Sentence examples for tragic move from inspiring English sources

Wasn't this a tragic move, forcing political exigencies into disinterested learning, at literal gunpoint?

Goya and Picasso painted and etched profound, tragic, and moving pictures that depend entirely on the gore and passion of the bullfight for their greatness.

Judi Dench, who played a notable Beatrice to his Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing in 1976, said he had "a Christmas pudding of a voice, soaked in brandy"; while the director Peter Hall, who played a very big part in his career, likened it to a bassoon that could be terribly tragic, terribly moving – and extremely funny.

It's a witty, tragic, and moving comment on the fate of Puccini's operatic heroine, which, as she says, "bids farewell not only to the music of the 19th century but also to the system of polite morality of that age and its attendant institutionalised oppression of the female sex".

In a career that lasted more than 50 years, Mr. Gassman was expert in both comic and tragic roles, moving effortlessly from stage to screen while also acting as a director, a producer, a translator of plays and leading man in his own traveling repertory company.

During the term, the director of the program — plump, middle-aged, married and a fellow poet — takes him for a drive through the desert in her sky-blue car and plays a tape of rancheras sung by a woman who is, she declares passionately, her best friend and whose tragic voice moves her to "silent, dignified, unstoppable tears".

She also sang a medley of covers such as a version of "One Fine Day" that was more tragic and moving than earlier versions by the Chiffons, Carole King, or Natalie Merchant.

In the absence of this passion I was unable to get lost in what should have been a more tragic and moving Madama but I wholeheartedly applaud the magnificent voices of this classic opera.

Kevin P. Sullivan of MTV called it a "surprisingly tragic and moving rendition", but Kubicek characterized it as an "emotionally manipulative song", and West did not like the "implied condescension" of Will singing the song to Emma and gave it a "B", though she thought Morrison "sounded good" and it was a "good way to close out the show".

Anyway, the behaviors we're reading about in this story reminds me of Bodie, a longtime street-level dealer who, for better for worse, operated within the confines of the drug game's hierarchy until his surprisingly tragic and moving death.

O'Malley said that the tragic images must move Americans to act.