessional positions Earn the confessor as a tragic hero, a defeated man still fighting to manifest the flighty dreams in his heart.
They seem devoid of any sense of life's tragic dimensions, its defeats and sorrows, so sequestered and shielded do they appear, without experience of anything not on the program of their over-organized, over-supervised, and over-protected lives, as they are chauffeured, chaperoned, and allowed an occasional run on the leash of their cellphone.
Meanwhile, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa called the defeat "a tragic day for Africa".
Mr McCain stands with Arizona in its confrontation with the federal government over SB1070, a controversial state law plainly hostile in spirit to the more tolerant values that he was once proud to champion and which earned him admirers from the liberal end of politics.In the eyes of that audience, playing false to win wrongly is more tragic than a noble defeat.
