Sentence examples for tragic forces from inspiring English sources

Opponents of immigration often prefer to ignore the tragic forces that compel people to risk death in order to reach our lands of plenty, not to mention the horrors that often await the "lucky" few, once they do arrive.

They are solid structures, full of psychological penetration and tragic force.

This makes a prior sexual relationship between them possible, which confers motive on Abigail and tragic force on John.

But he did arrange and juxtapose speeches and descriptions of events in such a way as to bring out his story's tragic force.

What gives the book its tragic force is the reserve of authorial compassion we can sense in the gaps between each fragmentary episode and every terse, clipped sentence.

But the play's tragic force emerges strongly and the production's climax seems better suited to modern tastes than Euripides' original.

"All Quiet on the Western Front" is perhaps the emblematic rendering of the Great War's challenge to meaning, in its fragmented form, in its tragic force, and even in the irony of the title chosen by its English translator.

It also heightens O'Neill's Conradian awareness of the sea as a tragic force which shapes human destinies: something that becomes rivetingly clear at the climax and rescues it from sentimentality.

Audiences are entitled to come to a narrative about the untimely death of a real person in the hope of comprehending something about that death — its tragic force, perhaps, or at least an expansive sense of the causes behind it.

It is a "small, perfect gem of a book", according to Jonathan Coe, who praised the novel's "tragic force" and the "reserve of authorial compassion we can sense in the gaps between each fragmentary episode and every terse, clipped sentence".

The subsequent tendency to distrust official accounts of what took place in and around Dallas – and a number of redactions made by the Kennedy clan before publication – have been used by some to devalue Manchester as a source, but the book has proper tragic force.