Sentence examples for tragic piece from inspiring English sources

Then a second tragic piece of good luck occurred.

David Lang's choral work "The Little Match Girl Passion" might seem at first a tragic piece for a Nativity concert.

We are not quite ready to leave Dawn when the film does, when the dog is donated to Brandon's brother, who has Down's syndrome, to help him get over a tragic piece of news.

That darkly tragic piece was a study of a malicious rural society eating away at itself from within, and in this respect Albert Herring - with its Gilbert and Sullivanesque parade of local worthies, vicars, ladies of the manor and so forth - is its sunny flip side.

Mahler himself recognised the idiosyncrasies in his work, calling the Scherzo in the Third Symphony "the most farcical and at the same time the most tragic piece that ever existed .

An utterly tragic piece about the intricacies of a country and a family torn apart by war, Scorched tells the story of a brother and sister's quest to uncover the histories of their parents, while consequently discovering the truth about their own origins.

"I'm always crying and doing tragic pieces, and this is a very happy piece," she said.

David Jones of London brings English music hall songs and comic and tragic pieces from the Royal Navy on June 20.

To see the company hopping to the beat, even in the big, "tragic" pieces, was to understand that she was a choreographer rather than (or as well as) an oracle.

Consider the quaint memory of a tragic period piece like "The English Patient" grossing $232 million worldwide and winning Best Picture without spawning a single sequel.

Richly layered but concise in its depiction of comic or tragic set-pieces, this is surely the first and last book to get romantic mileage out of a meeting between Margaret Thatcher and Juan Carlos of Spain.