Sentence examples for tragic mood from inspiring English sources

Wagner operas and Strauss tone poems often close pianissimo, whether in blissful or tragic mood.

And then his tragic mood is over and he becomes a buffoon, tumbling about and walking on his hands.

One is an imagined scene of Picasso's friend Casagemas in a coffin, the thick black lines and icy blues casting a determinedly tragic mood.

Bruckner's invention is exuberant throughout: the finale confidently transforms the tragic mood of the first movement into triumph, and the scherzo is a more optimistic forerunner of the Ninth Symphony's, by which time the aged composer's mood had turned to proto-Expressionist darkness.

Dausgaard ratcheted the emotional pitch of the march up to the level of hysteria, but didn't quite sustain the anguish into the finale, which was elegiac rather than tragic in mood.

The same tale was later featured in Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, which preserved the tragic and surreal mood of the original.

And she claimed the outlaw sexuality of the blues but disclaimed its mixed moods and tragic undertones.

The mood is somber, even tragic, but in the end, too easily won.

"Partial Recall" offers an engaging, diversified selection of works by eight artists that range in mood from comic to tragic.

His talent for atmospheric lushness remains intact, but what verged on the tragic in films like "In the Mood for Love" comes across here as an unremarkable moan.

Five months of exposure to Kyle's tragic exhales have deeply affected Steve's mood, particularly after his visit to an unreceptive member of the H.R. department with a handful of E.N.T. brochures.