Sentence examples for tragic proportion from inspiring English sources

These oddly assorted beings reel through "an epic burlesque of tragic proportion," as the play is subtitled, while the curtain rises and falls at a frenetic pace on scenes that hurtle from a fairy-tale landscape to the smoky back rooms of a hotel in Chicago in 1920.

This is a mistake of truly tragic proportions!

Their history has been a roller coaster of heroic and tragic proportions.

By summer of that year, I realized that in marrying I had made a mistake of tragic proportions.

To do so would be to counsel a kind of moral and psychological self-mutilation of tragic proportions.

In the course of the 1970s, the world will experience starvation of tragic proportions - hundreds of millions of people will starve to death".

Turning to Blair and the war, you say it would be "scandalous" if members of the cabinet did not pray before deciding on "a misjudgment of tragic proportions".

Tony Blair is an intelligent, rational man but, as I argued at the time and as you did, his decision to invade Iraq was a misjudgment of tragic proportions.

"That self-awareness, visible in 'Memoirs' beneath its fabrications and self-congratulation, is what accounts for Edward Teller's angst and gives him his true tragic proportions".

"In the course of the 1970's," Dr. Ehrlich wrote in "The Population Bomb," published in 1968, "the world will experience starvation of tragic proportions -- hundreds of millions of people will starve to death".

Lancaster's naturally aristocratic bearing; his clenched, masochistic sense of self-discipline; and the strange sense of emotional isolation that seemed always to accompany him come together to make Dell a figure of classically tragic proportions.