Sentence examples for tragic insight from inspiring English sources

In the end, Mr. Cohen's Moses gains his tragic insight.

The idea of Button getting younger and younger is not imbued with any great comic or tragic insight.

"A dark comedy, moving between drollery, pathos, farce and harrowing moments of tragic insight; it's also a grey comedy, situated among backstreet have-nots subsisting hand-to-mouth in a St Albans of stint and grudge," wrote Stevie Davies in the Guardian.

The original function of the building had been forgotten for centuries, but it is now fascinatingly restored and offers a tragic insight into the darker side of German history.

Rather, what lends the movie its vast scope and its deep resonance is the exquisite and tragic psychological insight on which it runs and the brilliant simplicity with which the Dardenne brothers realize it.

This was the profound insight — under tragic circumstances — learned from the Great Depression.

The terrible price that Harriet and those around her pay for her self-knowledge justifies her closing insight — a tragic but also decidedly Southern one — that "victory and collapse were somehow the same thing".

Several tragic episodes and new insights finally taught us that the course of early brain development incurs unique risks.

Instead, she directed readers to his "wonderful observation of character, and his strange insight into the tragic secrets of the human heart".

Yet, with a remarkable degree of insight, fuelled by tragic personal experience, he soon realised that this explanatory power was itself an illusion – a weakness of the ideology, rather than a strength, and it was this insight (derived ultimately from the much earlier work of Hume) that provided the driving force behind his own critique of verificationism, both within Marxism and beyond it.

This sojourn in 1816, and its aftermath, are the focus of Howard Brenton's bold, freewheeling play 1984 Bloody Poetry, which is revived now by Tom Littler in a production which does richly textured justice both to its rumbustious comedy and its sensitive insights into the tragic existential predicament of this second generation of Romantics.