Sentence examples for tragic scale from inspiring English sources
The corps of swan maidens is lovely but never on a tragic scale.
Consider an example on a more tragic scale: the AIDS epidemic in Africa has not been economically devastating because of the high cost of treatment.
Halberstam had invented a new genre, the Washington book (now published annually by the dozen), in this case on a tragic historical scale, and with a purpose: to take the reader into the lives of the men around Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, to show why their biographies and talents not only failed to prevent the mistakes of Vietnam but made them almost inevitable.
(Joe Orton's life can be made ugly and tragic because the scale of his gifts implies both conditions; but George Reeves's death is merely sad and a little sordid).
In its tragic consequences and scale — the police said Ms. Schuler had smoked marijuana and had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit — the crash stands as a horrific cautionary extreme, against which there has been universal recoil.
The musicologist Donald Tovey, writing in 1929, described the fugue as "tragic" on the scale of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 (Op. 131), although Sutcliffe argues that the movement is more strained and discomforting than tragic.
This four-piece instrumental group from Chicago does indeed play loud, chunky power chords in the Melvins tradition, but with a sense of scale and tragic drama that keeps the songs slow and reflective.
That's unfortunate on a personal level and just about tragic on a national scale.
Trump's defense secretary, Jim Mattis, said last month that any military solution to the North Korea crisis would be "tragic on an unbelievable scale".
What we are seeing here is yet another of the large-scale, potentially tragic, uncontrolled experiments that humans have conducted on their environment without intending to.
KING HEDLEY II Derrick Sanders's staging of one of the most sprawling of August Wilson's Pittsburgh plays unearths some of its heartbreak and poetry but falls short of scaling its tragic heights.
