Sentence examples for tragical from inspiring English sources
The word "tragical" is usable in written English, but it is considered somewhat archaic or less common
It can be used to describe something that is characterized by tragedy or evokes a sense of sorrow.
Example: "The tragical events of the past year have left a lasting impact on the community."
Alternatives: "Tragic" or "Disastrous."
How bitter, black and tragical that would be: the man who was nearly president ousted by the ingrates of his own party and state.
Roman satire has two kinds, he says: comical satire and tragical satire, each with its own kind of legitimacy.
George Villiers' play The Rehearsal (1671), which mocks the Restoration drama of Dryden and Thomas Otway John Gayy's Beggar's Opera (1728); Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb (1730); Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Critic (1779); and Henry Carey's "most tragical tragedy" Chrononhotonthologos (1734) are the outstanding survivals from an age when burlesque was cruelly satirical and often defamatory.
Did you wind up omitting anything that was new/deeper/interesting? DANA GOODYEAR: "The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch" — not new — is a deep, strange exploration of family and memory, in the vein of "Violent Cases".
The storyteller brusquely asks: "Are we watching the tragical life of a cannibal?
On the other hand, we are supposed to suspect that "The Tragedy of Arthur" (or to be more precise, "The Most Excellent and Tragical Historie of Arthur, King of Britain") is a fake Shakespeare play written by a Shakespeare-loving con man.
Polonius's list of generic possibilities captures the ludicrous potential for endless hybridizations: "tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral," and so on (Hamlet, Act II, scene 2, lines 397 399).
In Hamlet he puts these words in the mouth of the foolish old pedant Polonius: "The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral; scene individable, or poem unlimited" (Act II, scene 2).
Writing in The New York Times in 2007, Holland Cotter called Mr. King's sculpture "comical-tragical-maniacal".
We could seek, Polonius-like, to fit them back into hybrid genres: is Harvest tragical-pastoral, The Testament of Mary mythical-historical, We Need New Names comical-pastoral?
A tragical-comical-historical-pastoral novelist, if you like; or – more precisely in the case of this second book – a fantasy-gangster-espionage-romance novelist.
