Sentence examples for tragic impossibility from inspiring English sources
Believe it or not, these disparate images are persuasively connected by the theme of perfection and its tragic impossibility (Johnson).
Her love for Philip, with its element of tragic impossibility, is both a redemption and a sacrifice, an exalted incarnation of a passionate dream and a paradoxical renunciation.
As a study in erotic rapture, or the tragic impossibility of ever truly possessing the object of your desire, this movie from Claire Denis might conceivably have worked in different circumstances.
And yet this might be called the fast food element of the movie to the extent that all passion is predicated on impossibility and Kechiche's lovers fall into a long line of tragic victims of sensibility including Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary (the eponymous Emma after whom Kechine's character is named).
This is certainly true; in the impossibility of being single, female and famous without being either a marriage-breaker or a tragic spin, Zellweger has, since her split from Jim Carrey, been relentlessly portrayed as the latter.
An impossibility, of course.
It was an impossibility".
"It's almost an impossibility".
