| The concept of a tragic flaw, after all, is strangely comforting, even absolving. |
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| My tragic flaw is that I'm not clever enough to figure out if I'm being made fun of or not. |
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| There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. |
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| Her tragic flaw, depending on who you talk to in the family, is either stubbornness, selfishness or a love of suffering. |
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| The origins of this tragic flaw, as I call it, lie in the very origins of the UN charter itself, which is in the ashes of the Second World War. |
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| Tragedy is a story or play that has a significant conflict of morals, with a noble protagonist displaying a tragic flaw that is their strength but leads to their downfall. |
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| If pop music, as a genre, has a tragic flaw, it is that despite its placement across time, it does not provide any substantive narrative, replacing it instead with repetition. |
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| He is an extremely talented man but he has the tragic flaw of hubris. |
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| Too much updating may be the tragic flaw here, as lines of dialogue clearly meant to signal fatalistic woe are delivered in knowing, modern tones that undermine the drama. |
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| Their tragic flaw, of course, was the relatively arbitrary assignment of these functions to areas, and the belief in the corresponding shape of the skull. |
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| The tragic flaw is a central concept in classic Greek and Shakespearian tragedies. |
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| Often the protagonist of the play has a tragic flaw, a trait which leads to their downfall. |
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| The control-freak instinct runs too deep.... This runs the risk of becoming a tragic flaw. |
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| When a heroine's tragic flaw takes the form of uncontrollable love for an outlaw, the paths of momentary glory can lead but to defeat. |
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| This, to be blunt, is the tragic flaw of the modern liberal. |
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| Lear's tragic flaw is that he knows what he wants all too well. |
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| He makes the choice to kill, not because of a tragic flaw, but because of circumstance. |
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