Sentence examples for tragic themes from inspiring English sources

A prominent French choreographer seeks to demonstrate that great tragic themes transcend national boundaries.

Folk songs, medieval music, and references to his Roman Catholic faith characterized his subsequent work, which frequently was based on tragic themes and cast in very slow tempi.

Poussin certainly applied that principle throughout much of his career, typically employing discordant colour harmonies for tragic themes and seductive ones for tender and lyrical subjects.

Lyrics tended to focus on working-class life, with frequently tragic themes of lost love, adultery, loneliness, alcoholism, and self-pity.

"Family Plots," a series about a real mortuary, which starts tonight on A&E, can pound its tragic themes only so hard.

Middle-class writers had long wanted to do away with the traditional class distinctions in literature, whereby heroic and tragic themes were played out by aristocratic figures, while middle-class characters appeared only in comedy.

It's the central tragic theme of the poem.

Here it is further supercharged with a grand tragic theme — the past and its pitiless grip on us.

Just as the biblical theme had contributed to the grandeur of Nabucco, so the tragic theme of Shakespeare's drama called forth the best in him.

Minnelli couches the dreamlike action in a velvety, erotic moonglow that contrasts with his tragic theme: that growing up is less a matter of wonder than of pain.

Kollwitz's last great series of lithographs, Death (1934 36), treats that tragic theme with stark and monumental forms that convey a sense of drama.