Sentence examples for tragic propensity from inspiring English sources
Stanwyck gives an entirely beguiling performance, initially resembling a comic sprite from one of Capra's lighter movies ("Do you know what time it is?" asks her employer when she drifts in late. "Springtime!" she replies dreamily), but becoming a passionate, demanding woman with a tragic propensity for self-sacrifice and a streak of violence.
Seberg inhabited the fearless Patricia as long as she could, but when the more sensational news about her life began to trickle out, I would feel akin to her even then--her flight from her conventional hometown, her politics, her confusion about men and power, her drama queen history, her deep attachment to France and eventually her tragic propensity for overindulgence.
"Human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their constitutional ignorance of the misuse".
My propensity to unhappiness.
A tragic, tragic accident," he said.
