Sentence examples for tragic spectacle from inspiring English sources
But Fugard's family drama was only a side act to the tragic spectacle playing on South Africa's main stage: apartheid was declared in 1948, when Fugard was sixteen.
In this time of Tucson, Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., Lamar's major-label debut album, "good kid, m.A.A.d city," gives us a broad reckoning with the meaning of everyday gun violence unfolding far from the tragic spectacle.
An authentic response to the white invasion was given by the Aborigines of Australia, who simply made themselves scarce, to settler and evangelist alike, offering history the tragic spectacle of Europeans racing to contact Aborigines, either to convert or to shoot them.
What is more disturbing than the tragic spectacle of Donald J. Trump?
They're going to be difficult to guard against," she said, adding that the tragic spectacle "makes the group seem like a much bigger, broader, expansive threat — and I think that's very much what it would like to do".
With the tragic spectacle surrounding alternative spaces setting the backdrop, a light art and experimental music showcase I had spent the entirety of fall planning at a friend's loft space in Bushwick was selected for a review in The New York Times.
Ms. Moore moved with ease from the opera's bubbly first act to its near-tragic second, a spectacle of female humiliation that anticipates Bellini's "Sonnambula" (1831) and the pathetically misunderstood and suffering heroines of the operatic golden age that followed.
It is a tragic meditation on the pitiful spectacle of human unfulfillment, yet it ends with an urgent prayer of Christian hope.
Hemingway's love of Spain and his passion for bullfighting resulted in Death in the Afternoon (1932), a learned study of a spectacle he saw more as tragic ceremony than as sport.
While audiences may be moved by the tale and its tragic ending, they are also awed by the element of spectacle, with sets by John Napier, lighting by David Hersey, sound by Andrew Bruce and costumes by Andreane Neofitou and Suzy Benzinger.
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