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How to use tragic in a sentence

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To date this has been the exception rather than the rule, resulting in children becoming therapeutic orphans sometimes with tragic consequences.
The death of any relative is devastating but to lose three grandchildren in tragic circumstances is more than most of us could bear.
There is thus a mixture of the comic and the tragic, the virtuous and the villainous, the young and the old, the male and the female.
Darius, of course, casts himself in the tragic rather than the comic mould.
Or are they just using these tragic AIDS deaths to further their own cynical, and often juvenile, beefs with the Church?
This ripping read chronicles the tragic results of a loveless marriage and a passionate affair.
We have to remember that Athenian audiences would sit through nine hours of tragic performance.
The entire area is deeply shocked and saddened by this untimely and tragic death.
The excellent cast manage to tease out the humour of the play without undermining its tragic elements.
As bottle-blonde Maureen, the requisite tragic heroine, Reilly must appear naked in various tableaux vivants.
Seeing the work as a crude forebear of Elizabethan tragic drama effaces its status as an instance of de casibus literature.
For Mulholland, it would be tragic or comical for our students to choose another African language such as Sepedi as a second language.
He laughs, mocking the pose a Shakespearean actor might take during a particularly tragic scene.
Our area has suffered recently from tragic accidents and our local Garda are appealing to all to drive with caution and take care.
He was the icon in an era of icons, but like Shakespeare's tragic heroes his fatal flaws cut short a certain glittering career.
He points out to tragic dramatists that what is seen on the stage makes a deeper impression than what is only narrated.
I know it's a bit tragic I could remember, that I took so long to do it, and that I actually bothered trying to remember.
Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.
The tragic blunders of the era of reconstruction came from the lack of such magnanimous politics.
This is the Buenos Aires I have fallen in love with, full of inconsistencies, bedeviled by its tragic circumstances.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Out of eight volumes published by this poet, five are fully-wrought plays, and one is a tragic love-story told in duologue.
It was from the seneschal of the Palace that I first heard that tragic news.
If it were he, his presence there savored of mystery or it savored of the tragic.
Do you suppose I was able then to understand the sheer tragic fortitude to live of a scrubwoman!
It was tragic enough for him in all conscience, but he could see no farcical element.
For a few moments he could hardly command himself as he contemplated this tragic end of the broken home.
It is the tragic fate of all religions that they must crystallise into a system.
At the same time special pieces for the traditional tragic chorus were retained, and these received the name of satyric dramas.
It has neither the tragic gayety of Whitechapel nor the comparative refinement of Clapton.
This is the tragic side of the scrambler's career, the shadow thrown by almost every one of the class.
The comic scenes have a link of connection with the tragic ones in ambidexter, the vice and accomplice of the villanous tyrant.
The comic book convention was questioned as to its appropriateness for the tragic theme.
And there have been doubts about hair-powder and its compatibility with tragic purposes.
For so long she had acted a part, that it would be tragic to break down feebly, contemptibly, now close to the end of the drama.
These contrasts might, indeed, be tragic enough, but they are actually comic.
The second is the cause or tragic impulse of the counteraction, and stands between the climax and the fall or untying of the knot.
The pathetic devotion of Aspatia is essential to our understanding of Amintor's tragic weakness, his hamartia.
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