Examples of tragedy

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Here, as in the mature tragedies, the hypocrite is ready to destroy anyone if he can benefit from it.
Both women gave the impression of being dominated by their past difficulties and tragedies.
Many of them had good organisational skills which helped them to overcome tragedies and undertake reconstruction.
I suspect that most people were concerned with work, family, and the personal experiences and tragedies that make up the human condition.
What is it about focusing events, tragedies, and crises that induces politicians to consider and pass new legislation?
The third point is that tragedies include both pity and fear.
His prodigious output includes nineteen tragedies, seventeen satires and six comedies.
Wholesale elimination of these programs and institutions would trigger visible tragedies and, in turn, political redress.
In evidence, compare the current understanding of the rules of the drama with the" uninteresting, though faultless tragedies" lately staged.
Scenes of historical farce, it seems, may presage grave historical tragedies.
No company in the history of the theatre has survived on a diet of tragedies alone.
The book's suggestion that theatre plays a central role in perpetuating domestic tragedies identifies another reason that romantic poets are drawn to the stage.
The president himself preferred to placate the military by forgiving and forgetting the human rights tragedies that had beset his nation.
In the eyes of most seventeenth-century readers, such a range of emotional effects did not disqualify these plays as tragedies.
The individual tragedies around this time could certainly be immense.
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