Sentence examples for tragic paradox from inspiring English sources
The phrase "tragic paradox" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is both tragic and paradoxical, often highlighting the complexity of human experiences or events. Example: "The story of the hero who saves the village but loses his own family is a tragic paradox that resonates deeply with the audience."
Which brings us to the tragic paradox of the situation.
The movie that he made next, "Gran Torino," is a film of grand and tragic paradox and of fierce, complex personal passion — the film in which he revisits the vigilante turn that made his day back in the seventies.
This tragic paradox echoes a recurring theme of secular poetry and at the same time movingly expresses the religious paradoxes of Christ's triumph in death and humankind's redemption from sin.
Each man kills the thing he loves, Oscar Wilde wrote, but most men tend not to require a wire trap, cans of salmon, five burlap sacks, and a police whistle to put that tragic paradox into practice.
The tragic paradox of the Essex was that the captain, George Pollard, recommended that they head for Tahiti instead of remaining at sea, but the crew was fearful of encountering cannibals and overruled him.
Hinckley also, lower down in the piece, isolated one of the tragic paradoxes of the Grammy Awards: they keep trying to appeal to younger audiences at the same time that their nominations have a bad case of geezer burn.
A recent New York Times column by Paul Krugman, "Fearing Fear Itself," powerfully echoes the famous words of FDR during World War II, highlighting a tragic human paradox.
This tragic parallelism reveals America, yet again, to be a country born out of paradox – founded on freedom and built on slavery, we have emerged as a dichotomous nation with only the extraordinarily wealthy and the exceedingly poor.
He is gripped by the actor's obsession with transformation, translating body language into verbal language, tragic contradictions into comic paradox and visual images from the world around him into the muscular truth of slapstick.
He has an affectingly desperate glitter in his eyes, and he pulls some fresh-feeling expressions and postures out of the familiar paradox of the tragic clown.
