Sentence examples for tragic forms from inspiring English sources

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.

During a period of reorientation and transition Hofmannsthal experimented with Elizabethan and classical tragic forms, adapting Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd (1682) as Das gerettete Venedig (1904) and writing Elektra (1903), later set to music by Strauss.

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".

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

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

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

But trying to civilise his hawk turned out to be just another "tragic" form of repressing himself.

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).