Sentence examples for tragic fault from inspiring English sources

Aristotle says that a tragic destiny is precipitated by the hero's tragic fault, his "error or frailty" (hamartia), but Aristotle also calls this turn of events a change of "fortune".

It is the moral one-sidedness of the tragic actor, not any negatively tragic fault in his morality or in the forces opposed to him, that proves his undoing, for both sides of the contradiction, if taken by themselves, are justified.

While appreciating the opportunities for economic growth and material prosperity which this process offers, the church cannot but express profound concern that our world continues to be divided, no longer by the former political and military blocs, but by a tragic fault line between those who can benefit from these opportunities and those who seem cut off from them.

The pope raised other subjects where he feels the United States needs a more moral approach, including what he described as a "tragic fault-line" between rich and poor nations as globalization spreads.

Interestingly -- and in a feminist turn -- none of the main male characters of Semyon, Woodrugh and Velcoro had the emotional capacity for long-term survival and each of them died directly as results of their tragic faults, leaving behind so much unfulfilled and unsaid.

The technique is classic propaganda, of the kind disseminated through the third world by the Communists during the cold war: seizing on what Americans see as a fault or tragic mistake, like racial segregation in the 1950's or the killing of innocent civilians in Vietnam, and recasting it as a malicious defining characteristic of an evil society.

Vick said the 10-part series, "The Michael Vick Project," would show his turnaround from a tragic fall from stardom "that was all my fault".

Mining has this magnetic profundity (no, really), a tragic foreboding in the fault at its core: all heavy industry pitches identity, work and masculinity as a package, inseparable and insuperable.

Granted, it has its faults – the tragic climax is narratively rushed and the aggro between the old patriarch Ephraim and his bridling son Eben is heavily indebted to Euripides and Freud.

But like many books about the contentious subject of Central America, this one could have gone a lot farther in analyzing the faults and tragic errors of the left and in laying out the American role in Guatemala's painful history with a good deal more nuance.

In a description given by an anonymous high-ranking GRU official, Kosygin is described as "a lonely and somewhat tragic figure" who "understood our faults and shortcomings of our situation in general and those in our Middle East policy in particular, but, being a highly restrained man, he preferred to be cautious".