The old Pound, dramatic to the end, made a virtue of his wrongness, and claimed it with a sort of depressed glee that may or may not merit the epithet "tragic": "The madness & cancer are nothing / the suffering is not vicarious.
Through Grzeskiewicz's eerie self-portraits, we glimpse one cat's tragic descent into madness, spurred on by the isolation and austerity of a life in a Communist state.
Based on Irving Stone's popular book, Vincente Minnelli's beautiful, vibrant film tracks Van Gogh's tragic journey into obsessive madness with unusual perceptiveness and insight.
Based on Irving Stone's popular book, Vincent Minnelli's beautiful, vibrant film tracks Van Gogh's tragic journey into obsessive madness with unusual perceptiveness and insight.
His descent into madness had a tragic resonance quite distinct from the pathos of the same descent in the film.
And "The Woman Next Door," a tense, tragic story of love unto madness (which Truffaut based in part on his own former relationship with Catherine Deneuve), casts a splendidly romantic camera-eye on its lead actress, Fanny Ardant, whose stardom and relationship with Truffaut the movie launched.
He talked just as he had ruled: walking the thin rope that separates madness from political satire, the tragic from the comic.
You hear the same tragic stories again and again, so it would be madness not to raise these issues at a policy level.
Whatever the cause of Erickson's mental disarray - LSD, schizophrenia, the trauma of being institutionalised, or some combination of the three - he became, like Syd Barrett, Brian Wilson and Skip Spence, a tragic totem of the relationship between drugs, music and madness.
Because he is so sympathetic and poetic, the madness of his jealousy seems all the more tragic.
