Sentence examples for tragic potential of from inspiring English sources

When he wrote about it at Telluride, A. O. Scott said the film "blends academic satire, classic Jewish humor and an almost Shakespearean sense of the tragic potential of the paternal bond".

Mr. Cedar, aided by a brilliant cast (notably Shlomo Bar-Aba and Lior Ashkenazi as professors in furious competition who happen to be father and son), blends academic satire, classic Jewish humor and an almost Shakespearean sense of the tragic potential of the paternal bond.

Celestina's coarse humour and ironic commentary, however, undercut the tragic potential of the situation; the vivid depiction of her character overshadows the philosophical significance of the work in its theme of the vanity of the human struggle against the forces of fate.

"My daughter died because I did not know about these things": The tragic potential of poor hygiene in Somalia GUGUH, Somaliland, 28 November 2011 - Amina, mother of seven, talks about how she came to know about the importance of hygiene practices.

With so much focus on the effects of treatment on children, it can be easy to lose sight of what may be the most tragic potential effect of all: the loss of a mother.

Update: PandoDaily founder Sarah Lacy weighs in on the tragic potential fate of her old office.

Update: PandoDaily founder Sarah Lacy weighs in on the tragic potential fate of her old office.

He made possible the significant, if slighter, contributions of Arthur Miller, whose Death of a Salesman (1949) and A View from the Bridge (1955) contain material of tragic potential that is not fully realized.

The figure of what used to be called the half-breed in a society that demands clarity of categories has tragic potential (as in Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) but here the theme is played out more ambiguously.

Karen Joy Fowler's Booker-shortlisted We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves handled the relationship of ape and human realistically, with a powerful sense of the tragic potential.

And Colin - who had such tragic potential - wasn't really crippled at all and his back hump was just a slight case of hunched shoulders.