Sentence examples for tragic weight from inspiring English sources

It's our chronic inattention to that fact that keeps it from having any lasting, tragic weight.

The monumental first movement puttered along, short on rhythmic drive and tragic weight.

In Act II his romantic nobility is picturesque, without tragic weight.

It carries a tragic weight of feeling and experience that goes to the heart of this complex, compassionate film.

"The Merchant of Venice" resists attempts to bring it into the Enlightenment, let alone to make it recognize the full tragic weight of centuries of racial and religious hatred.

Moments of tragic weight in the outer movements were balanced by a sinister, mercurial scherzo and a rapt performance of the largo during which time seemed to stood still.

I have accumulated many tragic stories of efforts to lose weight.

Perhaps we could attempt to judge the novel free of the weight of its author's tragic life story?

The accomplished Verdi conductor Gianandrea Noseda gave due regard to the score's many glittering surface details yet anchored the performance with a measure of weight that tellingly underscored its tragic essence.

The letter's authors said it would be "a tragic mistake" to throw the union's weight behind Clinton right now.

During the Parliament speech, Mr. Obama did speak of the Armenia issue, saying, "History is often tragic, but unresolved, it can be a heavy weight".