Sentence examples for tragic stuff from inspiring English sources

It is great stuff, tragic stuff.

"Funny stuff happens right next to horribly tragic stuff".

And that's what is brilliant about Sarah's performance – she can do all the dark, heavy, tragic stuff, but she's still funny as well, she's still brilliantly funny".

Brought up by an eccentric father – an amateur taxidermist who meets a tragic end stuffing a neighbour's pet – she leaves home for a Methodist boarding house in Brooklyn.

What is truly tragic, and "the stuff of Greek drama," is that this farce has built up, over its nine years of frantic development, at a time when America itself is in a fall: Fully two-thirds of the American public tell pollsters they believe America is in decline.

But the new vocabulary of separation that we find in the media, and on the lips of the celebrity-divorcees ('More people should try it') is often light, glib, fake-tragic, feel-good stuff.

error of intermixing Comic stuff with Tragic sadness and gravity; or introducing trivial and vulgar persons: which by all judicious hath been counted absurd; and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.

He prefaced his Samson Agonistes (1671) with a warning against the error of intermixing Comic stuff with Tragic sadness and gravity; or introducing trivial and vulgar persons: which by all judicious hath been counted absurd; and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.

Anna Paquin plays a private-school girl who turns all Antigone and learns the difference between lawyers and prophets, and Lonergan has them both; his obsessive, relentless naturalism is itself an article of faith in the redemptive power of art to find transcendent, tragic grandeur in the stuff of the day.

Its dark, slow-moving textures and tragic undercurrent are hardly the stuff of crossover appeal.

The most sustained of these — the stuff of a tragic novel — involves a woman named Qi, who has come from the countryside after her husband's death.