Sentence examples for tragic struggle from inspiring English sources

In a tragic struggle, the victors become the guilty and must make amends to the defeated".

Sholokhov's best-known work, Tikhy Don, is remarkable for the objectivity of its portrayal of the heroic and tragic struggle of the Don Cossacks against the Bolsheviks for independence.

By that time the need for national reconciliation had brought about a received interpretation of the war as a tragic struggle between noble adversaries that at least tacitly acknowledged the Confederate effort as the "Great Lost Cause". Lost or buried in that interpretation were the consequences of the war, emancipation, and Reconstruction for African Americans.

I have previously mentioned on these pages remembering as a child, seeing on TV the player Jacqueline du Pré's performance of Elgar's cello concerto, and feeling surprisingly moved by it in the context of her young death at 42 after a long and tragic struggle with multiple sclerosis, the magical skill of her arms and fingers gradually seizing up.

In a NBC Dateline documentary called Conviction, which aired in February 2012, I shed light on the tragic struggle innocent people face when they fight for freedom.

The Basque region of Spain has a history of tragic struggles and exotic ethnography to rival any ex-communist country.

Just three miles from the city's center, the Kilmainham Gaol Historical Museum (Inchicore Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8; 353-1-453-5984; www.heritageireland.ie) now houses an educational center that covers both the heroic and tragic struggles from the 1780s to the 1920s.

Louie is the tragic figure, struggling to succeed at life and failing at every turn, even when it seems like he succeeds.

Elise wouldn't like this novel any more than she liked John's stories, since most of it is a string of sometimes funny and sometimes tragic anecdotes struggling to form a coherent narrative.

All three of Schnabel's films are portraits of doomed, even tragic artists struggling with unusually challenging conditions: Reinaldo Arenas fled Cuba and killed himself in New York, having lived with Aids, while Jean-Michel Basquiat died of a drug overdose at 27.

Mr. Gay's purpose is to highlight the self-indulgent benightedness of the small-town South, the tragic and triumphant struggle with the corruption that lies at its heart.