Sentence examples for tragic grace from inspiring English sources

The performances, from actors who have all previously proved that they can shine, are decent enough, but this is a play that needs knockout acting if its trio of unlovely characters are to be compulsively fascinating and Barry's fall achieve a tragic grace.

Stamper almost attains the same state of tragic grace as the show's most complicated character – the late, lamented gubernatorial candidate Peter Russo Corey Stolll), who Underwood murdered back in season one.

It is about a dawning sexuality coinciding with humiliation and a tragic fall from grace.

For all the play's Shakespearean undertones, the production fails to make us care about either man's tragic fall from grace.

Five minutes of Howard Hawks's speedy and cynical view of hacks in sharp suits, as they themselves bend the world to fit the shape of their own cynicism, is a more bracing sight than ninety-four minutes of Stephen Glass and his tragic slide from grace.

And Sarah Palin will be portrayed as an emotionally wounded hero, bearing those internet rumors about Trig and the real truth of her daughter's "tragic" pregnancy with grace and poise.

It rarely pays to be too clever or too rich in soapland as the majority of plotlines rely upon tragic Shakespearian falls from grace which everyone laughs their socks off at".

Discover a different, darker side of Norwich as you learn about the real-life stories of murder, disease and other tragic events that have graced the streets of Norwich.

But overall it's admirably staged, has a suitably sombre look, and the oddly moving final scenes have an elegiac grace and a tragic sense that the end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service only hints at.

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, Edith Wharton's tragic novel about a fall from grace among the Fifth Avenoodles at the dawn of the 20th century (Dover; paperback, $3).

The saving grace of this potentially tragic situation we find ourselves in is that the solution is easy.