Sentence examples for tragic form from inspiring English sources

It belongs to Shakespeare's late experimental period, when he explored a new kind of tragic form.

The battle against books was repeated yet again – and in a tragic form – 700 years later.

As the Greeks developed it, the tragic form, more than any other, raised questions about human existence.

Shakespeare moves his readers vicariously through these life experiences while he himself struggles to capture, in tragic form, their terrors and challenges.

Corneille, not directly involved in the call for regular tragedy of this kind, nevertheless responded to Sophonisbe by experimenting in the tragic form with Médée (1635).

When a moving vehicle collides with a person on foot, this is a particularly costly and tragic form of traffic spillover.

Perhaps part of what is so appealing, so fascinating about "Mad Men" is the refusal of bourgeois ordinariness, the struggle against it, in all of its poetic and mundane and tragic forms.

Click here to view video Set in Buenos Aires and the bleak, exotic Tigre delta area 20 miles to the north, Ana Piterbarg's slow, sombre noir thriller explores the familiar theme of dual identity that's been with us in comic, romantic and tragic forms since Shakespeare's tales of separated twins, Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors.

This is the path of the metaphysical rebel, who does not see that "human insurrection, in its exalted and tragic forms, is only, and can only be, a prolonged protest against death" (R, 100).

For Gibran, the "old corrupt tree of civilization," in all its tragic forms, was "a supreme motive for spiritual awakening".

Though tragic in form, the play ends happily.