Sentence examples for tragic gaze from inspiring English sources

This monkey may be new to human catalogues but its profound and tragic gaze suggests it knows us of old.

The reply?: "Out of me head, wasn't I?" 7. The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away by Allan Williams In later years, Williams competed with Pete Best as the worst case of what I call "Liverpool eyes" – the tragic gaze of those left behind when the Beatles conquered the world.

His opera thus shows us "the absolute solitude of the tragic characters under the gaze of the Hidden God" – by which he means fate or destiny.

To me, as a music student nearly 30 years ago, her look in that scene evoked the tragic essence of the gaze motive from the opening of Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde".

The text prompts us to read malevolence into Marlene's sometimes deadened gaze, and tragic loss into a double image of Marlene and Naomi as they looked in 1975, and into an earlier one when a beautiful Naomi dandled her baby daughter.

Thinking globally, the MC turns his withering gaze on the tragic excesses of the contemporary Madchester phenomenon: "Extasy [sic] / Acid / PCP / Crack / Can leave you cold and breathless / Laying on yo' back".

When 96 Polish dignitaries, including President Lech Kaczyński, were killed in a plane crash near Smolensk in April, the world briefly turned its gaze to Poland and its often tragic history.

Abandoning one's habitual navel gazing and reaching out to others can turn these tragic moments into opportunities of sharing and exchange.

For Inverdale to gaze upon Bartoli's stellar career and reduce it to a tragic "plan B" she grabbed at after realising she'd never be pretty enough to satisfy men like John is quite extraordinary.

The world's gaze is being directed elsewhere, towards the devastating news emerging daily from Gaza and the tragic downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

Soothing and sensitive, his liquid gaze alighting on oozing landfills and belching incinerators, he moves through the film with a tragic dignity that belies his whimsical neckwear and jaunty hats.