Sentence examples for tragic predicament from inspiring English sources

There is a tragic predicament at the very centre of contemporary western culture.

Hengzhan, the most important idea in Lu Xun's later thought, indicates the complex and tragic predicament of an intellectual in modern society.

His work is permeated by a deep feeling for the tragic predicament of the Greeks, as indeed of modern man in general.

Monroe had always been fond of dogs and recognised their tragic predicament, by turns fawned on and kicked, just like her.

When we combine the evidence of billions of human-driven miles with the fact that autonomous cars will be far safer than the human drivers of today, the statistical likelihood of an individual's autonomous car facing such a tragic predicament approaches zero.

That's the tragic predicament that's befallen Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann in "The Other Woman".

This sojourn in 1816, and its aftermath, are the focus of Howard Brenton's bold, freewheeling play 1984 Bloody Poetry, which is revived now by Tom Littler in a production which does richly textured justice both to its rumbustious comedy and its sensitive insights into the tragic existential predicament of this second generation of Romantics.

But at curtain calls, no matter how tragic his character's predicament, Mr. Licitra, 34, bounds back to the stage on a swell of high spirits that all but bursts his buttons, leonine locks tossing in the breeze.

The tragic irony of this predicament is that the same populations who were shut out of the economy for much of America's history are rising to become its majority population in a few short decades.

It's clear in this biography that Taylor's own struggle with despair was eclipsed by the tragic and sometimes ludicrous predicaments of his talented and troubled colleagues.

Here, danced by Laëtitia Pujol, Odette is more like a figment of Siegfried's imagination than a doomed heroine, and so the idea of the corps de ballet of swans as an epic embodiment of her predicament never achieves tragic sweep.