Sentence examples for tragic view from inspiring English sources

It takes a healthy organism to entertain the tragic view.

As do most of her works, the novel reflects Desai's essentially tragic view of life.

The tragic view comes closest to describing how I now look at Peter Singer.

But you couldn't ask for a clearer statement of resignation: the moral conclusion of the tragic view of life.

What distinguishes the comic novel is that it takes the spiritual rather than the tragic view of life.

Having a tragic view of life is compatible with having a positive view of our worldly duties.

This is all the more tragic in view of the fact that Correa sees himself as a builder of the nation state.

If I've learned anything from living abroad, it's that while other nations often make fun of or scoff at America's naïve optimism, deep down they envy that optimism and rue the day we would give it up and adopt the tragic European view of history.

Socrates is attempting to undermine what one might call a "tragic" world view (note that in book X, he characterizes Homer as the "leader" of tragedy; 598d8).

The rejection of the "tragic" world view becomes explicit: neither poets nor prose writers should be allowed to say that "many happy men are unjust, and many wretched ones just, and that doing injustice is profitable if one gets away with it, but justice is someone else's good and one's own loss".

The trailers for his new film, Irrational Man, frame it as another of the May-December romances that have so irked his feminist critics, this time between Joaquin Phoenix's dissolute philosophy professor and the bright-eyed student, played by Emma Stone, who sits adoringly at his feet lapping up his romantic-tragic world-view.