Sentence examples for tragic emotion from inspiring English sources
Thus, only a few of his plays deal in tragic emotion.
Although the sad music was both perceived and felt as "tragic" (e.g., gloomy, meditative and miserable), the listeners did not actually feel the tragic emotion as much as they perceived it.
These ambiguities are a powerful source of the tragic emotion of Athenian and Elizabethan drama, unequalled by traditions that are more sure of themselves, such as French Neoclassicism, or less sure of themselves, such as 20th-century drama.
He created full-length ballets that hold dark as well as light, but he argued that tragic emotion should be represented by acting, gesture, mime, whereas dancing expressed joy.
Mr. Garrido, gorgeous and effortlessly charismatic, is convincing when called upon to be feckless and charming, but he strains when the burden of tragic emotion is dropped onto his shoulders.
Yet by one of the more perverse tricks of artistic fate, the most popular version of it today is a Russian ballet that contains nothing of Mazilier's choreography or much of Adam's music and in which Byron's original poem, heavy with tragic emotion, is distorted into an absurd romp.
The great tragic emotions are replaced by simple bourgeois sentimentality.
In movies, for the most part, actors have to scale themselves down, even as they render their everyday heroes hyperbolic, lending ordinary people grand and tragic emotions.
The musicologist Alfred Einstein referred to this work as an "explosion of the dark, tragic, passionate emotions".
The novel, with its vast panorama of heady, complex and tragic adult emotions – Anna's aching passion, but also the touching arc of Levin and Kitty's love, and even Dolly's chaotic, overburdened domesticity – seemed to encompass everything that lay ahead of me in life.
The difficulty with that final sequence is that all that has come before does not appear to have accumulated in any climactic, tragic discharge of emotion or energy; it simply fades over the horizon.
