Sentence examples for tragic power from inspiring English sources
The novel's great tragic power lies precisely in the clash between the two.
His terrible romantic fascination with the abyss loads his paintings with tragic power.
The work begins and ends, however, with passages that convey an atmosphere of dramatic tension and considerable tragic power.
Turner could not possibly have missed it, and he responded with a painting of timeless tragic power: the "Guernica" of nineteenth-century British art.
"The Neon Bible" is, in effect, his story of the birth of music in him, and the tragic power of the dreams it awakens.
The tragic power of these prisoners as they struggle to emerge out of raw stone is an expression of the human condition that equals Shakespeare's Hamlet.
It was first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in England, and the company's interest is of little wonder: in Mr. Grace's capable hands, Mugabe rightfully deserves a seat alongside Macbeth, Richard III and other tragic, power-siphoning Shakespearean antiheroes.
It was written, after all, you declare with your customary erudite sparkle, at the height of the Bard's tragic powers – sandwiched between Hamlet and Lear on one side, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra on the other.
These were tragic tales involving power and its use.
Mr. Morris's voice sometimes seemed leathery, but he still brought vocal power, tragic grandeur and dramatic charisma to his portrayal of the guilt-ridden czar.
They are farcical when the opposition has no real chance to unseat the authoritarians in power, tragic when the outcome reflects too well the will of people bent on persecuting members of other ethnic groups.
