Sentence examples for tragic passion from inspiring English sources
As the novel progresses, we get more and more immersed in tragic passion and sexual fixation as well as more morbid pursuits.
Ronsard perfected the 12-syllable, or alexandrine, line of French verse, hitherto despised as too long and pedestrian, and established it as the classic medium for scathing satire, elegiac tenderness, and tragic passion.
Using literary analysis and psychological case histories, "The Birth of Pleasure" asks why Western civilization treasures the idea of tragic passion -- the tale of Hester Prynne and her lover, the weak-willed minister Arthur Dimmesdale, being a case in point.
She was an amazing sight: six feet tall, bronze-haired with huge melancholy eyes and beautiful skin, an English ex-debutante of 22, the daughter of an army officer, with a passion for Irish nationalism and a love for romantic poetry, "a fin de siècle beauty in Valkyrie mode", wrote Yeats's biographer, Roy Foster, "and both her appearance and character represented tragic passion".
The laughter that melodrama often elicits is in fact a sign of its aesthetic triumph — the incongruity of tragic passion in banal circumstances — but here laughter would risk rising from titters to peals precisely because of the movie's absurd lack of banality, of any sense of ordinariness.
Perhaps M. Massenet is not capable of achieving profound depths of tragic passion; but certainly he will never do so in a work like Werther".
Sirk rightly perceived melodrama as a classical genre that shifted tragic passions into bourgeois settings, thus highlighting the disproportion of those passions to the intimate banality of the action.
Apart from "A Night to Remember," movies and television have tended to ignore the Carpathia-Californian drama, preferring to use the Titanic as a lavish backdrop for tragic passions and eleventh-hour lessons about the redemptive value of love.
It has given American novels a cocky swagger that survives still: the energy of Philip Roth's prose, the sweet spin that George Saunders gives to his tales of McWorld, the tragic passions of Toni Morrison.
The genre of melodrama, which displays the grand, tragic passions that mark everyday lives while also detailing historical events that knock those lives out of joint, is close to the cinema's essence its populist and documentary roots.
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan and boasting a haunting love theme from Lana Del Ray, the film is a "great, tragic love story with action, passion, drama", said director Baz Luhrmann to the Hollywood Reporter, comparing his the casting of Daisy to the search for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind.
