Sentence examples for tragic devotion from inspiring English sources
At times I wasn't sure if "Parade's End" was actually interested in its characters or if it merely wanted to use them as props in its disjointed exploration of an entire class' tragic devotion to a decayed code and familiar ideas about the connections between hypocrisy and savagery.
What used to seem a heroic sign of devotion now just seems tragic.
For the wasp mother, however, devotion to the fig plant soon turns tragic.
She could be queenly and tragic, prolonging and fluttering a sustained note with sorrowful devotion, or as jovial as a wedding singer getting the party started.
"Selma's Negro community is, in fact, in an hour of new and more subtle crisis — a tragic crisis when it is contrasted with the soaring hopes and selfless devotion they and their friends demonstrated here such a short time ago".
She mocks her own devotion to acting ("I feel alive when I'm acting. It's tragic, but true").
I'm grateful for the movies that do provide models of political imagination, such as "Moonlight," which paid tribute to the beauty, devotion, dignity, and elegance in a life that many would write off as tragic.
But faith without wisdom is a dangerous thing … In the long sequence of interaction and fusion between Orient and Occident out of which our civilization has grown, the Crusades were a tragic and destructive episode … There was so much courage, and so little honour, so much devotion and so little understanding.
