Sentence examples for tragic glass from inspiring English sources

In a verse prologue, when Marlowe invites the audience to "View but his [Tamburlaine's] picture in this tragic glass," he had in mind little more, perhaps, than the trappings and tone of tragedy: "the stately tent of war," which is to be his scene, and "the high astounding terms," which will be his rhetoric.

He is wholly contemptuous of certain crimes against the holiday, among which he counts appetizers (they "take up valuable stomach space" and "are insulting to your own hard work"), salad ("you can have your salad tomorrow"), garlic ("it debases mashed potatoes and brings turkey meat low"), and napkins stuffed into wine glasses ("tragic").

The eyes, where the skin is among the thinnest on the body, are particularly subject to environmental and dietary abuse, heredity and the tragic fact that optimistic, glass-half-full people smile altogether too much.

Refresh your glasses tragics.

Every day, Miriam fed her fish, dusted off the glass cases of her tragic geishas, and cursed, with much gentility, her destiny as a South American.

While we desperately need to break the glass ceiling, it is tragic that we are offered two women who could compete quite effectively for a Margaret Thatcher award.

It would be tremendously helpful to break this glass ceiling and the widespread and tragic belief that only men can lead.

Wordless, white-faced Bip silently endured comic and tragic adventures: trying to escape from cages and glass boxes; attempting and failing suicide; taming lions; chatting up ladies at dinner parties.

In one of cinema's greatest monologues, the haunted Travis Harry Dean Stantonn) finally reunites with his long-lost lover, Jane (Nastassja Kinski), and retells the story of their troubled, tragic relationship through a one-way pane of glass.

Mr. Silovsky, wearing plastic glasses and a T-shirt, imagines this tragic story as a fantastical tale, using various tools (shadow puppets, plastic figures, video screens).

Water, on the other hand, she abhorred, and when well-meaning busboys approached her table with a glass of it she would make a tragic-mask face of horror and wave them away.