Sentence examples for tragic style from inspiring English sources

Or else they flame out in tragic style, like poor Rosie.

He makes this distinction in his De vulgari eloquentia (1304 05; "Of Eloquence in the Vulgar") in which he also declares the subjects fit for the high, tragic style to be salvation, love, and virtue.

As long as there was at least a theoretical separation of comic and tragic styles, either genre could, on occasion, appropriate the stylistic manner of the other to a striking effect, which was never possible after the crossing of stylistic lines became commonplace.

We're not too keen on tradition, and we've developed an unpleasant tendency to view people who have been disappointed in life as losers, so that beautiful, tragic Japanese-style ghost doesn't have a firmly established place in our national unconsciousness.

The tragic execution-style slaying of two Brooklyn cops this weekend has the city on edge and Mayor Bill de Blasio on the defensive.

It would seem that the fall of Brian Williams is a tragic tale of style over substance.

Do people not say it for fear of inciting Leo-and-Kate-in-Titanic-style tragic hysteria?

Stevenson achieved in this work a remarkable richness of tragic texture in a style stripped of all superfluities.

Frank Lloyd's 1922 Oliver Twist, by contrast, while it retains authentic fragments of the novel in its title cards, cleverly switches between scenes of slapstick and pathos to create a visual equivalent of Dickens's "streaky bacon" narrative style (comic, tragic, comic).

While all can be tragic, none of these style traps happen nearly as often as the crushing defeat of ruining a painstakingly-applied manicure.

1. Skip the press conference, especially when your husband is copping to call girls, gay pickups in airport bathrooms or "tragic" and "forbidden" telenovela-style love stories.