A recent film, tragic in structure, was Lucas Moodysson's harrowing Lilya-4-Ever, a story of a young girl who gets conned into sex slavery.
Their strategy of grouping all the plays about English history, whether comic or tragic in structure, and placing them in chronological order by subject-matter, all neatly titled after the name of the appropriate reigning monarch, made Shakespeare's contributions to the development of the chronicle play look a lot tidier than might otherwise have been the case.
Caro's repetitions sustained the tragic sense that gave structure to his book.
"Since then we have taken into account the learning from this tragic event and our structure and processes have been reviewed". A spokesman for Cambridge University Hospital said: "The trust would like to repeat the apologies previously made to Averil Hart's family and accepts the findings and recommendations in the ombudsman's report.
But though the film's structure may be tragic, its spirit is anything but.
Other architects, less impressed, point out that intersecting planes have been around for some time and that radical things can also be done, for example, with the curve, that Ms Hadid tends to neglect.Ms Hadid is often likened to Daniel Libeskind, the designer of the much-praised Jewish Museum in Berlin, a broken zig-zag structure expressing a tragic history.
The structure has a tragic past.
Tragic déjà vu, classic themes, perfect structure, flawless timing: if you'd made the Titanic up, it couldn't get any better.
The structure undoubtedly has a tragic past.
"Even as testaments to the best in engineering, the structures take on a tragic air.
