Sentence examples for tragic description from inspiring English sources

Contrary to that tragic description, the piece is a romantic comedy, at least by opera standards.

Zubik, who has been bishop for 11 years, earlier vowed to release the names of any members of his clergy named in the report, which he called "a sad and tragic description of events that occurred within the Church".

It's also itself another palimpsest: the scherzo, as David Oshows-Smish shows, is not only an expanded version of a song that Mahler wrote setting a text from Des Knaben Wunderhorn about St Anthony's unfortunately pointless sermonising to the sinful fishes, it's also, in Mahler's own description, a tragic vision of a dance watched by an observer who can't be part of the revels.

It's funny how the memory works, or perhaps tragic is a better description.

It hardly seems fair to expect New York's next mayor to have tragic dimensions, but the job description now plainly includes not just fixing schools and throttling crime but also holding hands and rousing battered spirits.

Revered by some as the iconic military man, detested by others for disobeying presidential directives, an egoist, a master strategist who tried to prevent casualties, a showboat, an undisputable leader and ultimately a tragic figure -- all seemed accurate descriptions of the general who helped inspire Americans during World War II.

In this sketch from 1998, Ferrell offers excessively vivid descriptions of his tragic existence, "You talk about ancient beauty and classical forms, but if you ask me, you wouldn't recognize a real beauty if it was outside in the parking lot, waiting to give you hepatitis".

Schopenhauer's description has limited application to tragic denouements in general.

Interim Sheriff John Scott on Thursday called the shooting "very tragic". Winkler's black shirt matched the description of the assailant, so when he bolted out of the apartment, deputies suspected Winkler was the suspect, he said.

Mr. Herbert's descriptions of female violence are tragic and terrifying.

One is almost always mentioned with descriptions that include the words "tragic," "unexpected" and "sad".