Sentence examples for tragic setting from inspiring English sources

MODERN literature often portrays hotel rooms as the tragic setting inside which human relationships suffer.

Hans Hubermann's soft and understated brand of strength shines throughout Markus Zusak's novel as a positive force in the otherwise harrowing and tragic setting of Nazi Germany.

When I produced a Broadway play, Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, starring the then-unknown Al Pacino, I begged the playwright, Don Petersen, to add a scene in the Riker's Island prison where the two young leads admit their affection for each other in the midst of the tragic setting.

Shallow, red-top-style headlines only reinforce shallower responses to a profoundly tragic set of circumstances.

Chief Superintendent Kevin Mulligan said: "The family have been made aware of what has occurred and this tragic set of circumstances.

As the couple at the lighthouse are drawn into an increasingly tragic set of consequences, these remote, strange lives are rendered immediate and familiar.

Desperate for a family, they take in the baby as their own, and are drawn into an increasingly tragic set of consequences.

Richly layered but concise in its depiction of comic or tragic set-pieces, this is surely the first and last book to get romantic mileage out of a meeting between Margaret Thatcher and Juan Carlos of Spain.

"Now that we have these tragic set of circumstances where Dante Exum looks like he's done his ACL and will be out, it's an exceptional set of circumstances and with proper consultation with the team, and if they all support it, I would think that's appropriate".

If we insist that the politics of racial division will no longer work, we can start to imagine the outlines of a new consensus for racial justice and focus on our shared future, rather than merely await the next toxic, tragic set of events.

"A young girl has died in what was a tragic set of circumstances.