Sentence examples for tragic note from inspiring English sources

She started a gallery, which opened on a tragic note.

This tragic note is present in all great comedy.

Here, Lewis sounds a tragic note: the more civilized a people, the more vulnerable.

It ends on a tragic note, but they manage to avoid easy cynicism or fashionable despair.

The opening prayer to Diana, goddess of the hunt, strikes a tragic note.

The force of destiny is felt throughout, and Schendel's muted, sober use of language intensifies the tragic note.

At this point the film becomes a cheerful, informative hagiography, whose only tragic note is the death of his daughter Catya from a drug overdose in 2002.

But the panegyric ends on a tragic note, as Hoxha reveals that Khruschev led the Soviet Union away from the Truth.

A sense of nostalgia for a traditional world lost or for an ideal world gone wrong also gives a sometimes tragic note to Swift's indignation and suffuses Burke's complex literary output.

At the end, the novel falls into the jackhammer prose of old newsreel voice-overs, and delivers what is either the best-disguised happy ending or the most muffled tragic note of the publishing season.

Bonhoeffer's life, which was filled with drama and ended on an extraordinarily tragic note, lends itself to chronology, leading the director to move the documentary on a steady, evenhanded course.