Sentence examples for tragic depiction from inspiring English sources

If the first time is tragedy and the second time farce, "Pocket Kings" is, in spirit, the comical sequel to Frederick Exley's "Fan's Notes," the classic and psychologically tragic depiction of machismo mediocrity.

"In Abraham's Bosom," set in 1885, is a tragic depiction of a black man so on fire with a passion to learn and educate his people -- "Ignorance is the only sin" is his motto -- that he destroys himself.

The film is a tragic depiction of urban life that features Joseph's interpretations of innocence, violence, and death.

I think the filmmakers' hearts are in the right place: producing a tragic depiction of enslaved and brutalized innocence.

The audience wonders, then, if the character of Ott the Recluse in the first play was based on Williams' own reclusiveness in his last few years; or if the tragic depiction of Mint, the young gay man in the second play, was reflective of the author's famously ambivalent feelings about his own sexuality.

Or, as has sometimes been suggested, the popularity of satirical and quasi-tragic depictions of ordinary folk may be a reflection of the contempt in which they are held by the coastal Albert Schmidts who make the movies and write the novels and the plays.

The most tragic, claustrophobic depictions of unhappy marriage in English literature undoubtedly have to come from a time before divorce was legally or socially an option.

Fey also applauded Hathaway's depiction of tragic Fantine: "I haven't seen someone look so alone and abandoned like that since you were on stage with James Franco at the Oscars".

It's a comic depiction of a tragic disconnect.

Critic Nahem Yousaf highlights the importance of these depictions: "Around the tragic stories of Okonkwo and Ezeulu, Achebe sets about textualising Igbo cultural identity".

Richly layered but concise in its depiction of comic or tragic set-pieces, this is surely the first and last book to get romantic mileage out of a meeting between Margaret Thatcher and Juan Carlos of Spain.