Sentence examples for tragic limit from inspiring English sources

To be and not to be, at the same time: that is the question that Moore would, if unleashed, have pursued to its tragic limit.

This is largely because many Indians still live with a sense of permanent crisis, of a world out of joint, where violence can be contained but never fully prevented, and where human action quickly reveals its tragic limits.

Forrest did not see those addicted to dangerous sensations as sinners so much as tragic figures limited or torn asunder by their appetites.

In Russia, the tragic sense is not limited to Chekhovian intellectuals or tyranny's victims.

By David Remnick In Russia, the tragic sense is not limited to Chekhovian intellectuals or tyranny's victims.

Our appearances in the press are generally limited to tragic case studies to highlight the obstructiveness of Nice in licensing new drugs, and most recently the NHS over its refusal to allow cancer patients to be treated with CyberKnife.

In "A Passage to India," E. M. Forster took a situation very like the one Wright used in "Native Son" — impermissible sexual contact between a white woman and a man of color — and built around it a textured, essentially tragic novel about the limits of human goodness.

FIDDLING ON FORECLOSURES The government's continuing failure to do anything large and serious to limit foreclosures is tragic.

Whilst Nietzsche tends to simply denounce the weakness of modern drama against the strength of the Greeks (excepting, in his early work, the operas of Wagner), Benjamin is concerned with establishing whether the historical conditions of the tragic form are themselves a limit to its contemporary efficacy.

The total tragic statement, however, is not limited to the fate of the hero.

Schopenhauer's description has limited application to tragic denouements in general.