Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life—a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?
Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralizing over misery?
Casaubon is discovered in a fit of weeping six weeks after her wedding, the situation will be regarded as tragic.
'Der Neffe als Onkel' in a tragic sense—ungeheuer!
There is an atmosphere that is at once intense and tragic.
To give my story coherence I should describe the progress of their tragic union, but I know nothing of the three months during which they lived together.
But though I was no less convinced than Stroeve that the connection between Strickland and Blanche would end disastrously, I did not expect the issue to take the tragic form it did.
I find myself in a position to throw light on just that part of his tragic career which has remained most obscure.
I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration for him: the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice.
Now I come to the most painful and tragic part of my story.
It seems such a tragic thing.
" To the immense relief of all the girls, and especially of Josie Pye, who, in spite of lack of imagination, had been seized with horrible visions of a future branded as the girl who was the cause of Anne Shirley's early and tragic death, Anne sat dizzily up and answered uncertainly: "No, Diana, I am not killed, but I think I am rendered unconscious.
"My dear little girl, you mustn't cry like this," she said, genuinely disturbed by Anne's tragic face.
I think it would be tragic, Marilla, not to know what Mayflowers are like and not to miss them.
Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results OCTOBER was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned themselves in aftermaths.
The actor's family spoke out about what they hope to accomplish with the Matthew Perry Foundation, which was launched just days after his tragic death.
Now I suggest that you all stop looking tragic and accept the situation.
Next appeared a dark-complexioned, black-eyed, black-haired young lady, who paused an impressive moment, assumed a tragic expression, and began to read in a measured, solemn tone: Dark and tempestuous was night.
She let her hands play in the hair of the tragic boy.
Hook did so instantly, but with a tragic feeling that Peter was showing good form.
