"The new Yahoo is so bad it's tragic," wrote one frustrated user.
In the end, the whole enterprise ended up somewhere between triumphant and tragic, writes Ron Judd of The Seattle Times, and Kevin Blackistone of Fanhouse.com hopes the death of the Georgian luger teaches Olympic organizers to listen to the athletes from now on.
In the tragic competition, each of three tragic poets wrote, produced, and probably acted in three tragedies on a single theme.
In the United States, Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) are surprisingly complete embodiments of the tragic form, written as they were at a time of booming American optimism, materialistic expansion, and sentimentalism in fiction and no tragic theatre whatever.
These may be some of the most tragic lines written in the past decade in Russia.
"Currier is adept at drawing a fine line between the erotic and the tragic," Erik Burns wrote here in 1999.
According to this passage, writers of comedy have the more difficult task, since they must invent names and plots for each play, while the tragic poet writes about well-known myths.
Actress Gemma Arterton is playing the title role in The Duchess of Malfi, the macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612.
Put down the spoon in your Frankenberry cereal and raise your hand if you've actually read Frankenstein, the beautiful and tragic book written by Mary Shelley in 1818.
Tchaikovsky was more attracted to A Life for the Tsar, which was the first Russian opera in the Russian repertoire in which the hero dies at the end, making it the first tragic opera written in Russia, and also the first Russian opera entirely sung, with no spoken recitative whatever.
So he set about writing a tragic tale: of how a vulnerable society, and a flawed man, could not cope with the military superiority and crushing arrogance of the white invaders.
