Sentence examples for tragic fool from inspiring English sources
But I just stood there like a tragic fool and watched him go.
New York Times theater critic Clive Barnes called it an "angry play and a partisan play" that sided with Oppenheimer but portrayed the scientist as a "tragic fool and genius".
In this way, he is something of a Shakespearean character — though whether he is tragic hero or fool has never been quite clear.
In 30 years you'll probably even look like a tragic political figure, instead of a fool.
He briefly explains that he lost a girlfriend to a tragic accident (which drove the narrative of "Fools Rush In"), but beyond that he says only that he has been in a "transitional phase," picking tomatoes in California.
We suffer with the tragic hero and we laugh at the comic fool.
Ship Of Fools (1965) -- Set in 1933, a tragic turning point in Germany's history, Stanley Kramer's psychological drama trails a disparate group of passengers sailing from Vera Cruz right into the heart of fascism.
Mr. Sher has been admired over time as Richard III and Leontes, among other Shakespearean roles that include Lear's Fool, but never as one of the playwright's tragic heroes.
While his death was undeniably tragic, Daniel was hardly the first to die on April Fools' Day and he won't be the last.
Forsyth is dream casting as Miss Quodling: she is at once a clown and a seer, a character in the tradition of Shakespeare's Fools, and she compellingly unites the vulgar, the lyric and the tragic.
