Sentence examples for tragic with the from inspiring English sources

As such, it now takes quite a lot to wipe you out of the game: Adam Sandler doggedly churns out dreadful comedies, keeping himself just the right side of tragic with the occasional dramatic role, while Kevin Costner, having accepted he's a poor man's Liam Neeson, can tick along with modestly profitable movies twice a year.

However, apart from Shakespeare, Calderón, with their ironic way of mixing the tragic with the comic (LDA, 175), and the ancient Greeks, Schlegel also praised Lessing, Schiller and Goethe for having "redeemed the German theatre from its long continued mediocrity" (LDA, 424).

It appears to be the perfect setting for a film noir, equally romantic and tragic, with the Golden Gate bathed in its aura of fatal attraction.

"People want to see me as tragic with all the cottaging and drug-taking... those things are not what most people aspire to, and I think it removes people's envy to see your weaknesses".

offers a varied concert of music by Haydn (the Symphony No. 104, "London"), Bach (the Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor), Mozart, and Schubert (the Symphony No. 4, "Tragic"), with Peter Serkin at the piano and Levine conducting.

There's a clutch of classic performances to choose from: Kathleen Ferrier, gravely tragic, with Bruno Walter at the piano (Decca); Elisabeth Schumann and Gerald Moore EMII); Lotte Lehmann - turning in a performance that goes straight to the solar plexus - with Bruno Walter again (Sony).

The consequences are tragic, with maternal health epitomising the impact that underfunding can have on a health system.

*The Kennedys have a tragic relationship with the island.

Manto's life after Partition forms a tragic parallel with the institutional insanity depicted in "Toba Tek Singh".

Rosanna's tragic obsession with the adventurer Franklin Blake is among the most poignant renderings of thwarted love in Victorian literature.

And that, ultimately, may be why the circus carries the whiff of the tragic along with the smell of the greasepaint.