He joined others in saying that equal, if not more, credit also goes to another person who had begun to turn tragedy into redemption. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Charles Biddle, for instance, tried to ignore the entire tragedy by insisting that those who had died were all foreign-born or strangers to the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But even with the end in sight, tragedy could still strike at any moment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As I finish Soledad’s story, I know that despite her tragedies, she will go far in life, even though she will have to live with this piece of sadness inside her forever. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That they’re being dealt tragedy out of the blue, that nothing will be the same. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And within months of her starting the job, tragedy struck: Harold Washington abruptly had a heart attack and died at his desk, thirty minutes after holding a press conference about low-income housing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Fernanda never found out, nor did she take the trouble to, whether that stony silence was a determination of her will or whether she had become mute because of the impact of the tragedy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Was her face permanently creased from years of pleasing customers, or was a tragedy lurking behind that grin? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or a tragedy, which, regardless of how utterly devastating it feels in the moment, it also is not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was a great tragedy because Raymie’s father had disgraced himself. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I do hope you find the poor lost lambs. Such a tragedy.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

What did he know of the tragedy that had befallen them? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The tragedy of lameness seems so unfair to children that they are embarrassed in its presence. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must’ve just been a horrible accident, Dallas figured, no one in the wrong, but a tragedy nonetheless. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is always harder to cope with the disasters and tragedies one imagines than with the reality, however grim or disagreeable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I mean that. Moss, this hurts, and I know it’s not fun to talk about. And you know I don’t want anyone to exploit the tragedy of this just for the sake of activism.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s the entire purpose of the club. We come here and discuss tales of murder and tragedy.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Where I grew up, tragedy is all over the place. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The tragedy is we have no way of judging a mature Schubert’s thoughts on love because he didn’t live long enough to have them: he died aged thirty-one. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It’s quite some picture, it’s quite some sight, it’s quite some tragedy. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy,” Mom told me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It might not be a tragedy from your point of view, but it would certainly be a sad event for your mother and dad,” he said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Nhamo couldn’t remember the tragedy, yet somewhere inside her was a memory of flowing, spotted skin and terrible claws. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never glossed over sadness or tragedy, but he always said, “Life is such a gift!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Then, because the book is a tragedy, Heathcliff becomes what they think of him, you know? He becomes a brute. The evil in him comes out.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

If this tragedy had happened today instead of in 1963, Monday morning would have, no doubt, been set aside as an official day of mourning in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The first would be an inconvenience; the second would be a tragedy. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neutron stars would not be detected until 1967 and hard evidence of black holes not found until the twenty-first century, underscoring Oppenheimer’s achievement and the tragedy of his curiously unfulfilled career. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The pallbearers stood in a dark row behind the coffin, like a chorus of elders in a tragedy. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The tragedy of the war, on so many levels, and the apparent unravelling of the certainties of the previous century, elicited an unprecedented collective response from British composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As a country, we’d endured the shock and tragedy of the terror attacks of 9/11. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If we let these tragedies become growth experiences, if we learn from them, then we have in some way triumphed over the fear and anger and sorrow that death brings. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they saw the tragedy and humiliation of their Table, from which no man was willing to save them— knew that the Queen of it was called, by common breath, a destroyer of good knights. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn't just die in a car accident or some tragedy, Scruggs thought. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I thought this might set May off, the tragedy of a spilled drink. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which, by the way, is no tragedy to me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But they weren’t about to blame themselves for the tragedy. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The second half of the nineteenth century was, for music, all about destiny too, though since music was dominated by Germans, Italians, Frenchmen and Russians, tragedy triumphed, and it all ended in death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China and hopes they couldn’t begin to express in their fragile English. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby’s stillbirth might have remained a private tragedy for Marsha and her family had it not been for a nosy neighbor who had long been suspicious of the Colbeys. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If it’s a tragedy,” I tell him, “remind Shakespeare that he’s got a comic side, too. Challenge him to make you laugh.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Only that Persian love stories are all tragedies. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“She died on opening night of The King and I. Now she haunts the Cape Playhouse. If there aren’t fresh hydrangeas for opening night on that shelf, tragedy will occur.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The tragedy would be studied for years, become legendary. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I don't know if their torrid beginnings cast a dark shadow on them, but my grandparents' marriage was laced with hardship and tragedy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“What happened to the former world was not a tragedy. It was an opportunity to leave our past behind.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Silently Tessie inserted the links, tragedy in one sleeve, comedy in the other. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

What can one say about such a tragedy? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who have I become, Lord, that I can find distance enough to pray for such tragedy? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Embarrassed because they had cheered on a near tragedy? Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Such a tragedy,” Miss Sugarapple murmured to another teacher in the hallway. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

In South Africa, to be poor and black was normal, to be poor and white was a tragedy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Misery waited down one road, and tragedies just as great could be found down the other. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The laws were intended for her benefit—to protect her from the corrupting influence of the black man and the “tragedy” of mulatto children—but she was directly harmed nonetheless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It was a tragedy, killing him, but a necessary one.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Are we in a tragedy?” he asks, smiling broadly now. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Later, she told Kainene how afraid she was for Ugwu, how she felt as if she were about to turn a corner and be flattened by tragedy. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Both Richard and Cook had said that Clara ran off, which meant that everyone had forgotten her, her end an unacknowledged tragedy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She was a tragedy in that gym suit. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I can’t blame all this for my drinking—I can’t blame my parents or my childhood, an abusive uncle or some terrible tragedy. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A sad thing, a tragedy,” my grandfather nodded. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie Lindo and the others cried over this double tragedy, of losing my mother three months before, and now again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man who was not afflicted by ambitions of decency in his mind might simply have run away with his hero’s wife, and then perhaps the tragedy of Arthur would never have happened. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tragedy of love would unfold as the doctor could never sit by and watch the princess in such pain. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

To pretend to face the tragedy with equanimity. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Misfortune still pursues us and this morning we lost another canoe and one of the boys was drowned. Today’s misfortune is a tragedy!” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“We thought it would be a tragedy for the first woman ever in Congress to vote for war,” Paul said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Tonight we witness the spectacle of human folly and tragedy,” he said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They carried their whole lives with them in those tall, walking shadows, brought each second, each thrill and tragedy with them wherever they went. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Comedies were produced there, too, but tragedies far outnumbered them, and there was a reason why. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants to know how his tragedies play out, Jonas had said. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The school counselor had called it a "coping mechanism," my way of dealing with the tragedy. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Hailey, if Starr wants us to apologize, fine, we can apologize. Starr, I’m sorry for protesting. It was stupid to use a tragedy just to get out of class.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

If God on the Cross is God shamming a human tragedy, it turns the Passion of Christ into the Farce of Christ. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

From the wings I heard and watched the pavane of tragedy move steadily toward its climax. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it gets no easier, with time, to speak about a tragedy. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many are good church people, anchored in the religious faith of their mothers and fathers....What a tragedy! The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

You’d think people would hold tight after a tragedy like the one with Ben. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part—in which he was officially interested—of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was actually a great tragedy, what had happened. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone here constantly laughed at tragedy, as if insulting misfortune would keep it at bay. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though tragedy lingered discreetly around her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You all have had so much time to take advantage of the city, and you haven’t done anything? That is some kind of tragedy.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

We'd been so close to tragedy, and yet here we were, reclaiming our lives. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Harriet Monroe, who knew him and his wife, wrote, “His genius was betrayed by lofty and indomitable traits of character which could not yield or compromise. And so his life was a tragedy of inconsequence.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Only rain, marauding waves of black ocean and the flotsam of tragedy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Local survivors of tragedy are invariably quoted on TV as saying something like, “I can’t understand it. Nothing like that has ever happened around here before.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tragedies that happened to Africans were not mine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the answer to much of the tragedy of our young people.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another sense, the tragedy of the once master pickpocket made him, for those brother old-timer hustlers, a “there but for the grace of God” symbol. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying so hard to put that tragedy far behind me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It's possible she actually prevented another tragedy from befalling our family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The countryside was in an uproar the next day when news of the tragedy got around. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Defying the storm that threatened, the clouds that curtained the sun now pass, and we three survivors of a long-ago tragedy stand together in silence, beholding one another in the sun’s light. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The conversation in the rotunda was, of course, all about the Tonist cloister tragedy. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After the disastrous events of the night of July 31, 1943, Yevdokia thought hard about how to avoid the tragedy being repeated. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The songs, the corridos became sad, and the meeting of the people from Texas with my forefathers was full of blood, murder, and tragedy. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a dreadful scene, like something acted in a tragedy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She never dealt the tarot cards, just kept on shuffling, Ivy’s fresh tragedy forgotten for a while. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Usually, work was work and home was home, but for us, as for many people, the tragedy in Newtown shattered every window and blew down every fence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Or they would speak about the potato fields of Colorado, and the tragedy that befell them there. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But out of the violence and tragedy came opportunity. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Jackson said, “Little Charlie, I hope you won’t mind riding ’long and showing me the place in the woods where this tragedy befell your pa.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I met with Mr. de Klerk in order to find common ground and avoid a repetition of another tragedy like Bisho. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Air Marshal Saundby said, among other things, was this: That the bombing of Dresden was a great tragedy none can deny. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know it would be superpowers rising up out of tragedies, and perfect moments in a nearly empty classroom. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Before Alfy the present watchman took over, there was a tragedy in the Bear Flag Restaurant which saddened everyone. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought not only about these two bonobos but of the stream of homeless refugees, of my dead friends in the sanctuary, of the larger and yet-unknown tragedies elsewhere in the country, in the world. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

If some spark does set the keg afire, it will be a senseless tragedy of ignorant against ignorant, injustice answering injustice—a holocaust that will drag down the innocent and right-thinking masses of human beings. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My sisters and I did not put it into so many words,” she recalled, “but we knew that tragedy had moved into our home, and we knew, too, that our lives would change.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Gareth untied her hair—and suddenly she was off, running for all she was worth away from the tragedy, toward the castle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

These same doctors advised Cadence’s mother to stop explaining the tragedy if Cadence could not recall it herself. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Though I knew there was human suffering out there, it wasn’t like there was a tragedy scale where some things outranked others, or that care given to a bonobo meant less left for people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Warner nodded sympathetically, like he agreed this was some kind of tragedy in Dad’s life. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the instant when we come to realise that tragedy is second-hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a short time to know and to love someone, but it was six years of good memories, versus a few seconds of tragedy. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There’s the Thinking of You card with a long handwritten message that Father Anthony sent after the tragedy. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

With so many marginally qualified climbers flocking to Everest these days, a lot of people believe that a tragedy of this magnitude was overdue. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A friend of the family found this single remaining photo and sent it to us years after the tragedy—a little postcard from another world. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In all such local tragedies time works like a damp brush on water color. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a foreboding about her as though she were carrying tragedy within herself. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were also crying from a terrible tragedy. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

However, with my mother acting as director, the inherent tragedy would soon become melodrama. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Columbine High School tragedy made the Freedom Writers realize how fortunate they were. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

While everyone around us talked about the tragedy and asked themselves where he had been, the old man came back down the driveway to inspect the body of his daughter's estranged husband. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Although she was serene by nature, life had dealt her enough blows and she had suffered enough tragedy that sometimes she had to work to stave off the anxiety she felt. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Antonio was released from the hospital, his mother sent him to live with relatives in Las Vegas, where he tried to recover from the tragedy of Jose's death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Despite our recent tragedies, he seemed less stressed about this new development than I was. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Upstairs they complain bitterly, but we don’t think it’s such a tragedy. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know yet if that’s a tragedy or a very good thing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He’s upset because the tragedy has also affected him, of course. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And for the first time, I distance myself from the personal tragedy that has consumed me since they announced the Quell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

To make our tragedy—because it is our tragedy, really, the whole country’s—to make it into a money-making enterprise. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If sentencing were the only stage of the criminal justice process in which racial biases were allowed to flourish, it would be a tragedy of gargantuan proportions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“An entire new generation of refugees. An entire new generation of orphaned children. Too much trauma. Far too many tragedies. And for what?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you realize, Gus, that this is the tragedy of this poor woman’s life. She’s always been alone. She needs someone. She needs love.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Mr. Waters, I am in receipt of your electronic mail dated the 14th of April and duly impressed by the Shakespearean complexity of your tragedy. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard the story of your parents. A tragedy suitable for a ballad.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I looked up tragedy in my pocket dictionary. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem right to me that the Captain should be robbed of the chance to tell his own tragedy. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only external trace that the tragedy left was the bandage of black gauze that she put on her burned hand and that she wore until her death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As I wrote at the outset of this book: The chilling truth is that Wes’s story could have been mine; the tragedy is that my story could have been his. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But one day, in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy, I’d woken up in the spotlight. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to make sense of such a tragedy, surely it is, but the good Lord works in mysterious ways. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Every time I thought of him, I lived the horrible tragedy all over again. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As drunk as he is, Atzerodt does an artful job of pretending sadness, saying that the whole Lincoln assassination is a terrible tragedy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In our top story, tragedy in Oak Ridge this afternoon, where two young men in an SUV were shot at a traffic light. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He spoke for a few minutes about the tragedy of strife between the communities. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered what tragedy so many had found to lament out of doors. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Christmas, Mrs. Finley gave me paperback copies of both the comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Like a child touched by tragedy, who grows up suddenly and abandons his playthings, Chacko dumped his toys. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We understood that we represented the nation and were obligated to step forward and be present when there was tragedy, or hardship, or confusion. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

‘A tragedy like that creates a lot of angry spirits.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Not long ago archaeologists with new techniques unraveled the tragedy of Cahokia, near modern St. Louis, which was once the greatest population center north of the Rio Grande. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But my story is still more complex. I have taken part in such a drama as would only be believed on a stage, a tragedy ending in the death of kings and princes.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Everyone says that our living with Grandpa Ted helped him cope with the tragedy as much as it did Mom and me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

On the dais, the ancient tragedy was being replayed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My ones are a distance between me and victory, not days between me and tragedy. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mom seemed to think they would be canceling classes at the high school today and sending everyone home early because of the tragedy with Mike Costello. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isolated but vivid tragedies involving a few people should not blind us to the fact that myriad prosaic activities may involve a much higher degree of risk. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would be something of a tragedy if it stopped there,” I admitted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And Tiny says to Jane, "I mean, it's such a tragedy, isn't it? The only thing Grayson has going for him is that he's adorable, and yet he refuses to date." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It just seemed like another teenage driving tragedy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I tell myself I’m happy for the two of them, and I promise myself that I will tell her he’s perfect for her, and that I’m so glad my tragedy has brought them together. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“But after while you need come by yourself. I cannot be away from the field too much—it would be tragedy.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"It's a tragedy, that's what it is," he said, shaking his head. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In light of this, the Review points out that those of Japanese descent on this island are not responsible for the tragedy at Pearl Harbor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“After the tragedy, I said, ‘Mabel, now that you’re out of a job, why don’t you come give me a hand at the cafe. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, the next night they still had to take off and fly back to the front in the dark as usual, numbed by tragedy and fear and exhaustion. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Were you at any time acquainted with a family of the name of Armstrong—a family in which a tragedy occurred?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

With imagined tragedy hovering over us, we became inseparable, two halves creating the whole: yin and yang. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joining us this morning is someone who has a personal investment in this terrible tragedy: our special guest, presidential hopeful Ladybird Hope. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You are our chosen child, our only daughter. We missed so much of your life, and we cannot erase some of the tragedies.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so that Scythe Curie could avoid it, but so that Citra could experience it and learn how to show compassion in the face of tragedy. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was years before this tragedy was made public. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the tragedy was over, and he had been called for and hooted, I said to Herbert, “Let us go at once, or perhaps we shall meet him.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I understand, now, the tragedy of my childhood. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a street tragedy with spontaneity tucked softly into the corners of a highly formal structure. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He feels a twinge of guilt that on some deep level, he’s thankful for whatever tragedy has occurred, because it’s forced them together. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then, telegraph lines hummed with brief accounts of the tragedy, and these details were passed from city to city. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, he must have many, many tragedies to keep track of. I suppose they nourish him in some terrible way.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the years immediately following the flood, Boston’s citizens, most of whom were determined that such a tragedy never take place again, voted overwhelmingly to increase the budget of the city’s building department substantially. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He didn’t either, I thought, but he had enough mental power left to give me one last lesson in tragedy. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second I thought she was going to run into my arms as if we were reunited lovers in some overacted Aturan tragedy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Milton grinned at her, perspiring in pinstripes, and once again the tragedy cuff link glinted in the sim. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Funny moment in the middle of a. tragedy. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if you remember how the film we saw at the Petersburg Battlefield ended as though the fall of the Confederacy were the onset of a tragedy, not jubilee. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This has been a whole terrible time, from the beginning of the drought that left so many without food, and then the night of the ants, to now, the worst tragedy of all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As an adult, you know these things occur, horrible tragedies,” he says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was a big bear of a man who didn’t think twice about offering me a hug in the face of this tragedy. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

It is a tragedy that happens often to anyone who acts as a buffer. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Which is fair, since the only things I know about him are that his name is Rufus, he rides a bike, he survived a tragedy, and he wants to be the Mario to my Luigi. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Therein, of course, lay the chief problem and the makings for an apparently inevitable tragedy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She liked the parts about how the Kennedys were like kings and queens in America and how tragedy followed anyone named Kennedy. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“How dreadful! I’ve just realised—that table’s down there and were up here. What are we going to do? We’re here and it’s there. It’s an awful tragedy—awful! But oh, it’s terribly comic!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was just one of those unexpected tragedies, that just smacked me over the head as soon as I turned around. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

This way he gave the sensation of coming tragedy. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

What can ever explain this kind of tragedy? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Shakespeare wrote tragedies and comedies, so which do you feel like you’re in when he talks to you?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The women in the Delta knew I had risen above the tragedy of the church bombing, and they loved and admired me for that. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the citizens of Chicago soon realized that they didn’t have much time to feel self-pity or even to reflect on the scope of the tragedy. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were people who just felt they had to come, to see the site of such a tragedy and pay some kind of respect to those who had died. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

If he chose, he could rush to the door, throw it open, hold her in his arms, and weep with her at the tragedy just barely averted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She did not understand their tragedy, their search for the freedom that was now forever gone. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if no one knew what to do in the face of such tragedy except to make the heaviest, heartiest, most prosaic dish they could, to give the bereaved something solid to hold on to. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now the judge remembered; her mother had written her about the tragedy. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

To them, the tragedy happened a while ago. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had seen a near view of its eye, now quickly fading, and this had brought the tragedy home to him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Will the sun forget to streak?’ is no hysterical outburst of operatic tragedy, nor is it a plaint of sentimental, self-indulgent misery. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Wondering whether I have or want one, trying to decide if the end of existence is a tragedy, a comedy, or as inconsequential as that chem lab I forgot to turn in last week. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The tragedy is so old that its horror has leached away and only a certain air of faithlessness and melancholy clings to the stones and shadows of the house. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if as if this tragedy marked the end of the family. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It has suspense, tragedy, startling developments—a soap opera growing out of the ground. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are simply no doctors and nurses left on that continent. It’s an absolute tragedy! African doctors should stay in Africa.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Later that year, both joy and tragedy struck the Garfields. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Like the old proverb that says that the darkest hour is before the dawn, the tragedy of Bisho led to a new opening in the negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought it would feel like a tragedy, but it didn’t feel like anything at all. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, as a filmmaker, Yevgeniya made that child “a symbol of the great Russian tragedy of the millions of homeless, orphaned children.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the newscaster gravely reminded us that this new tragedy sealed the final ending to “our nation’s Camelot story,” Big Ma said, “Yes, sir. It surely does.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Nor was King content to just enumerate the tragedies for Vietnamese civilians and American servicemen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

If he learned to enjoy gleaning, would it be such a tragedy? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She still wanted him to serve jail time and she wanted something good to come from the tragedy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s kind of a tragedy that the Hameeds don’t celebrate Halloween. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He knows no art but tragedy—a moving singer. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if my ending hadn’t carried the terrible tragedy of the song to anyone but myself? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes—a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, he had positioned himself as head mourner of the Anderson tragedy. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

What called out to him from Guernica was both the terrible tragedy of what had occurred and the enormous power of art to explain and ultimately defeat man’s most evil impulses. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We were like actors who, knowing the play by heart, were still able to cry afresh over the old tragedies and laugh spontaneously at the comic situations. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

King George sending a fully armed battalion to remind the colonists of his love as Enchantress Eva predicts tragedy for a ragtag group of wizards. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She tries not to listen to what Ilene is saying about her run and the tragedy. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They carry, half concealed within their medical terminology, stories of such human tragedies as that of two young cousins in Czechoslovakia, boys who lived in the same town and had always worked and played together. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As her friends came up to murmur their condolences they would feel awed by the scale of her tragedy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The couple at least had each other; it was the young woman who seemed the most likely candidate for tragedy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Opera composers from all over Europe were drawn to its glitz and glamour, and the prospect of getting rich from musical tragedy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some love stories are tragedies—epics, spanning years, and built on dramatic irony, wars, Russian winters, and hours of film. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In the end, some eighteen hundred people died, and more than half a million others were displaced, a tragedy exacerbated by the ineptitude of the federal government’s response. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was a canine feeling, full of eager love, and dumb to tragedy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Our fight back in the valley had dissolved in the thick brew of tragedy, no more than a seasoning that we might pull out later on. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But on a brighter note, my strange, tragedy- induced popularity at school was growing. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Levy made a gesture that indicated acceptance of injustice and tragedy. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby felt that journalists weren’t really interested in how or why he moved the chess pieces, but rather in the scandal, tragedy, and comedy of his life. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the tragedy began on the day of my wedding, then. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Worse, the swelling affects everything but your head, so you’re forced to watch the whole tragedy unwinding right in front of your eyes!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

From her I learned the glory and the tragedy of the history of my people, and I came to understand how that history stirred in my blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Cook had lived through more than one tragedy at Daffodil Manor, and she took over the management of the household as she always did, without a complaint and with an iron will. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

If I had never encountered Volpe, I suspect I would be a lawyer like my father—no tragedy, but not what I think I was meant to be. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It satirized the familiar, everyday tragedy of a chaste young girl, with below-shoulder-length blond hair and udder-size breasts, being criminally assaulted in church, in the very shadow of the altar, by her minister. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

These newer magicians have been the cause of great tragedies and terrible disasters these many years. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Face-to-face with those whose lives hang in the balance, they are far closer to the human tragedy occasioned by the drug war than the legislators who write the laws from afar. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ben came over then, and said, “Are you trying to be subtle? Because I know you’re talking about the honeybunnyless prom tragedy that is my life.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Yes, of course, the accident was a tragedy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Gone are the posters of death, psychological torment, superheroes and tragedy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The sprawling Tudor monstrosity in the plutocrats’ retreat of Tuxedo Park, New York, had been built at the turn of the century by a wealthy banker and abandoned amid the grief of a family tragedy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He proved to be a surprisingly good swimmer, and was making steady progress across, the dog swimming alongside, when tragedy struck. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aunties hug one another not because they are freed of the weight of Clairmont house and all it symbolized, but out of tragedy and empathy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Stories of loss and tragedy, and how people overcome losses and tragedies. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Briony nodded and faced away, as though grappling with tragedy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The mask for tragedy, her eyes like knife slashes, her mouth a boomerang of woe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“And that is why the play is called a tragedy,” said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You concealed the fact that at the time of the Armstrong tragedy you were actually living in the house. You told me that you had never been in America.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘While deeply saddened by the tragedy in Littleton,” she wrote Tuesday, “I am appalled at the resulting backlash our students are forced to suffer.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother never talked about her life in China, but my father said he saved her from a terrible life there, some tragedy she could not speak about. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tragedy of the Moriori resembles many other such tragedies in both the modern and the ancient world, pitting numerous well-equipped people against few ill-equipped opponents. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was at this point that I understood that a tragedy was in the process of occurring. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

His first thought, as always, is of finding a way to spin the tragedy for his own personal gain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I am the perpetrator of a foolish, deluded crime that became a tragedy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

"Are we just watching a tragedy play out?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie said nothing, and the other passengers stumbled and lurched back to their seats after getting their eyeful of the tragedy on the street. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Will I name him? Will I name him? Of course, I will name him, but he will only die like the others. Oh, so sad. Oh, such the tragedy.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

My father says, wouldn't you think the Jews, because of the tragedies they went through in Europe themselves, would have remembered this? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Immersed in my own experiences, it was with horror that I heard, toward the end of my year’s travels, that yet another tragedy had struck the Dumbledores: the death of his sister, Ariana. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Yet the remaining children, Cadence, Liberty, Bonnie, Taft, and Will, they know that tragedy is not glamorous. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Eleven hundred kids were absolutely convinced that the eighth grade president had come to tragedy. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He had acquired his nickname from a tragedy that had cast its shadow over his life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he’d once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Other people’s tragedies should not be the subject of idle conversation. There was no reason for me to tell you.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know what’s good for you. You have no taste buds. A double tragedy.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Leave it to a child to bring humor even in tragedy. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Though there are only inches between them, for an instant his father is a stranger, a man who has kept a secret, has survived a tragedy, a man whose past he does not fully know. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Black folk had been conditioned to look the other way when tragedy struck, especially if the victim was one of their own. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was sorry that Bone Gap seemed to be cursed somehow, big losses salted with tiny tragedies almost too insulting to bear. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And in this reflexive gesture, the dimensions of our tragedy are laid bare. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I wept as much for the glory of two voices so perfectly enmeshed as for the tragedy of the song. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And he thought it was a tragedy that these tiny miracles would disappear. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

That is how the greatest minds in history have survived tragedy. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The tragedy that’s coming will finish the season for him, the only good thing to come out of what’s about to happen. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Never,” the Fire Department reported, “was so terrible a tragedy witnessed by such a sea of agonized faces.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, after being confined to a train car until you wither away and die, but a tragedy nonetheless.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A casualty of war—be it at the hands of a Nazi soldier, a sniper in Sarajevo, or a gang-banger on the streets of America—is a universal tragedy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He won’t ever forget her, or the tragedy of her death. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She was a regal matron, but with a bitter smile on her face that revealed her inner tragedy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right then there was the whole tragedy of the fire staring us in the face. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Virtually every other journalist who wrote about the McCandless tragedy drew the same conclusion. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the last of the areas where demonstrations took place was the most calamitous and the one whose name still echoes with tragedy: Sharpeville. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tragedy underscored the necessity of shielding the high voltages at play in the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Once again, in the wake of this tragedy, the police and the government took no action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a coast-to-coast call went out for even more demonstrations, he worried: Would this tragedy become the cause of scores of others? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had not forgotten though; he’d been only seven that winter of ’59, but the memory of the tragedy would always be sharp and terrible in his mind. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was used to hearing about tragedy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Innocent of the tragedy that threatened it, the town poured into the main square in a noisy explosion of merriment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And wherever or whenever this kind of tragedy occurs, it affects us all. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the tragedy was supposed to have happened. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The tragedy in all this is particularly great because for nearly a decade, there has been strong reason to suppose that Fischer could demonstrate his supremacy convincingly if only given the opportunity to do so.... Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only thing that does the tragedy justice instead of patching it up hastily and moving on. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The only real tragedy was that there were no chocolate shops. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

When you got someone as old as Herman E. Calloway crying you better look around, ’cause you know you’re square in the middle of one of those boiling tragedies. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They’ve spent decades here prolonging the brief lives of the undernourished, accustomed completely to the tragedy playing out around us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liza with her acceptance could take care of tragedy; she had no real hope this side of Heaven. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Can the research being done here, and by a new generation of neuroscientists, prevent similar tragedy? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I watched him write, It’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to live only one life. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If we multiply by a hundred thousand our sense of loss for this work of Aristarchus, we begin to appreciate the grandeur of the achievement of classical civilization and the tragedy of its destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve known our client before and I know the area, and it’s just another tragedy in that part of the city. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go and bring that boy down to his dinner, tell him it’s all right, and advise him not to put on tragedy airs with his grandfather. I won’t bear it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When one or both of us traveled somewhere in the wake of a tragedy, it was often to remind Americans not to look too quickly past the pain of others. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She acts like it’s her personal tragedy and hers alone. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately,” she began, “sometimes people just don’t know what to say when there’s been a tragedy. Maybe J.T. and Digger feel like they need to give you some space for a while.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I regarded this as a tragedy, for Dr. Moroka’s faintheartedness in court took away some of the glow from the campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That they marched heedlessly to tragedy is a subtler one. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was just a bit of compassion in Fischer’s eyes, which turned the episode into a true Aristotelian tragedy: Spassky’s terror combined with Fischer’s pity. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In his words, “One of the great tragedies of man’s long trek along the highway of history has been the limiting of neighborly concern to tribe, race, class or nation.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

‘Out of every tragedy,’ he said, ‘comes new strength. Today, we thank the gods for this victory. To the gods!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She reaches into my bag, digs around, and finds the card that almost led to tragedy. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Everybody—his parents and every one of his seven brothers and sisters—had treated him gently since the tragedy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then again, after the tragedy, he had nightmares so bad, his mom slept in a chair in his room. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Before Alfy the present watchman took over, there was a tragedy in the Bear Flag Restaurant which saddened everyone. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been through a lifetime of tragedy and war, and they always managed to keep going. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This ecological tragedy was restaged in miniature countless times after the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several people who were on Everest last May have told me they’ve managed to move beyond the tragedy. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about his family and about the victim’s family and the tragedy the crime created for them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But people also turned inward to their private joys and tragedies to escape the pervasive fear and despondency. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to the other tragedies, which were dominated by recognizable principles of justice no matter how harsh, it was a triumph of barbarism over reason: dark, chaotic, inexplicable. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But there would be time, for this tragedy was bound to bring them closer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Truly, all the more’s the tragedy; the second thing to go is a man’s memory.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not only did we make it past all these small obstacles, but also through a wide range of triumphs and tragedies. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The heart of tragedy does not lie in stealing or taking away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was a real tragedy ’cause these was the first and only set of new clothes I ’spect I’ll ever get in my life. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

But it gets no easier, with time, to speak about a tragedy. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the bleak indie movies, they don’t get the happy ending; they get a tragedy. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He did not know he was doing so, and perhaps it may have been due to her, but it seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has no rival in Greek tragedy except the four plays of Sophocles about Oedipus and his children. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was the worst tragedy of all. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“The tragedy is that we are today engaged in two wars and we are losing both,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

After delivering a moving eulogy for Reverend Pinckney and acknowledging the deep tragedy of the moment, Barack surprised everyone by leading the congregation in a slow and soulful rendition of “Amazing Grace.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On November 17 a pall fell over the campus when, just at the height of the festivities, tragedy struck. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Despite the tragedy afflicting me, despite not feeling well, I let out a laugh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

To forestall such a tragedy, I wrapped them in blankets to keep them from rubbing against the metal hull of the lifeboat, and I moved them as little as possible to reduce wear and tear. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Really gives a feeling for the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn’t it?” said Ron, pushing open a door to let Harry and Hermione through. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Greek tragedies with their revenge, suffering, and extreme sorrow are roughly equivalent to dealing with my mother, so an intervention from Zeus or Athena seems a fair ask. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In the wake of the Columbine tragedy, the Freedom Writers felt even more committed to preach peace. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid that when it’s over, it will be over and it will be back to business as usual, and that would be a tragedy.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although there were elements of tragedy and struggle in the Fifth Symphony, he had read, it was principally music of love and happiness. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was also a great tragedy because Raymie was now fatherless. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Certainly time had as much to do with the tragedy as the weather, and ignoring the clock can’t be passed off as an act of God. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Among the many other consequences of the Columbine High School tragedy: The cost of being different just went up. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper king's later years were marred by tragedy. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All it shows is that you’re trying to make something good out of this tragedy. “I was going to sentence you to ninety days,” the judge said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s actually about a young girl who gets shot in a war and is dying in the arms of her really hot friend, but if you smile through such a tragedy, it disarms the audience. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The tragedy is that this movement to end slavery did nothing to improve conditions in Louisiana. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Watching from the cab, Milton came face-to-face with the essence of tragedy, which is something determined before you’re born, something you can’t escape or do anything about, no matter how hard you try. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The first thing the principal said was, “I guess you’ve all heard about the tragedy that took place in Soweto yesterday.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There, there, old girl. Don’t fret. Many times in our history has tragedy been forestalled by miraculous happenings.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the time immediately after the church bombing, no one spoke of the tragedy or the girls who died. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

John's education had led not to liberation and progress but to violence and tragedy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how the blade Had been made, but I sensed a tragedy. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And the bright autumn days of 1943 continued to hold tragedy for the 125th Guards, despite their proud new name. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After hearing one of Lander’s orations, she arranged for the distribution of his autobiography; the printer had previously put out a line of Shakespeare’s tragedies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

With a lifted head he raised their tragedy to nobleness and gravity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Radar, your failure to bop that lovely honeybunny is the greatest humanitarian tragedy of our time.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was upset, pained at having been part of the tragedy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It seemed like the most benign of tragedies that she didn’t like the chocolate ice cream nearly as much as she had the vanilla. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Communists who doubted my motives did not know these boys, their twisted dreams, their all-too-clear destinies; and I doubted if I would ever be able to convey to them the tragedy I saw here. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terryl connected to people who suffered tragedy, in a very personal way. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s been great, amazing, to have someone her own age around, someone who doesn’t just see the burnt wick of tragedy when he looks at her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Had I protested that I would like Dolores to go along, we might have been spared a display of violence and near tragedy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the way Dorothy would have wanted to take the next step in her career, but Blanche’s tragedy pushed her up the ladder nonetheless. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They watched the trains and smelled the ashes, ignoring tragedy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the next eight hours, I run after the agile Gail, absorbing bits of instruction along with fragments of personal tragedy. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She almost smiled, but then fixed her face, probably so as not to gloat over Miss Trotter’s family tragedy. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Polly hurried down the stairs and out to the kitchen, desperate to avert a tragedy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tragedy opens with a scene showing a rich and varied population of large animals, without any trace of humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was well suited to my mood, full of dark humor, tragedy, and betrayal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Clio was Muse of history, Urania of astronomy, Melpomene of tragedy, Thalia of comedy, Terpsichore of the dance, Calliope of epic poetry, Erato of love-poetry, Polyhymnia of songs to the gods, Euterpe of lyric poetry. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an odd manuscript; in the midst of the profoundest personal tragedy, sinking into economic ruin, he wrote brilliantly funny columns. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy III Euergetes wished to borrow from Athens the original manuscripts or official state copies of the great ancient tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am, I believe they do. Even a tragedy such as this.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay, and my picture reminds me that no one thinks about the tragedy that results when places are bombed,” Lauren says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In Capitol terms, I’m guessing this counts as a true tragedy. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fair buildings were complete and all exhibits were in place, but just as surely as silver tarnishes, the fair became subject to the inevitable forces of degradation and decline—and tragedy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The tragedy of that summer had never impressed Jethro so deeply as it did that afternoon when the dates stared up at him with terrible significance. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an instant a flood of sadness and tragedy had overtaken everyone, and I began to worry that it would be impossible for this family to leave Herbert. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“In the wake of the Tonist tragedy, conclave takes on a certain...resonance, don’t you think?” she heard someone say. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Charlie's grandmother had died a few months after she first called me, and his mother was still struggling after the tragedy of the shooting and Charlie's incarceration. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There are many tragedies that could be stopped if only we spoke up more often. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We will give aid and comfort to those who have been injured and to those who have lost loved ones in this tragedy. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But a hero’s story always ended in tragedy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Was it because of the time she’d taken off, or the fact—as she was starting to realize—that she had no desire to tunnel into hard stories and bitter tragedies? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Al’s too big for the body bag; what a tragedy. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The stage is set: the curtain rises slowly on the great tragedy of the Osage—the long-awaited federal trial of two old-time cowboys,” the Tulsa Tribune reported. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She did not want to accept her own responsibility for the tragedy of Elowen’s life. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

While both my grandmothers led extraordinary lives marred by drama and tragedy, they were ultimately very different women. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Out of the horrific tragedies of lynchings and race riots would come an awakening of black America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The difference between Euripides’ Medea and Apollonius’ heroine and also Virgil’s Dido is in its degree a measure of what Greek tragedy was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Martin Adams, distrustful of reporters, kept a low profile in the aftermath of the tragedy and eluded my repeated attempts to interview him until after the Outside piece went to press. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

What seemed a tragedy in the beginning of the year was now a blessing. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In parts, at least, it was a funny story, and yet to hear Rat Kiley tell it you’d almost think it was intended as straight tragedy. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dude really knows how to paint a picture of tragedy. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every night I pray and ask for help making sense of the tragedy. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“Yes, that exactly what I mean. If weed and insect win, would be tragedy. We would starve, so would others. So I must not take break. So deshō.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And it will be a tragedy only because Sam died in a place she didn’t really belong to. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the tragedy at Elsinore, news of it had reached France, along with a rumor of a royal heir in hiding. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was tragedy, certainly, in Milton’s expression as they left me off at the library. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She seemed determined to grow tragedy out of herself like a bad haircut. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the age of ten I’d check the Daily Prophet first thing every morning—certain some sort of tragedy would have befallen it—certain I wouldn’t get to go. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

But it was another tragedy in her life that deepened the abyss of shame and grief she'd readily succumbed to. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The tragedy is that as I sleep, I believe it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In his new play he seemed to have gone even further in his blend of comedy and tragedy. Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on 2012-05-25T21:55:04Z

And she didn’t want to address the murders directly: “I cannot get paid for somebody else’s tragedy.” Roma Tell Their Stories in a Dance-Theater Work From Berlin 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

But it also belongs the world of classical tragedy, where symbol and substance meld seamlessly, as do poetry and prose. Review: ‘In the Blood’ and the Singular Talent of Suzan-Lori Parks 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

“Comedians I know, like Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin, are some of the best human observers. Comedy has deep insights into our human defects that somehow affect the audience more deeply than tragedy.” Marion Cotillard: ‘Before my family, everything was dedicated to the character’ 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

Caron tells me that his earliest, 90-minute cut of the Aberfan episode – with its profoundly affecting material about a mining community turned upside down by an unspeakable tragedy – “was like a Ken Loach film”. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

The pandemic hits, the world goes to garbage, my family and I are slammed with a series of setbacks and outright tragedies. During a dark year, a dream realized: How the pandemic brought me back to school 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Nichols once told the Times that all the plays and films he directed were about the comedy and tragedy that grow out of self-delusion, which he believed to be a universal trait. Mike Nichols, ‘The Graduate’ director, dies

My way of grappling with these matters is that I don't want people to leave the movie theater feeling awful about the tragedies of life. Ti West on anyone walking out of his slasher film "X": "What did you think you were signing up for?" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z

The Twitter accounts of Greig and Christian were removed shortly after news of the tragedy in London broke. Australian radio station says no wrongdoing in royal prank call 2012-12-12T01:23:36Z

But “3 Christs” is more tragedy than comedy, and the tragedy is Rokeach’s. ‘3 Christs,’ About Milton Rokeach’s 1959 Study 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Director Brian Lindstrom’s documentary details one man’s struggles with schizophrenia and examines his arrest by Portland police that ended in tragedy. The Week Ahead: ‘The Lion King,’ Lake Street Dive 2014-03-05T21:56:33Z

"Personal tragedy," says Sapir, reflecting on the Adlers' fate in the broader Holocaust, "gets lost in this massive quantity." 'An Apartment in Berlin' examines trend of Jews' moving to German city 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

But it puts even greater responsibility for communicating the ballet’s tragedy on the ballerina playing Odette. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake’ at Met Opera House 2012-06-26T21:12:40Z

He recalls the adage: “One death is a tragedy and a million are a statistic.” What do all these stories of vaccine denial deaths do to our sense of empathy? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Irish art has always leaned heavily on tragedy, and Dublin’s historic cemeteries and jails are worth visiting for enlightenment into what has fueled the country’s often-melancholy nature. 36 Hours in Dublin 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

It also honors a rarely interviewed Kennedy wife who was eclipsed by her more glamorous sister-in-law and sister in tragedy, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. HBO's 'Ethel' turns loving lens on RFK's widow 2012-10-17T17:13:08Z

There is so little conspicuous display of emotion that it takes awhile to learn that a tragedy has taken place. Review: 3 Generations Aching to Connect ‘On the Shore of the Wide World’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

The death of your parents is the ordinary tragedy. Bustle Has a Baby 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

The depravity, high-handedness, and cruelty of an authentically sophisticated nobility, both as a ruling class and as a model of refinement and character, is tragedy—Don Giovanni’s, his fiefdom’s, and all Europe’s. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

All a woman needs to do is be photographed from an unflattering angle, and it's practically a tragedy. "It's Always Sunny" star gets fat -- for laughs 2011-06-17T20:18:00Z

Above the knees, I looked like any victim of a tragedy. My iconic nightmare: How I became the face of the Boston bombing 2014-04-14T22:58:00Z

In this case the shortcuts were totally worth it; that “Clyde’s” is a comedy does not mean it doesn’t have tragedy baked in. ‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

All the elements for tragedy are present in Freedom: war, rage, grief, jealousy, hubris, vengeance, illicit passion. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

"That is the human tragedy of it all." Aung San Suu Kyi's tragic love and incredible life come to the big screen 2010-12-19T21:30:10Z

Know these feelings, and you will have the reward of experiencing the absolute beauty of “Fidelio,” the greatness of the tragedy of “Otello.” Jon Vickers, acclaimed Canadian operatic tenor, dies at 88 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

“Republicans rejoice that finally there’s a national tragedy that doesn’t involve guns,” Hallie writes, referring to terrorists who used pressure-cooker bombs rather than semiautomatic weapons in the 2013 Boston Marathon attack. 'The Newsroom' recap: Investigative story may have hefty cost 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

And a tragedy at the novel’s end doesn’t hold the power it needs to bring the novel to a more satisfying close. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

“It would be a tragedy not to take the extra time now to get the right design for the future,” the architect Robert A. M. Stern told me the other day. A Potential Solution for Developers at St. John the Divine 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

An 18th-century apothecary covertly sells poison to oppressed women, while a modern-day historian investigates a resulting tragedy. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

Those execrable three words are murmured by sorrowful elected officials in times of tragedy but rarely burdened with any actual plans or action. Perspective | The ‘commander in grief’ steps up to the microphone 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

Kitty’s tragedy is that she has been declawed, but the movie makes little of it. Movie Review: ?Puss in Boots? With Antonio Banderas - Review 2011-10-27T21:48:54Z

When a firehouse in Austin loses many people to a tragedy, Owen is called on to rebuild it from scratch and assemble a new team. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Avenue 5’ and ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

“It is also genuinely cathartic, in the great, transcendent tradition of classic tragedy.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie’ and Imelda Staunton in ‘Gypsy’ 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

"Before the weekend, I figured it would earn around $170 million, and the fact it still earned over $160 million in the wake of the tragedy is very impressive," said Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com Box Office. "Dark Knight Rises" earns $160.8 million in debut 2012-07-24T00:21:44Z

In this haunting reimagining of the old tragedy, Haddon provides a blistering critique of the way money distorts the moral atmosphere, choking off dissent and rendering dazzled outsiders incapable of seeing what’s happening. Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

I appreciated the Los Angeles Times’s early, measured approach to this hometown tragedy. Perspective | Media coverage of Kobe Bryant’s death was a chaotic mess, but there were moments of grace 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

I think it’s a life that just happens, by choice, tragedy, or just by inches — and that sometimes really fits. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Are some people destined to be single? 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Yet the film is also surprisingly tender: At its heart is a relationship between a woman and a young boy whose lives intertwine through tragedy. A Quiet Word With Italy’s Master of Horror 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

Perhaps this is a multiple personality disorder: a series of symptoms caused by some awful tragedy: certainly his final musical number suggests this. Cannes 2012: Holy Motors – review 2012-05-23T09:56:21Z

At times Macbeth — who speaks a full third of the lines in the original text — seems to be a supporting player in his own tragedy, and his death arrives with a bit of a whimper. Theater Review: ‘Macbeth,’ With Alan Cumming at the Barrymore Theater 2013-04-22T02:00:49Z

It’s a juxtaposition that evokes Greek tragedy, in which choruses of common humanity echoed and annotated the words of afflicted heroes. Review: In ‘The Events,’ a Shooting Leaves a Survivor in Purgatory 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Judging by their response to these two tragedies, both police and prosecutors appear to care more about dogs than human beings. Why do our paranoid, anti-fun police seem to think they run the country? | George Monbiot 2010-03-29T20:00:00Z

It gave me ideas about breaking out the most unsettling, crazy moments of young romance from the tragedies.” The World Takes On Shakespeare at London Festival 2012-07-04T21:37:11Z

This tragedy will shine the light on the internal problems and perhaps force improvements. Motherlode Blog: Despite Poisoning Deaths, India’s School Lunch Program Must Go On 2013-07-17T18:21:55Z

That tragedy sends the author into the kind of “addled mourning” that spins him through “cycles of pointlessness.” ‘The Hero’s Body’: The dangerous world of hyper-macho men 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Yes, each is emotionally difficult to watch — the needless tragedy and violence are unsparing — but Pakistan’s afflictions are not offered toward cheap ends. Commentary: 3 films you must see to understand Pakistan, its problems 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

And if it did, would the resulting tragedy really be what he describes? Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Midway through “Waves,” about a black Florida family that endures a cataclysmic tragedy, the film’s weight shifts onto the shoulders of Emily, a stoic teenage girl played by Russell, 25. The Biggest Breakout Stars of 2019 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Witnessing a grim spectacle like that once was bad enough; twice would be little short of a tragedy. Four reasons why James Cameron mustn't re-release Avatar | Stuart Heritage 2010-03-17T10:33:00Z

When Bruce refuses Meredith’s request to return home, it kicks off an otherworldly power play that explores issues of violence and male privilege that’s framed quite literally as a bloody Greek tragedy. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

In Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy, composed around 1605, we see a kingdom entirely in thrall to the fitful mentality of its leader with his “unconstant starts.” Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

For some, describes private passions, voicing individual desires and tragedy. Stefanos Lazaridis obituary 2010-05-16T17:48:00Z

ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” and ABC’s Monday episode of “Dancing With the Stars” both opened with a moment of silence for the victims of the tragedy. Jason Aldean, Jennifer Lopez cancel shows after Las Vegas shooting 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

The state of the Freedom Railway is, at its heart, a tragedy. African Railway and The Edible Guardian 2010-04-29T07:00:00Z

Sellars relates this Handelian gloss on the ancient Greek tragedy to the psychological toll sustained by the participants in war, whether those wars happen to be in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam or wherever. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z

Playwright Brian C. Petti was inspired to write “Banshee,” now in its West Coast premiere at Theatre of NOTE, by tragedies within his own family. One family's cry of the 'Banshee' at Theatre of NOTE 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Bong argues the film is “a comedy without clowns, a tragedy without villains” but the vulgarity of the film’s working class in bold starkly contrasts the bourgeois elitism in the fine print. Why Parasite misses the mark as a commentary on South Korean society 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

They start mid-sentence with no hellos or how-are-yous and veer into private thoughts without much fanfare, punctuated by news of ordinary tragedies. In a Tokyo neighborhood's last sushi restaurant, a sense of loss 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cover preaches what filmmakers might see as a three-act narrative in the Bible: first the story of creation, then the fall of humanity and finally, the tragedy of wanting things rather than God. How the True/False Film Festival and a Church Work Together 2014-02-22T00:21:15Z

The studio was rushing to react to the tragedy. Shooting at Colo. theater shocks movie industry 2012-07-20T18:04:08Z

If escape from political tumult is what you want from an evening at the theater, Shakespeare’s tragedy “Coriolanus” is not the answer. The Week in Arts: Dancing Around Graves, Beach Read Flicks and ‘GLOW’ 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

He has described it as "a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones", saying that, "a visceral sceptic such as Kubrick just couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel." Rereading Stephen King: week three – The Shining 2012-06-22T11:32:40Z

There'll always be a place for theatre's great tragedies, but sometimes you just want to laugh until your face hurts. Best theatre of 2012, No 6: Noises Off 2012-12-14T14:09:06Z

Okay, this sounded like a legitimate tragedy, it truly did. 2010-02-17T16:01:00Z

Both artists mine an indelibly American vein of tragedies, historic or never known. Museum and Gallery Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T23:08:59Z

Here, they have scored a coup, placing Aeschylus's great tragedy of war on the edge of the Epynt hills in Cilieni, a mock-up village where today's troops train for urban warfare. The Persians 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Chalky blames himself for the tragedy and believes there’s no chance for redemption. 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: Chalky's on the run; Margaret's in trouble 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

McConaughey brings a watchful intelligence to the role of Ward, a man of secrets and tragedy. Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 1: Zac Efron in The Paperboy 2012-05-25T16:21:11Z

The first, a tragedy, takes place in mid-October in Zanesville, Ohio. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z

We tend to lean on Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony in moments of tragedy — in the immediate aftermath, and later in remembrance. Review: The Czech Philharmonic Brings Tear-Streaked Consolation 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Ultimately "Shame" emerges as a sex tragedy, and a story without an end; it stays with you, like the film's frequent cold rain, hard to watch and harder to forget. 'Shame': Anatomy of a twisted sibling bond 2011-12-08T21:39:03Z

Yet as triumphant as this moment is, the rest of the episode is nearly all tragedy and trouble. 'Poldark' Episode 6 Recap: Tragedy vs. Troublemaking 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

The tragedy and comedy is better balanced tonight than in the show's previous incarnations. Jackson's Way ? review 2011-01-09T21:30:01Z

The fact that Schramke got to know the couple and filmed them before their shocking tragedy enables the surviving parties to clear up a few misconceptions about what occurred. "The Anarchists" is HBO's chaotic examination of fear, loathing and a crypto-bro con in Acapulco 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z

He struggled with personal tragedy, including the loss of a son. Mike Wallace and the Legacy of 60 Minutes 2012-04-08T19:47:57Z

In the past year, many have described the impossible tragedy of being unable to mourn the death of a loved one with family and friends. I Miss Being Part of an Audience 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

As for the former, she narrowed her sights to the margins of tragedy, looking for life outside the headlines. Charm City: the documentary on Baltimore's three most violent years 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

The movie tries to more emphatically foreground Marguerite by making her a relatively equal participant in her own tragedy. ‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Early on, Mr. Costello promised a night of songs about “love and deceit” and “tragedy and exile.” Elvis Costello Treats Carnegie Hall to a Solo Show 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

“Romeo and Juliet” starts off as a comedy but ends in tragedy. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Right now the only way into a community is often a national tragedy, and that’s too late. How a Multimedia Whiz Seized Digital Theater’s Big Moment 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Whether she is waxing rhapsodic on a type of pound cake or offering a redemptive message of hope in the face of unfathomable tragedy, she has remained remarkably, consistently on topic. There will never be another Oprah 2011-05-24T15:06:00Z

At Versailles, with Cybèle performed by Anna Reinhold, the commanding young mezzo-soprano, the opera was revealed as her tragedy. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z

This list, more specifically, focuses on the sad stories of entire bands — those who have lost multiple members, their lives taken — or in one case, wholly consumed — by tragedy or trauma. The 7 most tragic band deaths in rock history 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Shows such as "The Underground Railroad" don't shy away from the savagery but, in large part, what occurs onscreen highlights the tragedy these people endured instead of retraumatizing their descendants. Butler's "Kindred" features a Black woman doing what most people fear: grappling with ugly history 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

Also covered: the dicey subject of when it’s too soon to joke about a tragedy like 9/11. Review: CNN’s ‘History of Comedy’ Has Good Timing 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Instead, what he has shown – whether in the watertight tragedy of All My Sons or the novice experiment of The Man Who Had All the Luck – is a clear-headed gift for letting Miller's plays sing. A View from the Bridge - review 2011-01-17T21:30:00Z

I read about the terrible tragedy and I thought of the parents. Book Talk: Tragedy prompted author to write novel in six weeks 2013-04-11T12:20:59Z

The section cautions reporters to show compassion and be sensitive when investigating a tragedy. How breaking news is breaking us: The rush to report Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death 2014-02-04T00:00:00Z

When the movie’s over, you have, indeed, witnessed a tragedy, just not the usual kind. ‘Sorry We Missed You’ Review: The Human Toll of That One-Click Buy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

He weighs the promise of life against the meanness, cruelty and tragedy that await us all. Review | If you feel intimidated by Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle,’ try ‘Spring’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, recent events serve to remind us we are not immune to these types of tragedies. The next shooting is happening soon. This online course isn’t helping. 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

That the humor can be wicked and transgressive only makes the tragedy all the more touching in the end. L.A. Opera goes cutting edge in double bill of Purcell, Bartók 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

The Dutch novelist derives both comedy and tragedy from this tale of two insignificant friends from an insignificant town in the former Yugoslavia. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

New York Times critic Charles Isherwood called Falls' Lear "aggressively raunchy" and "excruciatingly violent" but observed that it succeeded in its aim "to reawaken our revulsion at the violence in this relentlessly dark tragedy." Robert Falls, Midwesterner at heart, warms to L.A. for 'Luna Gale' 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

The songs seem to become less prominent as comedy turns to tragedy, though the music still informs every emotionally bracing moment. Broadway's fall revivals: Why big stars can't make up for a lack of artistic vision 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

This is a raw tragedy about dreams and delusions that helped shape American drama. Beyond the Horizon / Spring Storm 2010-04-08T10:21:00Z

The triumphs and tragedies are recounted to flesh out the picture of a life thrust inexorably into the social justice movement. Joe Morton, 'Turn Me Loose' and the sly comic activism of Dick Gregory 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

“The last kid he’s working with goes missing, and the play becomes a beautifully articulated American tragedy.” Seattle Rep’s 2013-14 season: ‘The Suit,’ Holmes’ hound and ‘Virginia Woolf’ 2013-05-01T21:49:20Z

And in a year when there was so much tumult, unrest and tragedy, nearly all comedy seemed political – quite possibly because we were all in such desperate need of a laugh. The 10 best moments in political comedy this year 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

“This is a very odd photo to choose to show your concern for The Bahamas. It honestly seems more like you’re using the hashtag for a tragedy as self promotion,” one person wrote. Bikini pics in Hurricane Dorian posts? Instagram influencers criticized for tone-deaf 'self-promotion' 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Like Waltzing Matilda and other outback tales, Red Dog also features tragedy. Red Dog: an audience with Australia's best friend 2012-02-09T20:00:01Z

Porter explained that the dark themes of his writing were also influenced by tragedy. A Writer’s Deathbed Portrait of Francis Bacon 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

“Gloria” is a deeply immersive novel, steeped in tragedies — the chief one being characters who try to muscle their way through problems for lack of other ideas. Review | Atticus Lish’s new novel is about manhood, but don’t expect to find any social commentary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

“The Bacchae,” part of the Next Wave Festival in a new translation from Aaron Poochigian, is a late tragedy by Euripides. Review: In This Entertaining ‘Bacchae,’ Dionysus Is a Nasty Woman 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Artists and writers captured the tragedy as it claimed lives, some with surprising commercial success, which helped breach mainstream American consciousness. An AIDS Museum: The Challenges Are Huge, but the Timing Is Right 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The story is at once overstuffed and underdeveloped, fusing personal tragedy with political intrigue. ‘Beckett’ Review: He Must Go On 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

An investigation into the crime reveals that the case cuts across socioeconomic and cultural lines as several people deal with the tragedy. TCA 2015: 'American Crime': Powerful and raw emotions behind a murder 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

If comedy is about unimportant things happening to unimportant people by chance, and tragedy about terrible things happening to important people in an inexorable way, then these films are comedies. The Human Centipede is cosmic slapstick 2010-08-29T21:30:00Z

The new movie largely follows the original story of Simba, the cub that faces tragedy and must summon the courage to become a leader. Disney goes high-tech to draw fans to a new 'Lion King' 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

This is the macro level context for the individual level tragedies seen in such recent cases as the killings of Alton Sterling and Philip Castile in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis. What Obama’s Dallas speech missed: Police brutality is rooted in race-based housing segregation and economic inequality 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

“A House for Alice” is the story of a family’s reckoning after personal and community tragedies. A Rich, Capacious Family Saga, Bookended by Tragedy 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z

The life of Carrère's grandfather Georges was a family secret; a hidden tragedy at the heart of his mother's life. Emmanuel Carr?re: Betraying confidences 2010-10-19T13:19:00Z

Fischer is one of many young women I speak to whose families have been marked by tragedy. ‘I was not willing to die for my breasts': the young women opting for mastectomies 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

The first hardship they endure may be a humorous lack of privacy, but eventually they’ll suffer the most painful tragedies a couple can confront. Review | ‘The Taste of Sugar’ offers a thrilling look at Puerto Rico’s history through the tale of one couple’s struggle to survive 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

Social media, too, has begun to play a prominent role in broadcasting tragedy. The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Jordan also experienced multiple tragedies of losing family members close to him, but always remained unfazed. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

The final story, about a sister doing longevity research, offers a tender counterbalance to these tragedies. Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

So I think Janis stands for the promise of that era, and to me she stands for the tragedy as well. Richard Goldstein's 'Another Little Piece of My Heart' recalls '60s 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

He called the deaths of thousands of migrants at sea the biggest tragedy facing Europe since the Holocaust. Documentary on Migrants Wins Praise at Berlin Film Festival 1459-02-05T05:00:00Z

These feel like abstract tragedies inserted to flip the switch from calm leadership into that "fire and blood" mode we've heard much about. "House of the Dragon" ending flames out after a season of inhaling 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a comedy of misbehavior, a tragedy of cynicism, a big Broadway musical, a tiny domestic drama, a timeline in search of a story that’s never found and, anyway, doesn’t make sense. Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Returns, the Way It Never Was 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

All of these movements were borne of tragedy. Daniel Dae Kim on ‘Asian-Americans’: Ugly History, Relevant Again 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

He expressed concern that the opera, which portrays the creation of the bomb as a tragedy, risked simplifying a complex moral calculus. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Jane is one pole of a story in which the keeping of shameful family secrets is the foundation of tragedy. ‘The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart’ Review: The Right Kind of Melodrama 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

Côté and Ogden convey their love convincingly, but there is a close-focused quality to Ratmansky's narrative which precludes the sense of grand tragedy. Ecstasy and Death; Romeo and Juliet – review 2013-04-20T23:06:09Z

“When tragedy strikes, he is often there from the beginning.” Pritzker Architecture Prize Goes to Shigeru Ban 2014-03-24T20:46:25Z

Like most of us, he's trying to make sense of the world around him and the accompanying human tragedies. Titanic a magnet for kids, fine line for educators 2012-03-21T16:27:11Z

It stars Ciarán Hinds as a recent widower returning to the seaside town that was the site of a terrible tragedy in his youth. The Sea: trailer for Ciarán Hinds and Charlotte Rampling's new film - video 2013-07-08T09:00:00Z

Afterward, Mercy lives in guilty, near-anorexic isolation on the outskirts of the Central district while Margaret is so unhinged that she rents and begins to visit a secret apartment, trying to find solace amid tragedy. In her novel 'The Expatriates', Janice Y.K. Lee explores contemporary lives in Hong Kong 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

There's only one way to stop a tragedy like this from happening again, and that's to understand the complexities and rabid passions of each of these tribes. Sci-fi tribes: from Trekkies to Browncoats 2013-05-16T15:18:56Z

It’s that La La Land remains, as its name implies, a frothy fantasy; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a life-enhancing tragedy. A little rain must fall: the tragic secret of a musical movie masterpiece 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

By contrast, I found the show surprisingly authentic and saw it as a cathartic opportunity to share with the world my beloved country’s tragedy. “Narcos” isn’t “Breaking Bad”: How season 2 betrays Pablo Escobar’s victims 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Lewis added: “The great tragedy is that he realizes in retrospect that the man he loved and enabled and defended had gotten thousands of people killed.” In ‘A Spy Among Friends,’ B.F.F. Betrayal at an International Level 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

The tragedy is that, with recent developments in surgery, the problem shouldn’t be that hard to fix. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Just a month later, Gandhi was assassinated, a tragedy Arun calls “shattering”. Arun Gandhi: ‘My grandfather saw my anger as fuel for change’ 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

“You are forced to think . . . of what a burden of tragedy this plane carries, what a burden of death and sadness and sorrow,” George Herman of CBS declared. Robert F. Kennedy’s final flight: The storied journey of the ride from California to New York 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

"This movie contaminates historical tragedy with the classic motifs of Italian comedy, thus desecrating a topic - World War I massacres - that was still taboo for national cinema," said Italian critic Paolo Mereghetti. Monicelli's films captured Italy's flaws, sins 2010-11-30T20:46:00Z

In the third act of this romantic tragedy, it's only on JFK's assassination that she confesses all to her future husband. Once Upon a Secret: My Hidden Affair with JFK by Mimi Alford ? review 2012-02-10T11:00:02Z

True enough, yet many features of this 400-year-old tragedy don’t easily fit the demands of a modern, realistic thriller. Jo Nesbo Sculpts ‘Macbeth’ Into Shadowy Crime Noir 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

The day after his own midweek Bible study, the Rev. Arthur Price Jr. was sitting in his Alabama church thinking about the tragedy in Charleston. What’s the right reaction when a white stranger walks into a black church? 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

The first of her novels to have an overtly historical setting, the book — rooted in a real 19th-century tragedy — unfolds about a decade after the end of the Civil War. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

It was, The Times of Philadelphia excitedly observed, “one of the most marvelous and perfect tragedies which real life has ever contributed as a contrast to the creations of fiction.” The Murders That Touched Off Ireland’s Bloody Campaign for Self-Rule 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s a tragedy that it was so abused,” she adds, before reflecting on it being out of sight. ‘Lost Leonardo’ unpeels the mysteries of the Salvator Mundi 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

His vision of what theatre should be is outlined in Arguments for a Theatre, first published in 1989 and augmented ever since, as he developed his belief in tragedy as the greatest form of theatre. Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not' 2012-10-01T18:31:02Z

For any neutral observer, the latest chapter of Sheen's life looks more like a tragedy than the bawdy comedy many people are trying to pretend it is. Charlie Sheen, a star on the verge of a nervous breakdown, grips and revulses America 2011-03-06T00:15:46Z

The brief scene that interrupts the Act 1 curtain number “Man of the Hour” should be musically absorbed, and the Act 2 tragedy more subtly foreshadowed. A rollicking remembrance of Hollywood's place in pop history 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Of Gods and Men is a modern tragedy that doesn't require the audience to share its belief any more than something by Aeschylus. Of Gods and Men ? review 2010-12-02T15:00:00Z

Her tale is a tragedy — the death that opens the novel is hers. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

You can read that as a metaphor for how Dutch colonial rule caused generations of tragedy in Indonesia, or you can read it as a tale of the supernatural. Review: ‘Beauty Is a Wound,’ an Indonesian Blend of History, Myth and Magic 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

McConaughey, who shifted mid-career from a friendly satyr in Hollywood romantic comedies to a leading light of independent cinema, brings a watchful intelligence to the role of Ward, a man of secrets and tragedy. The Paperboy: Down and Dirty with Zac, Matthew and Nicole 2012-10-04T14:30:59Z

Through boom and bust, war and peace, terrible tragedy and absurd pettiness, David Letterman was there, cracking jokes and ushering us to the inflatables. Farewell to David Letterman, 'a force of nature' 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

There’s a line of Marx’s I love from “The 18th Brumaire Of Louis Napoleon”: “First time tragedy, second time farce.” When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z

O’Neill labeled it a comedy, but as this revival demonstrates, it lays an audience flat with the brute force of a modern tragedy. Eugene O'Neill's 'The Hairy Ape' is a rallying cry for the Bernie Sanders crowd 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

“When the tragedy happened, I lost my friend,” the actor said of his late Furious 7 co-star during an advance screening in Los Angeles. Watch Vin Diesel's Emotional Tribute to Paul Walker 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

In an apology this summer in Fast Company magazine, Mr. Reynolds said: “What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest. What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy.” Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

In Désirée Zamorano's new novel "The Amado Women," the author explores the ties that bind the women in an upwardly mobile Los Angeles family, and how those connections are tested when tragedy strikes. Désirée Zamorano on the lives of L.A.'s Latinas and 'The Amado Women' 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Joint project "We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy." Housewives actress Carter dies 2010-04-12T08:37:00Z

Gradually, however, Salgado's photographs began to record tragedy and atrocities, and what he saw changed him. 'Salt of the Earth' captures photographer Sebastiao Salgado 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Gatz may be a marathon, but Fitzgerald was definitely a sprinter; the tragedy beneath the tragedy in Gatsby is that its author would never write so perfectly again. Stage Marathon: Is Seven Hours of The Great Gatsby Too Much? 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

The finger pointed firmly at the ancient Greeks, responsible for all those tear-jerking tragedies and the word "catharsis" itself, for promoting a lachrymose culture. Margaret, Are You Grieving? A Cultural History of Weeping; Spotify radio: radio review 2013-01-31T17:45:01Z

Roy Orbison’s context gathered around him for the 1988 Black And White Night concert that set the seal on the revival of his career and his comeback from tragedy. Clive James: ‘If I were a pop star, I’d sing like Johnny Cash’ 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

The characters have enough dimension to avoid appearing to be symbols of a social tragedy, and the movie’s relative gentleness makes the harsher realities of Brandon’s world all the more distressing. Review: In ‘Kicks,’ the Promise (and Perils) of Those Air Jordans 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

One of the best known of these tragedies gains new power through a moving and boldly original treatment. Royal Swedish Ballet offers an innovative ‘Juliet and Romeo’: One for today 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to explore what a tragedy the last 15 years of their lives were,” says Murphy. ‘I wouldn’t sit on her toilet …’ Screen revival of Davis and Crawford feud sparks sexism debate 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Before they relocate, they will perform this tragedy of jealousy. Theater Listings for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

"Shakespearean tragedies are convention-bound, narrative-driven tales of lust, intrigue and murder designed to appeal to the broadest possible cross-section of society," he says. Gregg Hurwitz is full of thrilling, erudite contradictions 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Dory, traumatized by a past tragedy, expects little from life. Pie-making as theater: One really gets made while the secrets slip out on this Burbank stage 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Later, when you are sitting where I am, another tragedy will happen, and you’ll be the one writing the check. When my home was destroyed 2013-05-21T18:22:00Z

As Franklin, the director, said, “Seeing a cute cartoon character going through a tragedy is something that you can empathize with almost to a ridiculous degree.” Tig Notaro’s ‘Drawn’ Explores Strange New Worlds: Animated Ones 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

A function in which there are gibes and laughs seems inappropriate for a time when the line between comedy and tragedy has never been thinner. What boundaries? White House Correspondents’ Dinner creates unholy cohabitation of press, politicians 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

There is more comedy than tragedy in the cavorting hieroglyphic characters and hectic narratives of the wonderful “Constellations” series of 1939-41. Art Review: ‘Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape,’ at National Gallery 2012-08-02T19:39:06Z

And yet, like many well-intentioned policies that arise in the wake of tragedy, the war on wildfires has proved to be self-defeating. Are the American West’s Wildfires Inevitable? 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

She believed there was a “nearly mythological dimension” to the tragedy. For the Documentarian Alice Diop, Only Fiction Could Do Justice to a Tragedy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

He has also said there is too much comedy on the stage: that it is tragedy that's needed, because tragedy "liberates language". This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:27Z

Planes crashed into buildings as if  by accident, the tragedy caused by some illusive invisible evil. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

Present-day kids investigate a town tragedy dating back to the Jim Crow South of the 1950s in this fast-paced mystery with wonderful characters. The 15 best tween and teen books of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

More often, opera’s anger, when fulfilled, leads to tragedy. Classical music can unite and console in troubling, angry times 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The tragedy is systemic, as the story’s real-life conclusion demonstrates: The officers were acquitted of manslaughter charges. Making Black Lives, Not Just Black Deaths, Matter Onstage 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

If you want a fast-paced tale of greed, adventure and tragedy that distills pretty much all that is known and most of what is surmised about the Lost Colony, this is a perfectly fine book. 'A Kingdom Strange': A new look at the Lost Colony of Roanoke 2010-04-28T23:50:00Z

"Once Were Brothers" chronicles The Band's success and its tragedies — car accidents and addictions — all of which made "something so beautiful go up in flames," as Robertson eloquently describes it. "Levon didn't write songs. I gave him credit": Robbie Robertson on The Band's disputes and new film 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z

Watergate is the stuff of grand tragedy, the great passion play of our politics. ‘I Have Passed the Point of Reacting’: How the Watergate News Cycle Reads Today 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

More than a decade ago, Haneke employed his formal austerity and emotional restraint to immerse us in one elderly couple’s tragedy. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Palmer, Chanler and Gardner inherited and maintained their fortunes, but money didn’t spare their families the ravages of untimely deaths, physical and mental ailments, suicides, war and other tragedies. Who are the real women behind John Singer Sargent’s portraits? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Rarely considered is the fact that still there are people walking around who are marked by these tragedies. Right on target: “Tower” tells the painful story America’s first mass shooting beautifully 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Even this tragedy became fodder for her act. Remembering Joan Rivers: As If She'd Let Us Forget Her 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

In the wake of a personal tragedy that may still be unfolding, Elmo's innocence, positiveness and sweetness will be put to the test. Elmo left behind on 'Sesame Street' as actor exits 2012-11-21T16:57:52Z

And on a chilly day last November, he was about to shoot his final scene as King Lear in the new made-for-television film of Shakespeare’s tragedy, which debuts on Amazon Prime Video on Friday. Anthony Hopkins Returns to ‘King Lear,’ Finally Up to the Challenge 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Williams expressed anger over the decision, stating that the tragedy was insufficient grounds cancel a show, especially since the network airs shows about such controversial and serious topics as teen pregnancy. Buckwild Update: MTV Cancels Show; Producer Speaks Out 2013-04-10T15:54:53Z

The acting is part of that, especially from the adults; all four are expert, and Ms. Flood quite brilliant, at navigating the space where comedy and tragedy muddle. Review: In ‘Make Believe,’ Four Children Meet Their Inner Adults 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Twenty years later Letterman's opener is still recalled as a lighthouse guiding comics and other hosts out of that tragedy's fog. How September 11, 2001 became the borderline dividing two eras of late-night comedy 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

This is how these tragedies play out—the human dimension is so powerful. Don’t Call It Katrina 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Coriolanus Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Roman general gets a “Mad Max”-styled makeover. L.A. theater openings, July 6-13: 'The Orphan of Zhao' and more 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

“Fire of Love” is a romance shadowed by tragedy. ‘Fire of Love’ Review: A Volcanic Romance 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

It may be a little too plush and self-satisfied, but Joseph L Mankiewicz’s golden-age Hollywood version of the tragedy some Americans regard as their own has stood the test of time. The best Shakespeare films – ranked! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

As the old saying goes, comedy equals tragedy plus time. In ‘Cyclorama,’ Former Classmates Confront an Extra Problematic Drama Teacher 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

The cheeky title, coupled with the wretched circumstances of the artist’s death, brings wit to the tragedy. Restoring the tragicomic tone to Bas Jan Ader 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Lots of people remember that on September 17, 2001, David Letterman resumed "The Late Show with David Letterman," opening that broadcast with a sincere admission of feeling adrift in the wake of such unparalleled tragedy. How September 11, 2001 became the borderline dividing two eras of late-night comedy 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

Then Zero reveals a great tragedy in his past, and Gustave does an about-face. Ralph Fiennes on nostalgia, heart in Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

There is gravity — even tragedy — in their circumstances, but nothing heavy about the play itself. Review: In ‘The Seagull,’ a Great Play, a Great Cast and Yet ... 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Such tragedies sit lightly on Miller’s tale of the city, however, which is less a critical analysis of urban life than a celebration of a legendary decade. ‘Supreme City,’ by Donald L. Miller 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Which would have been a tragedy, because I've seen some really brilliant revivals since then. Plays you never want to see again 2013-01-16T16:04:43Z

On my last night in Boulder, over dinner at the reliably delicious Brasserie 1010, Kip took up the same theme: “This whole tragedy has had some unexpected positive side effects,” he said. To Ride Again Another Day in Colorado 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

It will blend verbatim testimony with music, dance and sections from Shakespeare's tragedies. Belarus Free Theatre to bring battle against death penalty to UK 2013-03-27T12:40:58Z

There, as he encounters friendship, bullying, romance and tragedy, his love of Bollywood movies keeps him going, inflecting his everyday existence with larger-than-life musical reveries. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

“I happen to find a lot of comedy in tragedy,” she said. Heidi Gardner Celebrates Easter … Candy 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z

The combination of tragedy and capitalism suggested some interesting possibilities. At DKNY, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, Coming Full Circle 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

We would never be a victim, because we are not the victim sort, the person who courts such tragedies. This is why Trump is winning: “Muslim Killers,” manipulated fear and the other mass shooting we ignored 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

A tragedy has occurred involving the deaths of multiple children after a bouncy castle was lifted 33 feet into the air by wind in Australia, according to Tasmania Police. Bouncy castle accident kills 5 children during school celebration: 'Our hearts are breaking' 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Awareness of such tragedies so distresses Roya that she considers quitting her high school swim team. Review | Ally Theatre revisits pool racism in world premiere 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Somehow, by working on so many levels with such fine actors, "Still Alice" plays as neither tragedy nor triumph, just the aching resilience of some ordinary hearts. 'Still Alice' achingly shows mental resilience and decline 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

It was "absolutely a book for grown-ups, for people who understand that comedy and tragedy are linked". Howard Jacobson wins the Booker for The Finkler Question 2010-10-12T20:48:00Z

Coincidentally, Farrior stands in for those, in Newtown and beyond, rendered numb by tragedy and wondering why the news media, or movies, have to pick so diligently at this fresh wound. Jack Reacher: Tom Cruise Picks the Wrong Week for a Thriller About a Mass Killing 2012-12-18T14:00:44Z

The tragedy unfurls from many angles, with glimpses into lives of nurses, firefighters, those who are rebuilding, those who are leaving and those experiencing survivors’ guilt. New & Noteworthy, From Schopenhauer to the Pope 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

This time it's a girl, not a horse, that leads two Devon brothers into war, rivalry and tragedy. This week's new films 2012-10-12T23:05:33Z

But if Tennant is notable for the ability to move between tragedy and comedy, then his Broadchurch co-star matches him in such adaptability. David Tennant and Olivia Colman: the best actors on TV? 2013-04-25T11:07:42Z

Robin Roberts talks with American country-music superstar Luke Bryan about the loss of his siblings and how his family triumphed over tragedy, 10 p.m. TV picks for Monday: country star Luke Bryan on KOMO 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Although one perhaps missed the modern piano’s ability to sustain an expansive line in the plaintive Rondo in A Minor, K. 511, Bezuidenhout’s subtle shadings and inward intensity nonetheless suggested the depths of private tragedy. Mozart and C.P.E. Bach in a dazzling fortepiano performance 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Provocative ideas — the dangers of offshore drilling, the influence of BP on the government, the declining media interest in the human tragedy — surface and dissolve as the show surges on. Review: In ‘Spill,’ an Oil Disaster Seems Too Big for the Stage 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Here's a closer look at more numbers associated with Ukraine as this tragedy continues to play out. Ukraine by the numbers: Refugees top 2.5 million as war continues 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Lots of stories about genius poke at a quiet tragedy of exceptionalism, but this isn’t one of them — being awesome is awesome. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

As the old formula goes, tragedy plus time equals comedy. Bad Business = Good Entertainment 2010-04-22T18:09:00Z

The original tragedy started the night of Oct. ‘Collective’ Review: When Tragedy Consumes a Nation 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

After that tragedy, the organized evacuation of children by sea transport was largely abandoned. 'Lifeboat' marks a poignant note in children's theater 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

I let others write the story of my marriage as one that survived tragedy and emerged even stronger. When Sturdy Love Is What You Need 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

In this somber tragedy, the real demons are never anywhere but right inside that boat. ‘The Mercy’ Review: Sailing Around the World, or Maybe Not 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

There are the seeds, as in “Boyz,” of a kind of coming-of-age tragedy, as Franklin must decide if he’s a hard enough man to deal the hard stuff. Review: FX’s ‘Snowfall’ Dramatizes an Origin Story for Crack Cocaine 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

A blackout gives way to the second section, in which a female voice-over talks about overcoming the “tragedy in the walls” by dressing “it up with glamour because we have to make light of tragedy.” Review: Dancing That Unfolds Like a Prayer 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

But then life is, after all, a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel, to borrow from Horace Walpole. Theater Review: ‘Le Cid’ at the Theater of the Church of Notre Dame 2013-01-21T23:51:21Z

Maybe that is the tragedy of Karen Dalton: the fact that she was making music in the wrong era. Karen Dalton, a Musical Mystery That Doesn’t Need to Be Solved 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

The show’s fictional renderings of Black deaths pale in comparison to the real tragedies they mirror. My Screens Are Filled With Black Death, but I Won’t Look Away 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

Q: I am writing to tell you how your advice helped solve a near tragedy. Black pepper saves life in an emergency 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Like his other movies, “The Immigrant” is messy and glorious, a potboiler with the soul of a tragedy, a Dreiserian opera. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Either way, it belonged to King Richard II, the doomed 14th-century monarch whose weaknesses and tragedy were dramatised by Shakespeare. Fit for a king: was the Wilton Diptych made in Britain or France? 2012-08-16T09:36:13Z

The tragedies in my life continue to shape me. Kim Cattrall: 'I don’t want to be in a situation for even an hour where I’m not enjoying myself' 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Egor Beroev plays Marat, a cocksure Kazakh fisherman who returns to his hometown years after a tragedy, only to find that the sea has receded clear out of sight. Waiting for the Sea – first look review 2012-11-09T17:05:27Z

That “Eight Hours” is a comedy — or perhaps a tragedy stopped short — owes something to both design and chance. Review: ‘Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day,’ Another Fassbinder Masterpiece 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Right after a massive tragedy people do come together, and it’s really more later, once that original crisis passes, that I think certain divisions emerge. Tom Perrotta: “My protagonist was too nice a guy for a dark tentpole drama on Sunday nights” 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Which sets up a classic tragedy of the commons. Is farming with reclaimed water the solution to a drier future? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

The film is a modern tragedy in the mode of other 20th-century tragedies such as Death of a Salesman. Why ‘Do the Right Thing’ Is Still a Great Movie 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

"I saw in this woman the archetype of a tragedy, of a drama, of a Greek tragedy," Pittaki said. Perversion pervades Venice film fest with modern Greek tragedy 2013-09-01T18:58:43Z

Another layer of tragedy in losing “The Rundown”? It could be that it failed to draw an audience for the exactly the reason that it’s so badly needed. No more Jimmys on late night: Why we need more women comedians hosting now 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

But his tragedy is the same: He rebels but fails and is beaten into accepting his slave name, Toby. Review: ‘Roots’ for a Black Lives Matter Era 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

It’s not the thunderclap of tragedy that plagues his characters, after all, but nagging, incurable heart cramps. Theater Review: ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Adapted by Annie Baker, at Soho Rep 2012-06-18T02:00:00Z

It reminded me of a Greek tragedy, the story of a good man who just misses the mark. ‘The Comey Rule’: Why Watching Jeff Daniels Ruined James Comey’s Day 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

Just beautiful...Moving and magnificent, full of love, hope and tragedy'. Teen book club: Is The Fault in our Stars 'sick-lit'? 2013-01-11T09:00:00Z

A ski mountaineer and a history of tragedy. Sunday Reading: Winter Adventures 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

Her peculiar, unsettling worlds, rendered in prose trimmed of sentiment and ornament, overflow with desperation and tragedy. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

But it's also an endorsement of the low-key, seemingly casual charm of "The Descendants," which begins as a rambling tale about an inept father wrestling with tragedy and gradually builds toward a satisfying emotional payoff. "The Descendants": Clooney's Oscar-worthy role as a Hawaiian dad 2011-09-14T00:30:00Z

"Electricidad" was the result, and ancient tragedy became a regular and prominent thread in his diverse oeuvre. Luis Alfaro's 'Mojada' draws on Greek tragedy, Mexican American immigration 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Along with moments of triumph and tragedy, 2016 brought stories that ranged from weird to wonderful, funny to flummoxing. Senseless selfies, creepy clowns and Trump's triumph make year of odd news 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

For me, such tributes tend to shrink tragedy into manageable boxes. | 'Sweet and Sad': ?Sweet and Sad,? by Richard Nelson at Public Theater - Review 2011-09-12T22:30:35Z

Oddly, it basically recycled the same fabricated South African boating tragedy used in the original “Megalodon” broadcast, only this time the villain was a freaky great white known as “Submarine.” Discovery Channel looks to regain its bite with its favorite franchise 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

"Macbeth" has always struck me as Shakespeare's most psychological tragedy. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

While the character berates his actors for failing to appreciate his source text, Pak shows that the impulses that underlie even classical tragedies are much cruder and more banal than we might assume. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

“The Winter’s Tale,” one of Shakespeare’s final works, is an odd play: a devastating portrait of jealousy that ends in redemption, and a changeling’s tale that moves from joy to tragedy and back again. The Magical Transformations of ‘The Winter’s Tale’ 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

There are other innovations, too: he explores the wider emotional undercurrents of the tragedy, including Juliet's relationship with her parents. This week's new dance 2013-04-13T05:00:19Z

Emerging from the darkness of O’Neill’s tragedy into the crisp sun of a fine Cape Cod day was disorienting, but in the best possible way. Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill Side by Side, Under the Sun 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

A Drug Dealer Who’s Hasidic In the time-honored tradition of “The Godfather” and “Scarface,” Kevin Asch’s “Holy Rollers” combines two favorite American genres, the striving-immigrant success story and the cautionary drug tragedy. | 'Holy Rollers': A Drug Dealer Who?s Hasidic 2010-05-21T00:44:00Z

More compelling — and more challenging — are the racial and economic factors underpinning the tragedy. ‘Broken Harts’ Review: Examining a Family Tragedy 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

We are in our old age now and, the way we see it, we've lived a happy life, apart from one terrible tragedy. The secrets of long-term love 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Like many a drug addict, his tragedy was his ceaseless resort to self-medication, in pursuit of a little peace from the inescapable demands of his own mind. Sebastian Horsley: the tragedy of Soho's self-styled dandy 2010-06-24T08:00:00Z

She told me that Poe’s wife, Virginia, had died of tuberculosis — adding to the tragedy in his life. ‘Not Much Scares Me.’ Then She Entered the Haunted House. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

In the wake of these tragedies, the stunt community, a close-knit crew of thrill-seekers and physical virtuosi, grieved collectively, forced to consider the existential brinkmanship of the profession. 'It's a terribly fine line': the stunt performers risking their lives for Hollywood 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

These are rich dramas realised with integrity and devoted to English character, irony and tragedy. David Thomson on Stephen Frears 2010-09-02T21:05:00Z

And because Mittenhofer’s behavior is often just as ludicrous, “Elegy for Young Lovers” has a comic undercurrent that interacts with the tragedy he deliberately sets in motion. Review: 'Elegy for Young Lovers' Gets Strong Staging at English National Opera 2010-05-04T11:30:00Z

She is in France with her own family and her own tragedies; Abdullah is in California, running a restaurant for wealthy Afghan expats. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini – review 2013-05-23T08:00:02Z

For Hollywood, the intersection of movies and real-life tragedies has been a recurring theme this year. Tony Scott’s Suicide Complicates ‘Top Gun 3D’ Project 2012-11-06T17:07:38Z

Moribund and obdurate, Cassovan represents the old guard; he is the custodian and elegist of an unalienable tragedy. “The Shakespeare Requirement” Is a Sad-Professor Satire That Burns with Moral Anger 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Claire is struggling with an earlier tragedy of her own: a baby who died, and a subsequently strained relationship with her husband, the scion of the newspaper-owning family. Books for autumn reading: new novels by Wiggs, Jio and Macomber 2012-10-12T20:46:04Z

His disaffection spurs a decision that leads to profound tragedy. Review | How ‘Indecent,’ about art happening against all odds, speaks to our time 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

While the smart programming helped cement the gallery's reputation in the 1990s, the period was not without tragedy. Regen Projects, at 25, has grown into a fixture in L.A. art world 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

To the extent that “Hamlet” is an existential tragedy marked with moments of comedy, “Nutshell” is a philosophical comedy marked by moments of tragedy. Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’: A tale of betrayal and murder as told by a fetus 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

The closing Los Angeles works as the perfect summary of an album that constantly mixes tragedy with beauty, but ends with hope. Phosphorescent: Here's to Taking It Easy 2010-05-27T23:00:00Z

Michael Kahn will exit the Shakespeare Theatre Company next season by taking on Greek tragedy’s only extant trilogy, “The Oresteia” by Aeschylus. Kahn’s final season to include a rare staging of ‘The Oresteia’ 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

The comedy equation of tragedy plus time does not apply here. Dulcé Sloan is not here for your excuses that you "didn't know" about the depth of U.S. racism 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s about the tragedy of men not knowing what to do with themselves, not knowing who they are if they lose their jobs. Why Oscar-Winning Director Kevin Macdonald Decided to Make a Submarine Thriller 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

But the rapper said the tragedy doesn't make him feel less safe than usual. Wahlberg disgusted over Boston Marathon tragedy 2013-04-16T07:01:05Z

Spry and muscular at 69, Mr. Salaam hopes to express that sentiment in the way that “Remix” moves from tragedy to reconciliation. DanceAfrica Celebrates Rwanda and a ‘Living Sense of Grace’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

The recent tragedy in Afghanistan will not deter us from pursuing our fundamental strategy. Shooting raises questions about war's course 2012-03-11T22:17:00Z

This script may appeal to a broader audience, however: These days, familiarity with Greek tragedy is less common than cellphone dependence. Spoofing cellphone addiction, to hilarious effect 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

But it’s also a tragedy that asks Mr. Isaac to relive the anguished death of a parent at every performance. Oscar Isaac’s Mom Died. Now He’s Working Out His Grief in ‘Hamlet.’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Now, in a new book, “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present,” Treuer hopes to counter the narrative of tragedy from a historical perspective. David Treuer’s Rebellious New History of Native American Life 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

But there was so much tragedy during this show that I found myself callously thinking, "Blah, Blah, Blah." 2010-02-17T16:01:00Z

McCracken refuses to distinguish between the absurdity of comedy and the absurdity of tragedy. A Dark Fairy Tale of American Oddballs and Candlepin Bowling 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

Anne’s fate is an old and familiar tale, but in Mantel’s hands, the tragedy of the Boleyn girl becomes something new. Hilary Mantel Continues Her Bloody Brilliant Tudor Saga With Bring Up the Bodies 2012-05-09T10:45:37Z

Empathetic yet unflinching, it captured the tragedy of an anglophile leader who lashed back at his own people, black and white, after feeling betrayed by Britain. Heidi Holland 2012-08-22T11:56:32Z

Once hailed as a visionary for his structural ingenuity and sense of unblinking tragedy, his recent work has proved more divisive, with some skeptics dismissing him as a self-serious and/or limited-trick pony. In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

The tale’s greatest tragedy may be that during each rebinding, margins were routinely sliced, eliminating historically valuable marginalia. Exhibition Review: Shakespeare Folios as Venerated Relics 2011-07-07T12:01:10Z

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are longtime friends whose relationship is severed in the most baffling way, and Farrell’s constant attempts to mend the rift push their petty grievances into the realm of tragedy. The Eight Film Festival Movies That Got the Biggest Awards Boost 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

"Although it's only one part, you get to play a fantastic range of emotions, from comedy to tragedy to everyday stuff." Anne Kirkbride: A life of drama 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Lee Breuer’s adaptation of Sophocles’s play — a sequel of sorts to “Oedipus Rex” — reimagines a Greek tragedy as a Pentecostal church service, creating a soulful and often joyful exploration of forgiveness. 8 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Every step of the way, however, it will be tragedy, instead of good-versus-evil fairy tale. Alicent Hightower of "House of the Dragon" is the Karen of Westeros 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

But now, that family tragedy has spawned a charged feud. A Wealthy Family’s Battle With Drugs Laid Bare, but to What End? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

It is high-stakes corporate warfare mixed with Greek tragedy; Jay Leno hiding in a closet and Letterman stabbed in the back; and Conan O’Brien, years later, being chased into a comedy wilderness. A Late-Night Talk Show Is Not the Presidency 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Inquiries like that, although they ruminate on Jim Crow, 9/11 and the Ghost Dance, preclude tragedy in the classic sense. Steve Erickson’s ‘Shadowbahn’ is the best kind of experimental novel 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

While Wallenda's family history includes success across generations, it's not been without tragedy. ABC, Wallenda reach deal on Falls tightrope walk 2012-05-11T22:07:08Z

No ballet of the 19th century goes further into true tragedy: Odette the Swan Queen takes heroic responsibility for herself and also her flock of swan-maidens. Critic?s Notebook: The Many Faces of ?Black Swan,? Deconstructed 2011-02-09T23:04:37Z

"The opera is great, but Catan still wanted to improve on it and he was in the process of doing so when this great tragedy occurred," Domingo said at a news conference on Tuesday. Domingo dedicates 'Il Postino' shows to composer 2011-06-14T18:18:09Z

Joshua may be the one scrambling through “rococo hopelessness,” but he’s an endearing slacker insulated from real tragedy. ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

He concluded with: "I cry tears of blood for The Last Best Place & the warriors who died for this tragedy." Celebrities air post-election feelings online 2012-11-07T19:17:08Z

He saw Tamir Rice’s death as both a local tragedy and something more universal: “the brutality of difference being marked on somebody’s body.” An Artist Honors Tamir Rice, One Orange Object at a Time 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

But, also, it’s not a tragedy if they don’t. Q&A: Pedro Almodovar on memory, pain and the big-screen 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

What begins as a moody portrait of tragedy turns into a narrative that resembles a lovely, if somewhat mundane, romantic comedy. Review: Netflix’s Tig Notaro Documentary, ‘Tig,’ Recalls a Time of Uncomfortable Laughs 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Diane Polley took liberties, endured tragedies and set off on adventures, the full extent of which the Storytellers reveal with laughter and a deep well of melancholia. Movie Review: ‘Stories We Tell,’ Written and Directed by Sarah Polley 2013-05-09T21:37:27Z

His ability to convey complex emotions with absolute stillness lends his DeLorean an aura of tragedy that deepens and darkens the movie’s confectionary colors. ‘Driven’ Review: California Scheming 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The first can come across as an idealization of death, and yet another example of Black tragedy being made into a beautiful spectacle. Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

But more tragedies lie in store, and they tear at the gauzy fabric of sensuality that Husson has woven. ‘Mothering Sunday’ Review: Sex, Death and Literature 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Thompson’s voice, that magnificent instrument, finds the tragedy’s tone of hushed urgency. An actor transcends age: John Douglas Thompson melts away the years to play Hamlet at A.C.T. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

“A lot of public high school students will not have heard of him, and that’s a tragedy. The burden of protecting James Baldwin’s hugely important legacy is on teachers of English.” James Baldwin, Born 90 Years Ago, Is Fading in Classrooms 2014-04-24T11:30:01Z

The underlying tragedy of her escalating illness is always lurking. She Was More Than Just the ‘Most Beautiful Suffragist’ 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

In her readings, she also examines the losses of others close to her — aunts, uncles, cousins and friends — many of whose lives were curtailed by tragedy. Edwidge Danticat writes into the unknown in 'The Art of Death' 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

They also happen in classical tragedy, and this monologue, written by Aaron Mark, is called “Another Medea.” Tom Hewitt in ‘Another Medea’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Too often they cozy up to the audience in ways that are perhaps intended to make us feel complicit in the tragedy, but mostly just make us feel a bit patronized. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

Survivors of the Cokeville school bombing say they’re participating in the film not to mark a tragedy, but to mark a miracle: That no one but the attackers died that day. School bombing survivors participate in Utah film 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

It typifies an unconventional songwriting style, with episodic music married to jarring lyrics that stitch together emotional reactions to disturbing childhood memories and recent tragedies. Cymbals Eat Guitars rises above 2011-10-20T16:36:00Z

Every bit as personal and poetic as his fiction films, it documented a real-life Greek tragedy. Michael Cacoyannis obituary 2011-07-25T17:31:46Z

Yet even Sampson’s most elaborate digressions can’t dampen the attraction of reading about a life as rich with romance and tragedy. The Woman Who Created a Monster 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

The book is a Greek tragedy told in split screen, a frame-for-frame chronicle of a deplorable death foretold. Review: ‘Killing the King,’ on the Murder That Claimed a Peace Process 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Like Chekhov, she fuses wit, tragedy, and a remarkable capacity for observation; there are few human weaknesses she did not relate to with compassion and understanding. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Like “An Unfinished Piece,” “Country Life” traipses between tragedy and farce. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

That preference, Wang shows, led to one of the central tragedies of the one-child policy: in the desire to have sons, many families abandoned newborn daughters at birth, leaving them to die. “One Child Nation,” Reviewed: A Powerful Investigation of a Chinese Policy’s Personal Toll 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

A friend bails, for instance, or someone is recalibrating their life after a personal tragedy. Traveling alone isn’t for everyone — but for these adventurers, it’s the way to go 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

There’s a race on to reinterpret recent history, particularly sensational crime cases, trials and other tabloid tragedies, to see how they look in a more modern context. Review | ‘Lorena’ reveals how our culture’s lurid responses to the Bobbitt case obscured reality 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

It also comes just months after a personal tragedy. Damian Lewis Discusses the Future of ‘Billions’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

It was portrayed as the tragedy of modern China.” Books: Highlighting Differences in Interpretations of the Opium War 2011-08-18T15:14:28Z

The swirling undercurrent of the tragedy is here too often a ripple on the surface. A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler; St John's Night – review 2012-07-14T23:04:21Z

The worst month for Hull was in January 1968, when three trawlers were lost in the "Triple Trawler" tragedy. Hull seeks designer for a memorial to its lost trawler crews 2013-03-22T07:00:00Z

In the extensive media coverage ensuing over the following days — often overlooked was the compounding tragedy. For my Chinese American parents, ballroom dancing brought fun, comfort and a sense of belonging 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

Another part of what turned me mute was pure Greek tragedy: how could somebody like this have got himself into the mess he did? My dinner with Alger Hiss 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

But what makes the effort meaningful to artists — Holloway began thinking about the story after a family tragedy — may not make it meaningful to us. Review: In ‘Grey House,’ Broadway Gets an Expert Haunting 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

In a statement announcing the benefit concert, Grande said she hoped to "honor the ones we lost, their loved ones, my fans and all affected by this tragedy". Tickets to Ariana Grande's Manchester benefit concert sell out 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

At the time, Trump wasn’t even a joke Presidential candidate, so there was no ominous music playing in the background, foreshadowing the tragedy to come. Lessons from Playing Golf with Trump 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

He hurried to salvage scraps of pristine Indian culture, because, he said, “There won’t be anything left of them in a few generations, and it’s a tragedy.” Books of The Times: ‘Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher,’ by Timothy Egan 2012-11-11T23:33:07Z

At the same time, he knows what it’s like to be unsteadied by professional disappointment – and, worse, to be toppled, outright, by personal tragedy. Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 'Edward Snowden was warm, kind, thoughtful' 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

With a Rotten Tomato certification currently in the teens, this drama about a man who can’t cope with a family tragedy had our reviewer Manohla Dargis calling it a “waste of talent and time.” Holiday Movies to See (or Skip) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Richard III is a supercharged panto/tragedy, in the course of which – through sheer energy and gleeful invention – Shakespeare found a new voice. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z

You see, for Mr. Ayckbourn, as for Chekhov, farce and tragedy are no more mutually exclusive in theater than they are in life. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

She continues in a similar vein, finishing with the optimistic assertion that the opportunity to learn from history’s tragedies has not yet passed. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

This is, like “Hamlet,” a tragedy at once public and intimate, an examination of how the impersonal violence of the state can damage and distort individual lives. Review: ‘Wormwood’ Confirms That Errol Morris Is Our Great Cinematic Sleuth 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Onstage, she and O’Hara might also get closer to the molten core of the drama, which isn’t just about the tragedy of the modern always supplanting the antique, the dynamic overcoming the delicate. Review: An Audio ‘Streetcar,’ Not Yet Reaching Its Destination 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Chekhov-Ayckbourn fission – a fireworks display of farce, comedy and tragedy around a dining table. Dear Uncle ? review 2011-07-23T23:05:53Z

To me it’s his finest blend of tragedy, comedy and humanity, with an amazing all-female cast. Secrets of the New All-TIME 100 Movies List 2012-05-17T10:00:44Z

One group, responding to national tragedies, is dedicated to having local police officers removed from campus. New this week: ‘CODA,’ Chance the Rapper film and ‘Heels’ 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

Yet this is what we do after a tragedy like this, because things feel wrong. What We Should Be Thinking About Pop-Culture Violence, and What We Will Probably Do Instead 2012-12-20T13:00:20Z

The mystery, tragedy and adventure of Pip’s tale are outlined but never really conveyed. | 'Great Expectations': Gillian Anderson in ?Great Expectations? on PBS 2012-03-30T23:04:46Z

This tragedy was regurgitated before it had been digested. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-25T08:01:30Z

The first time I saw Alps, I pegged it as brilliant black comedy; the second time as out-and-out tragedy. Why is Greece's finest young director making London his home? 2012-11-11T18:00:01Z

But what makes The Way, Way Back such a delight, so neat and moving and funny, is that the grownups' partying is finally cast as tragedy: age-inappropriate thrashing against the chains of maturity. The Hollywood comedies keeping it in the family 2013-05-02T17:33:16Z

“Kat’a” is a breathless tragedy about a small-town woman trapped in a loveless marriage and driven to suicide after having a brief affair. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

This show delves into the visceral and life-altering effects of tragedy and the mental transformation that follows. 14 of the best animated shows for adults from the last decade 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Baldwin has long denied any responsibility for the tragedy in October 2021, in which a gun he was rehearsing with discharged, killing the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. Alec Baldwin Pleads Not Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

By 2015, we’re many centuries past Aristotle’s distinctions between tragedy and comedy, his rules for plotting, or his notions of mimesis or catharsis. What did “True Detective” in: How Nic Pizzolatto gambled on a risky plot and destroyed his actual story 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

No wonder, then, that Zambra and McDowell have made a good team here; “Chilean Poet” treats the thorny topic of collective identity not as tragedy, but as a familial comedy. ‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Playful Novel About (Yes) Chile and Poetry 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

The story of his life is the story of a dreamer turned fallen angel, of triumph rubbing shoulders with tragedy. Review: ‘Bulldozer,’ a Robert Moses Musical With a Rickety Foundation 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

In Eddie's tragedy, Miller was consciously drawing on an archetypal form. A View from the Bridge - review 2011-01-17T21:30:00Z

“I think of pain for so many blue collars today as something like Greek tragedy,” he said. The science of white working class pain: Trump’s appeal is rooted in the body as well as the mind 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

"It's no coincidence that tonight all the winners, the majority of our films are all about the past tragedies that happened on humanity," she said as she accepted her medal. Young filmmakers thank the academy at Student Academy Awards 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The book bursts with humour and is full of tragedy. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green - review 2013-06-06T11:00:00Z

Mr. Evans’s book carried a subtitle trumpeting its attention to success, scandal, sex, tragedy and infamy. Books of The Times: Near the Top at Paramount, Handling Players and Egos 2011-05-11T22:55:27Z

He seems to wonder whether any progression can amount to tragedy, or whether it is not simply as inevitable as passing time and changing light. Tokyo Story: No 4 2010-10-20T10:51:00Z

Perhaps the real tragedy of “Hamlet” is that it doesn’t end with a dance party; too many of its characters lie dead at the final curtain for anyone to shake a leg. ‘Fat Ham’ Review: A Queer, Black ‘Hamlet’? Ay, There’s the Spice Rub. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Each one begins with unspeakable tragedy — a child's visceral death in "Hereditary," a mentally ill teenager's murder-suicide in "Midsommar" — and culminates in a disturbing, fiery end. How the indie studio behind ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Hereditary’ flourished while breaking Hollywood rules 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Is it about World War II, a terminal illness, or national tragedy? The Emmys Have an Oscar Problem 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Over the course of five episodes, the documentary introduces us to several ex-military competitors who strive to find purpose and strength after tragedy and loss. 6 royal revelations about Prince Harry and more in Netflix docuseries "Heart of Invictus" 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z

And when, from flashbacks, we piece together the tragedy that shaped his volatile disposition, his true identity — and the film’s — becomes clear. Movie Review: ‘Burning Man,’ Starring Matthew Goode 2012-07-27T01:42:52Z

"We've been through a lot the past six months," Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval told a news conference, referring to a string of deadly tragedies that has disproportionately affected the northern part of the state. Firefighters halt advance of Nevada blaze 2011-11-19T03:38:00Z

Media coverage of trans life is minimal and usually depicts tragedies that stem from harassment and discrimination. Living and Performing ‘Femme Queen Joy’ 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

Of all the indignities and tragedies Homeira Qaderi and her family endured when the Taliban seized Herat, Afghanistan, the most poignant to read about is her father’s ritual of hiding the family’s books. Homeira Qaderi Wants Her Son to Know Her, So She Wrote a Book 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

The wealth and fame Arness gained from "Gunsmoke" could not protect him from tragedy in his personal life: His daughter and his former wife, Virginia, both died of drug overdoses. James Arness of 'Gunsmoke' fame dies at 88 2011-06-03T18:16:09Z

She could tone her blonde bombshell image down, project sadness in her eyes, and, like all great clowns, play her figure on the edge between comedy and tragedy. Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? 2012-07-21T21:05:42Z

In other words: His movies may include tragedy, but they always have some sort of inspirational value as well. 'The Fault in Our Stars' adds new power to films' 'tear-jerker' label 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Oscars In praise of Helena Bonham Carter, fashion tragedy Helena Bonham Carter is as disastrous a dresser as she is brilliant an actress. In praise of Helena Bonham Carter, fashion tragedy 2011-02-24T16:20:00Z

He has turned the British, who were the chief architects of the Palestine tragedy, into its prime victims. The Promise: an exercise in British self-exculpation 2011-03-04T14:40:36Z

The mother speaks through tears as she recalls seeing her husband the moment after tragedy hit. She lost her husband, her father and a pregnancy at 31. Now she’s helping others explore grief. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

His relationship with just about everyone onscreen ends in tragedy, but he’s still worth cheering on and losing hope over. Almost Infamous: 10 Biopics With Memorable Antiheroes 2013-10-23T09:45:20Z

“So kind of you to want to share this moment of joy before tragedy.” Family from viral Notre Dame Cathedral photo found, dad chooses to stay anonymous 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Earning two Oscars and critical acclaim, the film became a classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy and a staple of many English classrooms for decades. Teen Stars of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Sue Over Nudity in 1968 Film 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Was it a satire, or a tragedy, etc. “Have You Ever Met One?” 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Their sensitive compositions and muted emotions sometimes seem almost comforting, as if the pictures depicted a smaller, more manageable tragedy from another time. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Exhibitions Rekindle Grief in 3 Ways 2011-09-10T00:00:13Z

At its core, it's about the promise she made to Cosima, and at its core, that's a love story and a tragedy. 'Orphan Black' co-creator answers all your finale questions, teases season 4 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Its chief executive Matthew Thomson described the closure of a number of restaurants with the loss of 1,000 jobs as a “tragedy” and said it was a “very, very challenging time” for the industry. Fifteen Cornwall head vows to go on as Jamie Oliver's restaurants... 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

“Jeanne’s singularity and beauty of spirit is also her tragedy,” he said. ‘Une Vie’ Brings a Guy de Maupassant Novel to the Screen, at Last 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Images of tragedy that arrive in a divisive political context often have an off-ramp. Perspective | We used to think photos like this could change the world. What needs to change is who we are. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Personal tragedy, in a year full of them, sometimes had the same effect. We Want Our Friends Back! (But Which Ones?) 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

We had a couple of tragedies when we were younger, so it was out of the agenda of possibilities and we had to live with that. 76 minutes with … John Lydon 2012-05-31T20:30:00Z

My first thought was that we should do one of his tragedies, maybe ‘Il Bravo,’ which made such an impression on the young Verdi.” Another Tale, or Two, Of That Operatic Figaro 2011-06-03T18:19:59Z

In “Four Lions,” a farce that recognizes the limits of humor and the existence of tragedy, comedy is a means of illuminating the rhetorical confusion and knee-jerk pieties surrounding a charged subject. Film: The Gang That Couldn?t Bomb Straight 2010-10-23T16:08:00Z

This timeless tale of ruthless political ambition is one of Shakespeare's most action-packed tragedies. Review: 'Macbeth,' 'Tempest' among plays staged for free at parks around the Sound 2011-07-19T04:48:06Z

But when this Rothko says there is “tragedy in every brush stroke” of his work, we believe him. Theater Review | 'Red': Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in John Logan?s Drama 2010-04-02T10:10:00Z

This refusal to soft pedal the age difference — or pussyfoot around the tragedy of withered fame — prevents the film from sinking into sentiment. Review: For an Aging Actor, Another Chance to Be ‘The Hero’ 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

He looks to military history, Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, historical anecdotes, conspiracy theories, and dashes of William F. Buckley and Ayn Rand. “American Dharma,” Reviewed: Errol Morris Lets Steve Bannon Off the Hook 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

I thought about life, and in my life, there's never been a time when comedy and tragedy weren't occurring simultaneously. The surreal manipulation of "Black Bear," a comic thriller with answers that "hover out of reach" 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

She said the film’s premise — that the Madrigals received magical gifts as a result of overcoming tragedy — could open up a conversation about the history and reality of Colombia in an artistic manner. ‘Encanto’ May Be Accurate, but Can It Carry a Whole Country? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Durang, speaking by phone from Bucks County, wonders whether there isn’t an American optimism that looks for the brighter options, even though he thinks tragedy has the upper hand in the original. It’s ‘Vanya,’ loosely speaking 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

With so much tragedy and fear in the world, with people hunkered down in their homes, clothes were the absolute least of the matter. The Life and Death of Your Jeans 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

“If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more f—king time,” Stewart said. Watch Jon Stewart Weigh In On the Eric Garner Case 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Networks eventually halted reruns of planes striking the towers, worried that traumatized children would think the same tragedy was happening again and again. Three men guided millions through horror of Sept. 11, 2001 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

But we stand with the people of France as a friend and an ally, and offer the hope that there is a way through the unspeakable tragedy.” Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Other Late-Night Hosts Respond to the Paris Attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

No one will look beyond that at the downward spiral of events that led to this tragedy.” Sarah Reed wrote to family 'she had been sexually assaulted' in hospital 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

But though it assembles a first-rate cast in a story taken from reality, “Everest” feels icebound and strangely abstract, lacking the gravity of genuine tragedy or the swagger of first-rate adventure. Review: ‘Everest’ Revisits a Fateful Adventure in 3-D 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

“We’re living in a moment of confusion, tragedy and loss, but together,” Nelson said. Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

I wasn't well versed enough to necessarily know how to navigate a major tragedy that just happened. Muslim-American comics after 9/11: "I thought comedy was over, but it was more important than ever" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Lauren Francis-Sharma, observed, “Beneath it all lie tragedy and myriad loves that are tender and rich and fraught.” New in Paperback: ‘Let the Lord Sort Them’ and ‘The Five Wounds’ 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

The Poseidon tragedy received wide publicity at the time, in part because of the court martial of the captain, Lt. Answers sought in China's salvaging of British sub 2012-08-03T09:01:05Z

"An Iranian Metamorphosis" is a masterful work: the straightforward tale of the artist's detention — and that of his editor Mehrdad Ghasemfar — woven together by moments of humor, tragedy and surreal Kafkaesque absurdity. Cartoonist Mana Neyestani speaks on his Iran imprisonment, Charlie Hebdo 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

They are not so much escapist TV as fully immersive experiences of tragedy. Feel-bad TV: why are we obsessed with small-screen tragedy? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

Six months later, he sent the legislators a special message reminding them that “we are dealing with a human problem, a world tragedy,” and urging Congress “to pass suitable legislation as speedily as possible.” Tales of an aging WWII refugee: “We can’t turn our backs on the refugees of today” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

But as memory unfolds, the projected images shift with increasing frequency to footage of what we sense was a lead-up to tragedy. 'Ripe Frenzy,' a play about a school shooting, provokes thought with lyricism and restraint 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

I think it holds a mirror up to who we are when faced with tragedy and disaster, whether it echoes a tsunami, Hurricane Katrina or 9/11. The lives of Colman Domingo: acting in 'Fear the Walking Dead,' writing 'Dot,' now directing 'Barbecue' at the Geffen 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

That life, lived in bold strokes, has been measured by “tragedy and triumph,” as Cafritz often notes. Six years after the fire, Peggy Cooper Cafritz has a new home and collection 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The book's promotional copy hints at the nature of this tragedy; let it just be said that the events unleash enough tears to rival Seattle's annual rainfall. 'Goodbye for Now': Laurie Frankel's novel of love, grief and digital resurrection 2012-08-02T20:09:06Z

In “Blind Spot,” we witness a parent’s palpable, real-time denial of a sudden tragedy and relive every moment we’ve ever had of receiving the worst kinds of news: this isn’t real. The Power of the One-Take Film 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

A series of personal tragedies, including the deaths of her parents and her own cancer diagnosis, swept Zigman into what she calls “so many dormant years.” Review | Laura Zigman’s ‘Separation Anxiety’ tackles middle-aged loneliness with a perfect mix of grief and humor 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

There is little in the "lost archive" to foreshadow these legal problems and personal tragedies. Major Beach Boys memorabilia being auctioned off 2013-04-19T11:15:12Z

In April 1999, the tragedy that dominated national headlines was the shootings near the city of Littleton, Colo., at Columbine High School, where two students murdered 12 classmates and one teacher. Ferguson is now a symbol, not a place

The language is great, the moments are great, and as the episodes become much more emotional, we're into the realm of high drama and tragedy. Jessica Lange's fright-fest in "American Horror Story" 2011-10-04T10:08:59Z

A journal is a small first step but only a paltry comfort, unable to offset such a monumental tragedy. Now on Netflix: Portraits of Grief With Unplanned Relevance 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

The parents’ experience is threaded with those of other families drawn into the tragedy. Review: ‘American Crime,’ a Series Where Justice Is Far From Black or White 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

“This poor guy is taken up by what’s going to be a tragedy in his life. But this scene is comic relief.” Chris Matthews is America’s greatest champion of ‘Love Actually.’ So we watched it with him. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

“The Medium,” a compact tragedy in two acts from 1945, to Menotti’s own libretto, was his first great hit. Critic?s Notebook: Another Season of Change for Spoleto 2011-06-03T22:42:46Z

His tragedy could serve as an allegory for Mayotte — an impoverished place neglected by France, though a better option nonetheless for huge numbers of desperate migrants arriving from the neighboring Comoro Islands. Four Social Novels in Translation Consider the World’s Ills 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

For me at my lowest, their tragedies felt very similar to each other and to my own experience. Amid depression, bleak stories can be as consoling as self-help 2013-02-04T14:39:32Z

The film, “Lebanon,” which opens Friday, uses that tragedy and the failed war as unspoken historical context. Film: ?Lebanon,? Samuel Maoz?s Tank?s-Eye View of War 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z

Sheridan's satire on the theatrical world features Mr Dangle and Mr Sneer, two carping critics who accompany Mr Puff to the rehearsals of his historical tragedy The Spanish Armada. John Mullan's 10 of the best: plays within plays 2012-05-25T21:55:09Z

Using to highlight tragedy was, and still is, a technique that needs to be approached with caution. Why Comic Relief is still a cunning plan 2013-02-04T22:46:53Z

She co-founded the organization to support structural change in the justice system — the kind of change intended to prevent tragedies like the one that led to George Floyd’s killing. Building Public Places for a Covid World 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Almost twenty-five hundred years ago, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides wrote tragedies about the human spirit shattered, corrupted, and abused by war. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Fellowes may be channeling the grim of Victorian tragedy but enough of his signature flair and a few anachronistic touches make Belgravia's bleaker elements palatable. "Belgravia": Where "Downton Abbey" meets Dickens, except with a more dashing, less hungry orphan 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

They all pale, necessarily, to Bean and Bashor, who round out this flawed but promising material with as much comedy, tragedy, sweetness and pain as they can muster. ‘Beaches,’ in pre-Broadway tryout in Chicago, is overwhelmed by its score 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Similarly, while the final two episodes of Season 5 feature farewells to two major characters, that season’s penultimate episode, “Long Term Parking,” is the one that really rises to the level of tragedy. ‘The Sopranos’ 20th Anniversary: Here’s Your Complete Guide to Rewatching It 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

They say that guns don't kill people – people do – but here was a tragedy you could blame almost entirely on the gun, just for being there. The Repo Man; 12 Year Old Lifer: True Stories – TV review 2013-05-03T06:00:00Z

As Philip stands at the entrance to his own circle of hell, beset by moral pitfalls among others, he hears a snippet of news about this parallel tragedy. 'The Americans' Recap: Intimacy in the Line of Duty 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Gay rodeoers struggled to withstand the tide of discrimination and tragedy. How gay rodeos upend assumptions about life in rural America 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

Maybe it’s also a wistful kind of tragedy about what can’t be chiseled or changed. Review: A Playful ‘Pygmalion’ From Bedlam? Bloody Likely 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Remove the monstrosity from Alexandra and Chance, and you also remove the potential for “Sweet Bird” to be a tragedy as well as a melodrama. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Monsters and Ghosts 2013-07-11T15:00:18Z

“Transforming tragedy into comedy requires time—not too little, yet not too much,” the researchers write in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. Psychology helps explains why Louis C.K. is so funny 2013-12-18T13:15:00Z

Despite repetitions, Twomey manages to maintain suspense as the tragedy builds to its inevitable finale. The U.S. military expected a Japanese attack in 1941 - but not in Hawaii, explains 'Countdown to Pearl Harbor' 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Throughout this episode, there is some foreshadowing of the looming tragedy. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 7: Secret Origins 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

It's a crying shame Blair diddled us so much at home, stuck us in a cruel domestic farce, when he's far more impassioned about global tragedy. Rewind TV: The Tony Blair Interview With Andrew Marr; The Hunt for Britain's Sex Traffickers; I Am Slave 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Just as Ralph Ellison sought to wring the marvelous from the terrible, Hurston boldly found humor in the midst of tragedy and disruption. The Harlem Renaissance Through Zora Neale Hurston’s Eyes 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

The respected, accomplished Daniels has previously explored the ravages of war via searing Greek tragedies. In this ‘Lysistrata,’ sex and war don’t mix 2013-07-25T22:40:24Z

The charismatic Scottish actor Alan Cumming portrays not only the murderous general, but also every other major role in a reimagining of this classic tragedy as the frenzied outpourings of a diseased, disintegrating mind. Theater Review: Alan Cumming in ‘Macbeth’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-08T20:59:33Z

Binoche is set to play the lead character in a modern production of the Greek tragedy, Antigone. Binoche returns to London stage 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The two form an amiable, productive partnership — not only is Soto smart, she's as hardworking and dogged as Bosch, driven in part by a formative tragedy in her childhood. Michael Connelly sends Harry Bosch into 'The Burning Room' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Sagan’s sense of emotional tragedy is indeed that of the great dramatists. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Trevor Noah told Thursday’s “Daily Show” audience how much loves American politics because it includes everything from tragedy to comedy. “Like hearing that someone roofied Bill Cosby”: Trevor Noah dissects the hilarious irony of the Ted Cruz birther movement 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

They go off to war in 1914, leaving behind romantic heartbreak and family tragedy. Private Peaceful – review 2012-10-11T20:00:01Z

As soon as I had a space in which to work again, I shut out the thoughts about how the tragedy had completely derailed me and focused on my materials and making a mess. Things we lost in a hurricane 2012-11-12T20:46:00Z

What he recognizes, though, is not the tragedy of pride they prescribed but a tragedy of faith. Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Face Death Onstage 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

It also restlessly, if not satisfyingly, shifts between comedy and tragedy — a McDonagh specialty — splattering blood along the way. Review: On Violence and the Pain of Others in ‘Three Billboards’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

But Conlon's conducting also was alive to the desolate tragedy, the tender lyricism, the flashes of grotesque humor and circusy burlesque. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z

“We build monuments to winning wars and tragedies, but I need a monument to maintaining,” Ms. Council said. Acrylic Nails Get the Fine Art Treatment 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

“We’ll do all we can to prevent tragedies like this from happening.” Perspective | Facebook still denies what it is. The Cleveland murder shows how. 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

“But the better the story, the worse the human tragedy. When I started this film I’d have never believed anyone who told me the film would be more relevant almost six years down the line.” 'Phenomenally saddening': inside the sordid world of America's for-profit colleges 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

That a mere mortal was tasked with reshaping her, trying, that is, to wrest the chisel away from the hand of Nature herself, makes for Greek levels of tragedy. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

Conor Madden, playing the title character of Shakespeare's tragedy, suffered a gash beneath his eye and collapsed at Monday's production in the southwest city of Cork. Irish `Hamlet' suffers abrupt end in sword mishap 2011-03-22T12:44:13Z

It’s part promotional video, part backstage doc and — in retrospect — part tragedy. ‘Avicii: True Stories’ Review: The Arc of Fame, Cut Short 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

She stayed for two, mostly happy, seasons, appearing in everything from Greek tragedy to Aldwych farce. Pat Keen obituary 2013-03-21T13:38:50Z

This was hardly unprecedented; for generations after Shakespeare’s day, it was common in English theater to provide happy endings for his tragedies. Music Review | Metropolitan Opera: At the Met, What a Piece of Work Is This Man 2010-03-18T00:00:00Z

In most Holocaust dramas, the Nazi atrocities are the be-all and end-all of human tragedy. The Model Apartment: A Great Play Rediscovered 2013-10-16T12:00:01Z

Or is life a tragedy that requires no technique? Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Felicity Jones plays Kim, a former teen skateboard champ who abandons it all after a family tragedy. Chalet Girl ? review 2011-03-17T23:15:00Z

In its raw rendition of ordinary tragedy, the sketch compares with the most strident portraits that Goya would draw 250 years later. Review: A Florentine Artist's Two Aesthetic Lives 2010-02-19T13:15:00Z

It's a clear example of when governments relax regulations, tragedies occur. Democracy, not consumption is "how we will amass power to challenge the corporate behemoth" 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

"It didn't take a tragedy, and then a miracle, to get us excited about this," said Sharon Levy, executive vice president of original programing at Spike. After Chile rescue, U.S. to get mining reality TV show 2010-10-14T17:04:00Z

The news changed the nature of the season's viewing experience, turning the audience into witnesses to a tragedy they knew was unfolding while the players involved remained oblivious. From #Scandoval to "Love Is Blind," understanding the new reality heyday in this Hot Labor Summer 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z

“Bittersweet” is about learning a loved one is about to die, and facing the impending tragedy with an open heart, and surviving it. Review: Zac Brown Band’s ‘Jekyll + Hyde’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Each is still grieving, and anyone watching can relate to the way tragedy can taint a place that already feels small. "Reservation Dogs" creator on evolving the show's representation & storytelling: "It's not finished" 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Outside of our home, my mother advised my sister and me to keep quiet about the details of our tragedy. Mourning Through Horror Movies 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

This week: A Golden State-themed makeover of a Shakespearean fantasy, an ancient Greek tragedy with a gospel twist, and a new adaptation of a classic French farce. L.A. theater openings, June 14-21: 'California: The Tempest' and more 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Perhaps exhausted by all the one-man tragedies he had been enduring, Aeschylus decided it was time for some innovation and added a second actor to the mix in 471 B.C. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z

The outpourings of flowers, wreaths and stuffed animals after mass tragedies are joined by artists wanting to contribute. A ‘Sad Kinship’ as Towns Build Memorials to Victims of Mass Shootings 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

When something so on-the-nose happens to a character on a show like “Homeland,” we either scoff at the implausibility or admire the symmetry in the storytelling — the irony, the tragedy. Review | Packed with 9/11 hindsight, ‘The Looming Tower’ looms a lot 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

It’s one of the tragedies of the last century’s American fiction that he wasn’t able to relight it. The Pleasures of a Writer Who Was ‘Richard Pryor on Paper’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Perhaps organizers of the games conceptualized 9/11 as a tragedy of global proportions, worthy of tribute for an international audience.  Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z

David Simon likened “The Wire” to a Greek tragedy, by which he meant that sociology is an omnipotent, merciless god that twirls with the fate of mortals. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z

The ultimate tragedy of the tale is that Edie herself – so hopelessly desirous of a role and so unequipped to deal with life – remains eclipsed in death by Warhol's achievements as an artist. Michael Bracewell's top 10 art books 2012-06-06T10:35:15Z

"We are deeply saddened by the two tragedies that occurred last week in Las Vegas outside Electric Daisy Carnival," she told The Associated Press in a statement. 2 Electric Daisy Carnival revelers die in Vegas 2012-06-18T01:21:26Z

Especially after Disher and Givens marry in Georgia, and a baby of likely mixed race impends, the musical pushes too hard toward tragedy, winding up well short at melodrama. Review: In ‘Black No More,’ Race Is Skin Deep, but Racism Isn’t 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Most likely, audiences are fatigued by a steady flow of this kind of "help the nice family recover from tragedy" programming. "Breakthrough With Tony Robbins": Robbins needs a little self-help 2010-07-28T19:40:00Z

Josie Rourke is the director of The Physicists, a work that she says "starts off as a farce but ends up as a tragedy". Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z

Their assignment was to create characters on the Web site theatron.org and use them to block scenes from the gory revenge tragedy “Titus Andronicus,” to see how setting can heighten the drama. Humanities 2.0: Giving Literature Virtual Life 2011-03-21T22:33:37Z

He channeled the tragedy into his waltz, earning a 21/30 — and not one, but two “knock-out” references from Brooke. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Zorro on a Zipline 2013-04-16T09:45:55Z

With the third and fourth symphonies Thursday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the tragedy of the loss of young life became the actual content of the program. Dudamel gives Schubertian tragedy a surprising buoyancy 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Comedy is tragedy plus time, they say, but it is also true that tragedy is comedy plus time. Are We Having Fun Yet? ‘Party Down’ and the Sadness of the Sitcom Revival 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

But if the sound failed, that would be a tragedy. Review: ‘The Music of Strangers,’ on Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Greater depths, for all these tragedies, simply go unplumbed. Jean Kennedy Smith Remembers Growing Up Kennedy 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

It's a tricky shift from broad comedy to impassioned tragedy, and the opening section of Agamemnon, the next part, feels stiff. The Trojan War and Peace – review 2012-07-16T17:00:01Z

But with this situation Trump has placed a nitro-boost on the chronology involved in the classic "tragedy plus time equals comedy" equation. Science and karma: Late night comedy makes peace with joking about Trump's COVID diagnosis 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

He talks in a director's statement about his film being "a suburban Medea," but, in fact, a better reference point than lofty Greek tragedy would be the down-to-earth novels of James M. Cain. 'A Wolf at the Door' a disturbing noir tale of obsession 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the movie pivots on two varieties of tragedy, and both emerge from the misdeeds of the upper crust: the predatory desire of the powerful and the vanity of the smart set. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

When grand vision meets repeated humiliation we usually get tragedy or comedy. A Team of Engineers Invented a Brick-Laying Robot. This Is Their Story. 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

The artists in the show responded to the disruption and tragedy of the pandemic and intensity of our political climate by getting to work. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

And exiles from wars and tragedies in between. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

By contrast, the 1961 "Rabindranath Tagore" by Satyajit Ray provided absorbing and enlightening context on the upbringing, travels, personal tragedies and political climate that informed Tagore's artistry and convictions. Rabindranath Tagore documentary doesn't do him justice 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

A summer of racial unrest is the backdrop for this Los Angeles crime thriller about two families — one black, one Korean — whose paths re-intersect decades after they were first linked by tragedy. July paperback releases: 14 books worth reading 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rocha decided to explore young love by using Shakespeare’s tragedies, and was inspired to experiment with the text and the characters by the Roundhouse’s unusual Dorfman Hub theater space. The World Takes On Shakespeare at London Festival 2012-07-04T21:37:11Z

To me, Facebook and Twitter are too chilly for sharing tragedies with our nearest and dearest. Social Q’s: Announcing a Death on Social Media 2012-10-18T16:47:08Z

Finner repeatedly refused to provide timelines Wednesday in what was just his second press briefing since the tragedy, saying the case was still under investigation. Police radioed ‘crushing-type injuries’ as concert continued 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Learning from these failures will go a long way in making sure that similar tragedies do not happen to another performer or another family,” he said. Georgia jury awards $8.6M in ‘Walking Dead’ stuntman’s death 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Even going into a tragedy with eyes wide open, we cling to our hopes; it’s faith that keeps us enraptured, despite knowing that the flagstones are laid down in a path to the grave. Perspective | What book has the most disappointing ending? Readers have many opinions. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

I am devastated by the recent tragedy in Colorado & did not mean to make light of what happened. Sorry, Not Funny: Dane Cook Apologizes for Colorado Shooting ‘Joke’ 2012-07-30T16:00:44Z

Sandberg seeks solace in the research of Martin Seligman, the celebrated psychologist, who has characterized the “three ‘P’s,” habits of mind that hinder recovery after trauma or tragedy. Sheryl Sandberg’s “Option B” and Facebook’s Way to Grieve Book Review 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

This wasn’t just interviewing the unruly gang at the local tattoo parlor; this was probing the aftermath of a tragedy. “S-Town” Investigates the Human Mystery 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

In the way of heroes and heroines marked for tragedy, Gloria and Constitucion are orphaned as adolescents and sent to live with an aunt. In Daniel Sada's ticklish 'One Out of Two,' twins raise questions about self and identity 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

Was it insensitive for Gottfried to make light of human tragedy -- and foolish to bite the quacking hand that feeds him? Sympathy for Gilbert Gottfried 2011-03-15T19:55:00Z

The horrific tragedy in Charleston is an act of hate & terrorism. Beyonce, celebs pay tribute to Charleston victims, rally behind Jon Stewart 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

If it didn’t concern a momentous historical tragedy, the campaign against Ms. Lipstadt would have amounted to little more than a publicity-seeking nuisance suit. Review: In ‘Denial,’ Confronting a Holocaust Revisionist in Court 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

It’s got a definite End of the Affair vibe going on, and every year could use one extremely sad yet beautifully done British love tragedy. The 20 Movies We?re Looking Forward to in 2012 (And the 10 We?re Definitely Not) 2012-01-05T11:20:42Z

I was researching and researching, and then I thought, I can’t write my own historical tragedy. Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman on Conjuring ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

Regardless of where you think this issue ranks on the continuum of national tragedies, most will agree that the slaying of Cecil was senseless and entirely saddening. “Where were Cecil the lion’s parents?”: Twitter uses gallows humor to cope with dentist’s grisly act 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

“We really kind of immediately fell into a rapport and trust with each other, especially after the tragedy,” said Heredia. La Vie Boheme: ‘Rent’ musical celebrates 25th anniversary 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

“What’s the tragedy in that?” the eponymous heroine of “Medea’s Got Some Issues” demands. A tragic Greek character gets a comedic revival in ‘Medea’s Got Some Issues’

In a dazzling demonstration of Sathian’s range, the book’s second half jumps a decade later, beyond the tragedy of Neil’s adolescence to the smoldering wreckage of his adulthood. Review | Sanjena Sathian’s ‘Gold Diggers’ is a witty social satire with a dash of magic 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

When the man finds out, he curses Kintu, precipitating a chain of domestic tragedies that afflicts the clan for generations. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

She grew up in a warm, artistically rich home, but the violence and tragedy of the outside world loomed, both in the melancholy music she grew up listening to, and in her everyday reality. Silvana Estrada Arrives With a Devastating Album About Heartbreak 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

These others are willing to show empathy toward us in tragedy. We are all Boston, we are all Baghdad 2013-04-17T20:29:00Z

“The Past” might sound like the tragedy of a broken tea cup, but even in this bucolic countryside, Eros and Thanatos waft in under the drafty door. Family tensions simmer in Tessa Hadley’s exquisite novel ‘The Past’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

This book is more of a car bomb, both in terms of the tragedies it depicts and its wanton destruction of novelistic form. In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

The fact that both composers were intent for most of their careers on tragedy should not surprise us. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

More than that, Clark says, she worries that the case's entertainment value obscures the tragedy at the trial's heart. Marcia Clark on how her new book is different than the old Marcia, Marcia, Marcia 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

U2’s shows, which were rescheduled for Dec. 6 and 7, are the biggest concerts in Paris since the Nov. 13 tragedy. Eagles of Death Metal Return to a Paris Stage 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

The New Guineans, by contrast, inherited a tragedy. Extreme Travel of ?45 2011-06-03T16:51:51Z

It's a play bursting with references to other plays, including even one of the greatest tragedies ever written, Euripides' "The Bacchae." Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

But despite their satisfying if somewhat predictable existence in a sleepy suburban Southern California town, June and Oscar find themselves dealing with improbable tragedies, energy-giving fountains and a mysterious briefcase-wielding weirdo. Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen Play It (Relatively) Straight 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Winkleman said the family is “understandably too distraught to talk” about the tragedy. Toddler who fell to death from cruise ship 'slipped out of open window' 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

It was a tragedy that would reshape the family dynamic – her grandmother moved in to help her mother, Jane, a teacher, with childcare – and have a lasting effect on Blanchett. From ice queen to hothead: how Cate Blanchett negotiated stardom on her own terms 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

And the – cue the dark violin riffs and make sure those frosé glasses are filled to the rim! – tragedy strikes. HBO's "The Undoing" does the incredible: Make us nostalgic for lifestyles of the rich and bothered 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z

This debut follows Daiyu, a Chinese girl in the 1880s, who reinvents herself to survive a string of tragedies. 18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

That Maura reveals herself to be a woman all along, but too late for Rose to really register it, is the great tragedy at the end of this season. ‘Transparent’ Season 2 Finale: It’s a Boy 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

For many, I trust, this account will provide company and insight into the tragedies and delights of middle age. Memoirs of Womanhood by Emily Ratajkowski, Toufah Jallow and N. West Moss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

In juxtaposing optimism with tragedy, “Company B” becomes a character study of America at war, and it extracts some profound truths about that experience. Review | Washington Ballet dancers are tested by contemporary works 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

This compassionate, tough-loving production finds the ecstasy, tragedy and exhilarating madness of what it means to be part of this eternal ball of confusion. Review: ‘Cloud Nine,’ a Comedy of Fluid and Complicated Couplings 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

But beneath the Edwardian faces of order, passions and intrigue seethe, leading to later tragedy. This week's new theatre 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z

No great romance exists without tragedy in the mix, whether specified or implied. "Outlander": In the third season, all's unfair in love and war 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

But the tragedy of Hurricane Sandy may have a silver lining. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z

The tragedy, and unsubstantiated rumors that Mr. Mateen may have been a closeted gay man, opened up a rare mainstream discourse, both in United States and in the Muslim world, on queerness in Islam. The Scion of a Pakistani Political Dynasty Comes Out 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

“We didn’t want in any way to hurt or insult people that went through such a horrendous tragedy,” she said. Model criticized for skimpy Chernobyl-themed photo apologizes, says she wasn't even there 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

But even those advertising their tragedies on social media are doing so because they crave attention, whether positive or negative, in a bid to boost their low self-esteem. 7 telltale signs social media is killing your self-esteem 2014-03-11T12:50:00Z

By the end it has transcended all categories and conventions and revealed something about the tragedy of modern life that seems almost unspeakably ancient. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

It’s something of a tragedy that Jimmy is going to turn into the person he’s going to become. Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould on Better Call Saul: 'It could have been a huge flop' 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

The opening credits sequence has been remixed to make the show into a horror film and episodes have been re-cut to make the show into an existential tragedy. Here’s why a “Full House” reboot is an insane idea 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

A single image of distant hilltops, white-capped to suggest the bleached bones of long-gone buffalo, evokes the tragedy of the West more powerfully than any page of impassioned dialogue. Review: A ‘Woman Walks Ahead,’ and Sitting Bull Stands Up 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Deranged optimism and self-importance are American birthrights, and if his confidence weren’t so poignantly outsized — and if Anderson were in a tougher mood — Gary would be a figure of tragedy rather than of comedy. ‘Licorice Pizza’ Review: California Dreaming and Scheming 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

Beth conceals as much as she reveals, feeding us slow drips of information that channel disturbing undertones of sin and tragedy. The Blue Book by AL Kennedy ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:06Z

But I’m not reviewing another run-of-the-mill adaptation of “Hamlet”; “Fat Ham,” James Ijames’s outstanding transformation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into a play about Black masculinity and queerness, both echoes “Hamlet” and finds a language beyond it. ‘Fat Ham’ Review: Dismantling Shakespeare to Liberate a Gay Black ‘Hamlet’ 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Stories about the “tragedy” of immortality spring eternal. Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

It is smart, devastating, unpredictable and enviably adept in its handling of tragedy and its fallout. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Sensitive and illuminating, they do not ignore the tragedy’s scope. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

As the titular Uncle, the fresh-faced Matthew Cottle seems some way shy of his professed 47 years, yet this only compounds the tragedy of Vanya's compulsion to wish his life away. Dear Uncle - review 2011-07-14T16:14:28Z

Hollywood history plays first as tragedy and second as farce. TV Weekend: Liz and Dick 2012-11-23T13:00:18Z

What must we do as mothers to prevent a tragedy of the sort from happening again?” Motherlode Blog: Staying in an Abusive Marriage 2011-08-23T17:07:32Z

The events of Eli’s life are often fatal and tragic, but fate and tragedy do not overpower the story. Review | ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ is a high-stakes coming-of-age story 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Why do we, whoever we are, respond more intensely to some tragedies than others? Empathy: Where does it come from and where does it take us? 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

His comeback, which began with the release of his second album in 1985, added a grace note to a career that courted tragedy at every turn. Critic’s Notebook: Michael Connelly Wants to Make a Film About Frank Morgan 2012-06-05T21:15:15Z

Here in 2015, we’re as far away from “We Belong Together” as that song was from “Fantasy,” and that lost decade is the root of this compilation’s greatest tragedy. Review: Mariah Carey's Collects All of Her Hits on '#1 to Infinity' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

In that release, she mined the tragedies and triumphs of history to create contemporary freedom songs that inhaled adversity and exhaled permission to live anyway. Jamila Woods’s Musical Celebration of Selfhood 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

But, he adds “I believe children instinctively understand passion and tragedy. And a 6-month-old, bank-robbing baby is a pretty good protagonist.” Bruce Springsteen on ‘Outlaw Pete’ and not sheltering kids from the realities of life

She pats the old dog's flank and laughs in a way that hints at many layers of underlying tragedy. Tim Dowling: a feline of discomfort 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

One of the most memorable responses to the Sept. 11 attacks was David Letterman’s emotional on-air speech processing his grief, which set a precedent for talk-show hosts offering healing words after national tragedies. If Comedy Is Making You Feel Bad, You’re Not Paying Attention 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

To me, a former small-town kid, it’s a tragedy, about a man whose dreams are beaten down by his needy, parochial, busybody neighbors. Generation X-Mas: The Rise of A Christmas Story 2011-12-24T14:59:14Z

Births and deaths, triumphs and tragedies are rendered in a flat, matter-of-fact affect that mirrors the Midwestern landscape, language and temperament. Jane Smiley brings 'Some Luck' to readers 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

And folded into its story is a critique of the image-conscious culture encouraged by social media, where tragedy begets a kind of fashionable sorrow tailored to soothe the ersatz “griever” more than the sufferer. TBS’s “Search Party”: A holiday trip through tragedy appropriation 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

But of course when one does not reckon with personal tragedy, when one does not remember, one ends up inevitably destroying one’s self and others. ArtsBeat Blog: A 'Big Love' Creator Takes on a Different Family 2011-08-12T18:30:25Z

She howls with an archetypal fury that brings the agony of classical tragedy to the contemporary stage. In 'Head of Passes,' a mother comes to terms with a storm, a secret and God 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

The vision of heroism that these directors present bleaches the past of its presumptions and prejudices, cruelties and pettiness, but also of its genuine humanity, courage, and tragedy. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Civil rights leaders will join survivors of tragedy for a frank discussion on the black lives matter movement in New Orleans this week. Essence Festival to Focus on Black Lives Matter 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

The book discusses, in Sandberg’s brassy voice, how to regain confidence, speak about tragedy, comfort suffering friends and rediscover joy. New spring nonfiction dips into social issues and politics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

Everything that makes this Verdi's supreme lyric tragedy was there for the ear to marvel at, writ larger than life. Triumphant 'Otello' marks Muti's return to CSO 2011-04-08T16:30:00Z

The weirdness and the dread and the tragedy seeped into every aspect of daily life, and of course, the photographic record of it. Photography From the Year Time Stopped 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

The argument has always been that tragedy, violence and terror, witnessed, purge us of them. L.A. Times' original 1975 review of 'Jaws' unearthed: We hated it 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

The one-hour documentary features four families who, between them, lost three fathers and a mother and all responded to the tragedy in remarkably different ways. TV highlights: ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ returns for Season 13

In order to prevent further tragedies, Delos has replaced all of its workers with robots. Rewatching robo-sex: what can be learned from previous Westworlds 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Oregon’s artistic director, Bill Rauch, chose to open his 2018 season with this tragedy, and the season includes several other Shakespeare productions and a nontraditional revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” 15 Summer Theater Festivals, From Stratford to Williamstown 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Siller said, "Commander Brian Bourgeois had five children, and left behind his wife, Megan … It's a tragedy, but at Tunnel to Towers, we want to pay off their mortgage by Christmas." Frank Siller's Tunnel to Towers announces gift to family of fallen SEAL Team 8 commander 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

In the 20th century, film, theater and television tell the same story, as comedy, tragedy, thriller and farce. Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times? 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Many of those efforts, and many of those failures, produced tragedies and deaths. A History of Medical Innovation That Doesn’t Ignore the Side Effects 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

“Seeing tragedy always pushes you to move past it,” says Danny, the oldest, who beat heroin addiction decades ago. Watch Rev Run, Danny and Russell Simmons Tease Each Other 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Her best friend had passed away and Didi was transforming her "raw emotion born from tragedy" into her singing. 2010-02-17T16:01:00Z

Not just for the food, which is the ultimate farm-to-table version of amatriciana, but for a moving reminder of human resilience in the face of a devastating tragedy. Hunting for the Real Pasta all’Amatriciana 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

“But the sentiment is still valuable. Acknowledging the tragedy at the end of everything, while not letting it detract from the sun being beautiful — that’s the core of the whole piece.” ‘JFK’ Envisions an Operatic Ending for Camelot 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Deadline reported that New Zealander Andrew Niccol would write and direct the project and that the script was developed in consultation with several members of the mosques affected by the tragedy. Plans for movie on New Zealand mosque attacks draw criticism 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Life’s tragedies included the death of her first child, a daughter, from diphtheria, and the destruction of much of her early work at the hands of a jealous lover. It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

One is a picture of the lovers that will disintegrate before us as their lives change and tragedy occurs.” ‘La Bohème’: Puccini’s bohemians live on, in opera and in life 2013-02-14T23:41:36Z

The morning of the tragedy, Patrick — currently the lieutenant governor of Texas — tweeted a Bible verse from Galatians 6:7: “A man reaps what he sows.” Worst of 2016: Picking the year’s 10 biggest anti-LGBT foes wasn’t easy 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

Korean writers are expected to be "cognizant of the modern tragedy of Korean history," Bruce says. Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton bring Korean literature to the English-speaking world 2010-05-14T20:57:00Z

Storms will not stop us, the terrible tragedy of 9/11 will not stop us. Broadway takes a big hit from Superstorm Sandy 2012-11-06T17:42:10Z

They are headed to a picnic — and a tragedy — in the Australian countryside, and their headmistress, Mrs. Appleyard, had instructed them to wear their gloves until they escape the townspeople’s watchful glares. Costume Secrets From ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

It ends with the tragedy of Grenfell Tower, a high-rise in West London in which seventy-two people lost their lives, in 2017, when the building’s cladding went up in flames. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Humor, Mark Twain said, is tragedy plus time. A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

After many picaresque, darkly humorous, gleefully described humiliations and tragedies, Candide comes to believe that people must not just accept reality but work to improve it: “We must cultivate our garden.” Kelsey Grammer and Christine Ebersole take the L.A. Opera stage for 'Candide' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

In retrospect, the “Frankenstein summer” seems a fantastical interlude of happiness in lives marked by tragedy. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z

He would like to say to her, “Hey, I’m sorry for your tragedy and your trauma that you went through.” Anthony Broadwater was wrongfully convicted four decades ago — and fought to get his life back 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

If a tragedy occurs to a person early in their life it can, sometimes in good ways and sometimes in damaging ways, tie them to that moment in their lives for ever. Andrew Motion: a life in writing 2012-10-05T21:55:13Z

"Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over," focuses on the highlights of Warwick's life and career, touching briefly on the tragedies, from her memories of her niece, Whitney Houston, to her bankruptcy. Dionne Warwick on her new documentary and enduring career: "I am and will always be relevant" 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

She came to Brooklyn with her younger brother two decades earlier when their father hoped they could all start a new life away from the tragedies that shattered their family back in Tennessee. ‘Another Brooklyn’ reminds us of a Brooklyn far from the tony borough of today 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

For a company that bops cheerfully from German opera to Greek tragedy to Yiddish folklore, a lingering sojourn in the Middle East shouldn’t come as a particular surprise. A 9-Hour Play? Sit, Eat, Drink, Even Fall Asleep to ‘One Night.’ 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

No, not the one in San Bernardino, the tragedy that is dominating the airwaves and prodding “prayerful” tweets from politicians. This is why Trump is winning: “Muslim Killers,” manipulated fear and the other mass shooting we ignored 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Evidently trying not to wallow in lugubriousness, Mena pushed the tempo faster than the prescribed Adagio; the result felt more like an examination of the music's grief-laden tragedy than the tragedy itself. Sizzling debut by violinist Renaud Capucon lifts CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-01-14T17:38:01Z

However, when the birds do "sing", and Jake's primal tragedy is revealed, it is clever and very unexpected indeed. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld – review 2013-06-27T09:00:00Z

In “Coal Country,” the testimonies and songs cohere into a narrative of timeless exploitation, resistance and tragedy. ‘Coal Country’ Review: Songs and Stories in a Disaster’s Aftermath 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

"Manchester by the Sea," about a working-class family dealing with multiple tragedies, leads SAG nominees on Sunday with four nods, including best actor for Casey Affleck. 'La La Land' pushed aside as 'Manchester,' 'Moonlight' vie for top SAG award 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Jessie sees suicide as an existential act of freedom; we experience it as tragedy. A wrenching ' 'night, Mother' at Lost Studio 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

There have been plenty of successful dark and bittersweet musicals before, but not since Sondheim have tragedy and comedy been so illuminatingly entwined. This 'Fun Home' weaves tragedy and comedy into a wholly original American musical 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

“A picture book can never heal a tragedy,” Pinkney said, but “it can help us,” she added. Viewing the Civil Rights Movement Through Children’s Books 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

His disintegration is made all the more heartbreaking as the tragedies accumulate. Waterline by Ross Raisin ? review 2011-07-13T09:05:02Z

For Simon Stephens’s “Sea Wall,” Sturridge inhabits another young father coping with a family tragedy. Jake Gyllenhaal hopes hearing ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ is like ‘a phone call with a friend’ 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

The setting is bucolic but tinged with tragedy. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

"There are so few plays about functional families," Cain says — alluding to a dramatic trend that extends back to ancient Greek tragedy. A family adored, now captured in drama at Rep 2012-01-12T22:45:41Z

Medea A scorned wife plots bloody revenge in Euripides’ classic Greek tragedy. L.A. theater openings, Aug. 14-21: 'My Girlfriend Is an Alien! by Neil DeFacto' and more 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

The first three acts, here combined as one, are swift psychological tragedy. Review: A Moving ‘Winter’s Tale,’ With Women in Charge 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z

These big themes of betrayal and tragedy and divine comedy. Director Morgan Neville on “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead” and the last years of Orson We... 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Many public health experts in the UK believe they are witnessing an unnecessary tragedy, and that failure to promote the most promising method of helping people quit smoking is endangering the lives of millions. The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

“The Great Society,” a tragedy, needs more than that but instead gets less. Review: In ‘The Great Society,’ Another Presidential Nightmare 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

He lets them be the tragedy that they are, and as such they’re devastating. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z

My motto is 50 minutes of comedy can lead to 10 effective minutes of tragedy. Jerick Hoffer flips his wig for ‘Hairspray’ at 5th Avenue 2013-06-19T19:14:18Z

“She’s taken that big, operatic sweep of love and all the tragedies that go with it and in the process has referenced artists like Roy Lichtenstein,” Ms. Kazanjian said. Inside Art: Cindy Sherman?s Guises All in a Single Place 2011-02-17T21:45:07Z

And like such images, based on themes of history and myth, it elevates and softens tragedy through formal beauty. World War I — The Quick. The Dead. The Artists. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

The continent with the worst tragedies and atrocities has the least purchase on our generosity — even our pity. Review: Out of Africa (and Kansas City) Comes The Good Lie 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The film’s enduring power is perhaps most potent in its poetic final moment: Human flight now translated into tragedy, one of a life that cannot be — a timeless tale, Lee’s trademark. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Without this friction, tragedy – and he seems to view the history of Estonia as tragic – would be impossible. Selected Poems by Jaan Kaplinski ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:07Z

From now on, whenever I see a forest fire, I’m going to see opportunity rather than tragedy. Last year’s fires should bring a springtime of tasty mushrooms 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

To fight violence with violence is a tragedy. China must end silence on injustice, warns film director Jia Zhangke 2013-06-24T20:35:09Z

The Judy Garland story is an oft-told tragedy of greatness devoured by fame, by the entertainment machine, the audience’s habit-forming adoration and bad personal choices. ‘Judy’ Review: The Singer (Disaster, Legend) at Rainbow’s End 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Angela Carter once said that comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. My disability is not a joke 2010-04-13T18:30:00Z

And that is where the current author shines his light most beautifully — and also most usefully: on the aftermath of tragedy. Edward St. Aubyn sets aside autobiographical fiction in 'Dunbar' and updates Shakespeare's 'King Lear' 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

For Shakespeare, the spectacle of working-class buffoons trying to stage noble tragedy seemed to be inherently ludicrous, but later artists targeted their mockery at the élites themselves, re-centering their stories on figures from the margins. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

Sober but never dull, the film sketches in Galia’s shaky recovery while pursuing several mysteries that result from her incomplete memory of the tragedy. DVD: New DVDs: ‘The Saphead,’ ‘Seven Minutes in Heaven’ 2012-07-06T17:30:00Z

When tragedy strikes a New England minister’s family, the charismatic preacher curses God. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Maybe we are not as empathetic as we pretend to be in times of celebrity tragedy. What We Can Learn From the Bobbi Kristina Brown Tragedy 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Both the arse-covering elders and the repentant kids are held in that moment forever, without the possibility of ever facing their tragedy or finding redemption beyond it. Coming to bad ends: stories that refuse closure 2012-11-20T11:53:34Z

The second act is considerably darker, with various deaths and tragedies and disappointments. Books of The Times: To Wagner, With Love and Morbidity 2010-12-27T23:09:40Z

But despite a structural conceit that establishes the action as an exercise in deterministic tragedy, the show, directed by Joe Mantegna and marred by a mawkish underscore, lacks propulsive energy. Review: Lenny Bruce’s Shifting Legacy, in ‘I’m Not a Comedian’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

The Fosters The family turn to one another for strength after tragedy strikes in this new episode. Monday's TV Highlights: 'POV: Dance for Me' on PBS 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

They’re still standing, but next door is a nightmare, a tragedy. The East Village Fire: Love Saves the Day 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The filmmakers said they were always careful to not exploit the tragedy and include voices that were both sympathetic toward Malvo and not. Documentary series revisits 2002 Washington sniper case 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Obviously there was tragedy: his mother died in Auschwitz, I discovered that later. Have Photo Albums, Will Travel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

A: It entered the media zeitgeist through tragedy. 'Bully' filmmaker makes a documentary that touches a nerve 2012-04-05T23:37:04Z

We keep feeling it over the hundred minutes that follow, as we come to know intimately a tragedy and its reverberations. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

Clogged as it with film references, 30:Minutes was likely inspired by a real tragedy. 30:Minutes or Less: Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari in a Go-Nowhere Fargo 2011-08-11T21:05:00Z

“Ultimately, theirs is one of the most riveting stories of our time: a modern-day Greek tragedy about money, power, lies, family, truth and consequences,” a statement from the publisher said. ArtsBeat Blog: Madoffs on Madoff: Publisher Speeds Up Release of Book 2011-09-15T13:43:09Z

But she was tortured by ill health, failed romances and personal tragedy. Film legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:35:07Z

This question animates Mark Oppenheimer’s “Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood,” a poignant, deeply researched account of the Pittsburgh Jewish neighborhood in the aftermath of tragedy. What Happened After the Most Deadly Antisemitic Attack in American History? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Both films were in the works well before the April 24, 2015, centenary of the tragedy , which helped increase awareness of the subject.  Hollywood takes on a tragedy of history — in films from opposing viewpoints 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

It seems like an innocuous sentiment, but in reality the memorialization of American tragedy in the absence of critical scrutiny nurtures a slovenly, mechanical commitment to age-old mythologies of U.S. exceptionalism. Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z

In a worldwide case of mass hysteria usually reserved for raptures and Michael Bay movies, the iPhone 6 went on sale Friday, setting off global reports of tragedy and devastation. The iPhone 6′s weird affair of the heart 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Soon enough, "two weeks after the great national tragedy", the Berglunds put their house on the market and – minus Joey, now at university – move away. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

Livermore, in his fourth consecutive La Scala premiere, set the Shakespearean tragedy in a contemporary city of skyscrapers, with video images projecting a dystopian fate as it falls to Macbeth’s tyranny. Despite pandemic, famed Italian theater opens season 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Reynolds enjoyed the very heights of show business success and endured the depths of personal tragedy and betrayal. Actress Debbie Reynolds has died, son says: “She’s now with Carrie and we’re all heartbroken” 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

The patriarchal world of August Strindberg’s dour late-19th-century tragedy “Miss Julie” — with its rigid social hierarchy of masters and servants, and its entrenched puritanical ethos — may seem remote to American audiences. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Raymond became a recluse after the death of his daughter, so expect tragedy along with the titillation. Are indie films just expensive blogs? 2013-01-17T18:30:01Z

No one needs to see that puppy tragedy again. Here is Salon's curated guide to Thanksgiving weekend TV 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

But in the wake of tragedy, Ms. Schreck offers something more than catharsis. Review: Can a Play Make the Constitution Great Again? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

The helicopter collision is not the first tragedy to befall Adventure Line Productions and TF1. 'Dropped' helicopter crash: the media companies behind the show 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

He also knew how quickly and ruinously a joke might go wrong, how comedy can in an instant turn its face to tragedy. Review: ‘The Shadow of a Gunman’ Is a Comedy That Goes Bang 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

But overall, the liberal media "are furious that their far-left vision is falling apart," he said, "so they are using a terrible tragedy to attack their perceived political enemies." A tragedy in Tucson, and more arguing on talk TV 2011-01-11T11:16:06Z

As a stringer, or nightcrawler, he stays up until dawn monitoring police scanners and racing to the scene of tragedies just in time to document the carnage. 'Nightcrawler' shows how the news worm has turned 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Romance often rises from the ashes, a reminder that alongside tragedy, we often find joy. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels of the month 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

“There’s nothing that bonds people more than tragedy.” La Vie Boheme: ‘Rent’ musical celebrates 25th anniversary 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

If that crime doesn’t feel preordained, with the grim inevitability that defines tragedy, the drama goes limp, no matter how nicely vocalized. Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

“PETA’s billboard will remind people that the best way to prevent tragedies like this is to help keep smart, sensitive chickens off the road in the first place by going vegan.” PETA planning to put 'tribute' billboard at site of Iowa truck crash that killed 2,500 chickens 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Worse, his life story remained steeped in drabness despite its early beginnings in tragedy at his parents’ home in Amsterdam. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z

Like a modern version of a classical tragedy, the play takes place in real time, with a kitchen clock counting the minutes to the fateful moment when Jessie utters her final “'night, Mother.” A wrenching ' 'night, Mother' at Lost Studio 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

It's a tale of tragedy that begins when a college professor named Tony encounters a group of thugs on a dark road. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z

But who looks like me and sings this repertoire,' is a tragedy of epic proportions. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

The eloquence of their ancient voices speaks to the modern age, as if each phrase edges toward revelation and the indelible force of tragedy. 'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

There’s no question that race plays a role in these tragedies, but the plight of the poor sometimes knows no colour. Making a Murderer: another blow to our confidence in America's police 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

You really think there’s logic to that kind of pain or tragedy?” Pushing the Spotlight Away From Herself 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

Survivors have been waiting years for justice, she wrote, and in that time “the only thing that seems to be moving quickly is plans to make entertainment” from the tragedy. Depicting the Grenfell Tragedy Onstage, in the Survivors’ Own Words 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details is how you get the big, big audiences; by talking about your relationships, or your personal tragedies. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z

Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Red Mars,” for example, is about the colonization of that planet and the ensuing tragedy wrought by human politics, greed and ambition. Viet Thanh Nguyen: By the Book 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Director Matsumoto, a reigning comic on Japanese TV, manages a balance of farce and impending tragedy that would win the approval of the grouchiest child. New York Asian Film Festival: A Scalding Wind from the East 2012-07-06T23:42:38Z

He said "tragedies happen" and blame should fall on those guilty of the crimes. Hollywood responds to deadly Conn. school shooting 2012-12-16T04:31:05Z

My heart raced with anticipation but then slowed back to normal, as it always does when I consider the tragedy that provides donor organs to transplant recipients. In health care access, doctor privilege is real. This is how it works 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

The most recent novel by the Pulitzer-winning author of “Empire Falls” revolves around three longtime friends, now in their 60s, who reconvene at a Martha’s Vineyard home where tragedy struck decades earlier. July paperback releases: 14 books worth reading 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

He was not made for tragedy, really, but to bounce back, like a punching-bag clown; many of his straight roles have more than a little comedy in them. James Garner dies: In 'Rockford Files,' he was a perfect fit 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

For its website, the museum created the Fire Wall, an online scrapbook of photos, paintings, children’s drawings, poetry and other poignant responses to the tragedy. After the October wildfires, California Wine Country is ready to pop some corks 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

It was scrupulously researched, dissected and debated by Zadara’s Greek tragedy class, with the production as the second semester’s capstone. Perspective | No one will ever see this play, and no actors are coming either. But the show will go on. 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

In the midst of apparent family tragedy, the endlessly promotable Duggars, begging the media for some semblance of privacy as they sit before the cameras, will get ratings for one channel or another. Duggars' Fox News Interview Proves Fans—And Detractors—Right 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

First-grade teacher Roig-DeBellis' memoir describes how she saved the lives of her students and how she dealt with the aftermath of the tragedy. 9 books to help us understand mass shootings 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare’s plays have traditionally been imagined as a better fit, especially his histories and tragedies, with their troubling acts of violence and complex social machinations. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Aparicio became so invested in the role that when tragedy strikes her character, she suffers with agonizing realism. Yalitza Aparicio of ‘Roma’ and the Politics of Stardom in Mexico 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Finding levity in the face of overwhelming tragedy can be difficult, and some of the parents dug into unimaginably deep wells of courage to provide mirth when their hearts were breaking. What terminally ill children taught this doctor about how to live 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

After Friday’s terrorist massacre in Paris, as often happens after violent tragedies, a few shows didn’t. When TV Turns Itself Off 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Charles’s tragedy is that he’s a prisoner of an ivory-tower notion of royalty as much as Shakespeare’s medieval figurine of a king, Richard II, was. Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

“This is a potential tragedy that could be great for you.” 'Veep' Recap: Listen, You Are Beyoncé 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Not that “The Expendables” exactly rises to the level of tragedy or poetry. | 'The Expendables': Sylvester Stallone?s Action-Hero Action Flick 2010-08-12T23:03:00Z

It’s possible she shines most at the highest difficulty level, but it’s more probable that to fail at those places would have been too great a tragedy to bear. Review: Mariah Carey and Her Can’t-Look-Away Debut in Las Vegas 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

President Obama famously cried after the Newtown massacre, a decent man moved by a profound tragedy, but still was criticized for having cried. The Tears of Brett Kavanaugh 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

It just doesn’t feel right when there is a real tragedy at its core. Netflix's 13 Reasons Why and the trouble with dramatising suicide 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Lex and her sister Evie remain haunted by the years when they found solace in a book of Greek tragedies that “made us feel better about our own family.” Review | Five new thrillers offer guilt-free distraction 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

What started as a tragedy, he added, “has slowly turned into a celebration of life.” How Damar Hamlin’s Recovery Allowed Us to Breathe 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

“It was terrible to see things that survived such a tragedy should now be destroyed here,” he said in the 1984 interview. Menahem Schmelzer, Jewish Theological Seminary Librarian, Dies at 88 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

The tragedy belongs to his victims, not to the vapors of his political talents. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

Then, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Smith's life was blighted by tragedy. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z

“My thoughts are with @lexkypolice officers at this time of tragedy.” Cops grieve 'Krispy Kreme Doughnuts' lost in NYE truck fire: 'No words' 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

This should come as no surprise to you, but I’m more of a tragedy girl myself. Welcoming Back Live Theater Doesn’t Mean Agreeing About All of It 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

In the Greek tragedies, they are doomed characters, sacrificed by their fathers or murdered by their sons. Two New Books Look at Mythology With Fresh Eyes 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

Halls, the assistant director, said last week that he hoped the tragedy prompted the film industry to “reevaluate its values and practices” to ensure no one is harmed again, but did not provide details. Crew member sues Alec Baldwin, others over ‘Rust’ shooting 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Their relationship ended in tragedy in this issue, when she was abducted and killed in a battle with the Green Goblin, one of Spider-Man’s arch foes. Spider-Man Turns 60 Years Old This Month. He’s as Boyish as Ever. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

In “Cake,” that’s particularly the case, because it follows a woman weighed down by tragedy on a therapeutic journey from one stage of grief to the next. ‘Cake’ Stars Jennifer Aniston as an Accident Victim 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Princess Grace died in a car accident in 1982, casting a pall of tragedy over the family, but remains a style icon to this day. Monaco's Prince Albert to marry Charlene Wittstock 2010-06-23T12:12:00Z

I, at least, was surprised to sit down with a movie called “Judas and the Black Messiah” and discover that it seems terrified of the astonishing psychological tragedy lurking within its Judas. Movies Survived 2020. The Oscars Diversified. There’s More to Do. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

He cheapens the outcome of several confrontations by shortening them and downplaying their tragedy. Oh the humanity! "Zack Snyder's Justice League" wasn't necessary, but it brought what Whedon lacked 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

Using imagery of real-life gun violence tragedies in order to tell a story of one man’s laudable genius at violence does feel unusually difficult to take at the present moment. USA Network Pulls 'Shooter'—But Would It Ever Have Been Appropriate? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

"It was a tragedy of waste, really, and that became the play." Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

My family moved from Atlanta, Georgia to Boston, Massachusetts when I was a child, a dislocation that was the source of much tragedy, small and large. Rediscovering my family's history through cornmeal dumplings 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

He poured his — I mean this literally — he poured his life into it: his ideas, his thoughts, his wit, his graciousness, his sense of tragedy. David Rakoff’s Last Deadline 2013-07-03T16:16:53Z

Some of those people talk to the invisible interviewer and some don't, but what emerges piece by piece is a novelistic portrait of a struggling but resilient community trying to deal with an all-too-predictable tragedy. "Putty Hill": An off-the-radar indie breakthrough 2011-02-18T21:20:00Z

A piercing tragedy with Kafkaesque political overtones, it addressed the universal plight of stateless refugees from repressive regimes. 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z

Up is down in tragedy; in comedy down is up. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

That song really moved me when I was 12 years old — the tragedy and the loss that Waters felt. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Turning SEAL Assignments Into Stories 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

I am no longer religious, but I regard it as a great tragedy that more people don’t study the Bible. If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

The tragedy is that he's doomed to report on cuts, cuts and nothing but cuts. Will Gompertz loves the arts ? shame the story has to be cuts 2010-07-28T12:14:00Z

He said that as a child, whenever he saw something scary in the world, his mother would say, “Whenever you see a tragedy, look to the people that are helping. Focus on that.” Carmen, the Wonder Woman of opera? A soprano on playing the poster girl for freedom 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Many working on soap storyline development clearly use Greek and Shakespearean tragedy as a starting point. Oedipusenders 2010-04-14T05:45:00Z

“Theater isn’t about putting essays on stage,” de Vega complains after watching an excerpt from a Cervantes tragedy. GALA’s ‘Cervantes’ captures the twists and torments of a writer’s life 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

These days Zimmerman tackles religion, racism, homophobia and fatal tragedy on his journey to finding self-love. Nine Shows to Catch at the New York Comedy Festival 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

"The Great" presents the intrigues surrounding Catherine as a complex confection, a lush painting incorporating shadings of farce, comedy, tragedy, and drama. "The Great" is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we've been waiting for 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

We’re drowning in wildly inappropriate footage of real-life tragedies that no sensible person would ever think of shoehorning into a film. Forrest Gump 2: a sequel berserk enough to suit our hellish times? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

So much of the action comes out of a tragedy — the great war. Laura Carmichael Discusses Edith’s Evolution on ‘Downton Abbey’ 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

But amid the fear and chaos of that day, that was among the many rumors that spread quickly, making the early coverage of the day’s tragedy seem all the more dramatic and upsetting. Boston Marathon bombing: Why early reports are wrong 2013-04-16T19:27:00Z

He died in 1990 but lost ownership of the moniker he created long before that, adding to the tragedy of the one-time giant's fade into obscurity. Ewan McGregor dazzles in "Halston," which neglects to understand the legend behind the fashions 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

The pair are "sweet together" according to Tom Wicker writing in , who continued: "But their relationship lacks the spark that would make the tragedy of their situation really blaze". Orlando Bloom makes Broadway debut 2013-09-20T11:36:57Z

The New York premiere of “Julius Caesar. Spared Parts.,” adapted by the avant-garde Italian director Romeo Castellucci from the Shakespeare tragedy, will be staged Oct. Crossing the Line Festival Includes a New ‘Julius Caesar’ 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s about finding joy through tragedy and darkness,” he said. Better Than Besties: Why Gay Holiday Films Matter 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

That it was no fault of their own somehow made the tragedy worse. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z

Intertwined with this family tragedy is the image of contemporary China – a butchering society that feeds on greed, deception, corruption and material decadence. Pow! by Mo Yan – review 2013-01-18T21:00:03Z

But in recent weeks, as the centennial anniversary of the Tulsa tragedy approaches, I've realized that there is an important nexus between the two stories. The Tulsa Massacre, race and America: I finally understand my personal stake in writing this history 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

I don’t think there’s any denying that that is a horrific human tragedy and one with significant security consequences. Susan Rice looks back on her time with the Obama administration 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Spears’s youth was marked by tragedy: His mother died by suicide on the grave of her infant son when Mr. Spears was 13, according to the local paper. Britney Spears Quietly Pushed for Years to End Her Conservatorship 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

And bleak though the prospects look, the reader approaches the last pages with some hope that the tale won't end in tragedy. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

In a nod to Greek tragedy, the tale is related by two singers called Male and Female Chorus. Review: In Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia,’ a Savage Act With Resonance Today 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Instead, it ended with the worst tragedy in the French-Canadian circus company's history – the first fatal on-stage accident in the 29 years of its existence. The rise and fall of Cirque du Soleil 2013-07-09T11:44:22Z

It has a cast of thousands, tragedy and triumph, human frailty and strength, and could, with skill and a lot of luck, redeem decades of formula and bad faith. Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle Through Hollywood?s Rosy Glow 2011-08-09T13:34:47Z

The ensemble is stagelike and feels a little like a Shakespeare tragedy, or a Beckett farce, primarily because of the startled expression in the main figure’s face. A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

It was the last in a series of events, including family tragedy and multiple failed marriages, that made Walker reassess what he wanted to do with his life. Barber to hip-hop stars cut it close most of his life 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z

Now, more than 30 years on, when the country is still grappling with racial inequality and police violence, a new opera, “We Shall Not Be Moved,” tries to contend with the ghosts of that tragedy. A Police Bombing, Homes on Fire and an Opera That Grapples With It All 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

This week—which began with the tragedy of a deadly terror attack in Manchester, England, during the vulnerable moments after an Ariana Grande concert—was particularly distracting. Weekly Culture Review: Tragedy at an Ariana Grande Concert, and More 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Maybe what it needs is a bit of desperation – or even tragedy. Have you been watching ? Entourage 2011-03-22T14:19:48Z

My fictional village is a small, dreamlike place with beautiful people and pastoral landscapes – but also hints of tragedy beneath the surface. Adi Nes's best photograph: a man, a turkey and an imaginary village 2012-12-12T17:42:14Z

Rock and roll is absolutely filled with stories of heartbreaking and all too often horrific tragedy. The 7 most tragic band deaths in rock history 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

It presents a half-century of tragedy and turmoil in as a series of mordant comic vignettes. 'The Time That Remains': Darkly comic tale chronicles mortality and survival in Nazareth 2011-03-31T20:38:05Z

Marx was right about that at least: When history repeats itself, tragedy pops up again as farce. The Real Meaning of the Brexit Debate 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

Being a witness to tragedy — divorce, illness, stillbirth — places a guilty kind of pressure on the single protagonist, who worries that she’s becoming an “emotional vampire, borrowing other people’s misfortune and challenges as my own.” Review | Single, 40 and childless: Why is that still a problem? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Family members, neighbors and experts offer their perspectives on the tragedy that ended with an overturned verdict. New this week: Documentaries on Bieber, Fauci and ‘Buried’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

That includes Helena Bonham Carter, taking over the role of Princess Margaret and adding a few splashes of silky, lusty abandon to the tragedy already layered into her character profile of the sad, wild royal. "The Crown" and Her Majesty’s midlife crisis 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

These true-crime series fill a real need, one extant since Sophocles’ days: to see a story through to the point of catharsis or, failing that, ironic tragedy. Review: 'The People v. O.J. Simpson' and 'American Crime' Aim for Ambiguity 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

It's worth that for the title track alone, which is one of Costello's great musical tragedies. Throwbacks: New old sounds from Devo, No ID, Who, Jesse Saunders, more 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Librarian of Congress James Billington, who chose Trethewey after hearing her read at the National Book Festival in Washington, said her work explores forgotten history and the many human tragedies of the Civil War. Natasha Trethewey named 19th US poet laureate 2012-06-07T02:59:08Z

This is a tragedy trying to avoid recognition by wearing a disposable comedy mask. The Latest in Graphic Novels 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Carlton Television We're used to detective shows being predicated on tragedy: there's no murder mystery without a murder, and no murder without tragic consequences. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #14 – Morse 2012-07-30T11:20:37Z

After spending time in three foster homes, they moved in with an aunt and uncle and seemingly emerged from the family tragedy unscathed. Movie Review: ?Shakespeare High? Opens, With Kevin Spacey 2012-03-09T00:00:08Z

Many of her poems explore forgotten history and the human tragedies of the Civil War. New US poet laureate announced 2012-06-07T15:51:40Z

“I used to think my life was a tragedy,” he says. Joker review – Joaquin Phoenix’s villain has last laugh in twisted tale 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

Nine years later, “Katyn” was a national catharsis, breaking silence over a tragedy that affected thousands of families in Poland. Leading Polish Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Her Tosca arrived at the Metropolitan Opera last March, and on Tuesday, she revisited the title role of Puccini’s tragedy in David McVicar’s attractive, if stolid, production. Review: ‘Tosca’ Returns, Defined by Its Quiet Moments 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

Stephen Colbert called the situation “horrible and familiar, and horrible because it is so familiar,” noting that the tragedy was “the 130th mass shooting of 2023, and 2023 is only 87 days old.” Stephen Colbert Calls Nashville Shooting ‘Horrible and Familiar’ 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

Long haunted by the tragedy, The Who has for years supported a memorial scholarship effort in a Cincinnati suburb where three of the victims went to school. The Who will play Cincinnati, 42 years after concert tragedy 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

In one respect, the Paris tragedy represents a clash between two types of iconoclast. At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

What resulted could have been played as tragedy, but instead the kids figured out their own hilarious ways to earn, grift and steal in order to survive — and to have a good time, too. Comfort Viewing: Why I Still Love ‘Shameless’ 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

“Fat Ham” is thus a tragedy smothered in a comedy. ‘Fat Ham’ Review: A Queer, Black ‘Hamlet’? Ay, There’s the Spice Rub. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

People change as a result of personal tragedy, but forcing the show’s reigning avatar of unapologetic power-hungriness to play out another storyline about a woman victimized by men feels like a missed opportunity. "Game of Thrones," Let Cersei Reign 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

We then march up a hill to sit in front of a four-storey house with the front cut away; and there we see, both in live action and on video, the tragedy enacted. The Persians 2010-08-13T00:26:00Z

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Taming of the Shrew” were performed by his company, but “Hamlet” will be danced by the Washington Ballet, the seventh troupe to perform his popular adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. A balletic ‘Hamlet’ takes one giant leap from Texas to Washington 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

But for all the cultural lumping together of these tragedies, they're hardly as similar as we tend to believe. Cannes 2015: Amy Winehouse documentary screening gets warm reception 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Illustration: Steve May/Arena Recently I shared a train carriage with two people whose frank exchange of narcotic chit-chat – while not without its tragedies – was at least a break from the norm. Michael Holden's All ears 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z

It used to be attached to Noufel, a struggling pizza delivery man whose happy childhood was interrupted by a tragedy that left him in the care of uninterested relatives. Netflix's "I Lost My Body" will have you rooting for a severed hand 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

The relationship between George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, might just be the most dissected filial relationship in modern history — compared, variously, to Shakespearean history, Greek tragedy and opéra bouffe. '41,' George W. Bush’s Portrait of George H. W. Bush 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

But it will be a tragedy if they lose contact with classical music. Tough times ahead for US orchestras 2012-07-25T01:04:51Z

And perhaps it's not too much to suggest that, at some half-conscious level, he used Scrooge's dilemma to relive the tragedy of his own life: the missed opportunities, the squandered potential. 2009-12-25T01:45:00Z

Maupassant brings it out from behind the curtain with a brazenness that spans café-table ribaldry and biological tragedy, whispered refinements and violent obsessions. The Writer Who Sparks the Finest Movie Adaptations 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Sadly for him, the pursuit of this particular American dream quickly turns into a gut-wrenching tragedy. EC Osondu's top 10 immigrants' tales 2011-01-26T15:26:49Z

There's nothing solid in the background and little substance, so the family tragedy and the surface comedy do not hang together. Jeff Goldblum miscast in London "Prisoner" revival 2010-07-15T00:00:00Z

We’d only just gotten over the tragedy, we weren’t ready for the farce. White House downer: why Hollywood should steer clear of a Trump biopic 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

"I definitely feel like there are people that are just filled with bile at a certain point after a certain tragedy," Peet said of her character. 2010-02-16T15:37:00Z

“I think tragedy can also be urgency. I find myself going calm, and being demanding. I can bring an American arrogance to anywhere in the world.” Sean Penn: ‘Some of my best laughs have come out of the worst reviews’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Fourteen years after 9/11, teenagers too young to remember the tragedy in the first place are now mining it for comedy,” the author, Amanda Hess, wrote. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Because Watts fails to unpack — or even really mention — his relationship to race until this roll call of victims, it feels incidental, despite how poignantly these tragedies may ring true for him in real life. ‘Only Child’ Review: A Magnetic Performer Without a Story to Match 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

My idea of Diana's history is that her mother was also mentally ill, so there was a genetic predisposition that didn't become a full-blown illness until Diana went through a major tragedy. 'Next to Normal,' coming to 5th Avenue, tries to paint authentic picture of mental illness 2011-02-16T23:19:17Z

This is downright bizarre, since the play is a Greek tragedy — one that predates the Islamic era. How L.A.'s Islamic art shows might expand our 'Middle East' vision 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

It was almost a relief to slip into the shadows of mountainous ancient Thebes that night at the Almeida, which is devoting its current season to Greek tragedy. London Journal: A Nonstop Carnival of Culpability 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

In 1986, the team’s White House reception was canceled due to the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy. '85 Bears set for White House visit 2011-10-03T22:05:00Z

Be it a comedy or tragedy or history, staging Shakespeare is a team sport. A ‘King Lear’ that hasn’t fully flowered, at Seattle Shakes 2014-05-01T16:58:52Z

“Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,” which had a theatrical production last year in Atlanta, is a grim Southern Gothic tale of tragedy recurring through generations. New Music: Queens of the Stone Age and Mellencamp’s ‘Ghost Brothers’ 2013-06-03T22:05:09Z

The novel is not without its share of tragedy, but none of it cuts deep. 'The Boston Girl' by Anita Diamant is pleasant but lacks bite 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Last year the obsessive Arsenal supporter got into hot water with Liverpool fans when he criticised their team for not playing on the anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy. Alan Davies interview: 'I'm like a fine wine. I'm maturing' 2013-01-20T18:57:01Z

It would be a tragedy for the library if its leader were primarily interested in change without regard to improvement, and in efficiency without deference to tradition. Library of Congress’s leader retires, finding a successor for its next chapter 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

They chose Webster's tragedy, he said, "because it is so lusciously epic, so rich in its imagery and with such a ludicrously tragic ending". ENO joins pioneering theatre company for East End opera 2010-03-31T14:40:00Z

Divorce followed, but the book depicts it not so much as a tragedy as a joyful rebirth. Jill Soloway Goes Completely Transparent in a New Memoir 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Last time I checked, there were not a lot of laughs in Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Moorish general beset by the green-eyed monster. Review: ‘Othello’ Goes Hip-Hop. There’s Humor, Too. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

In a telephone interview from Portland, Ore., where she was presenting “Unwanted,” she spoke about her belief in the body and movement as repositories of meaning and about bearing witness to the Rwandan tragedy. Making Dance Out of the Unspeakable 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

He is often a poet of borders – between lyric and narrative, comedy and tragedy, fantastic and realistic. Poem of the week: A Fire Shared by Peter Didsbury 2010-06-28T11:43:00Z

The Amazon series, starring Billy Bob Thornton in the title role, has seen McBride chase redemption for a case that ended in tragedy and undermined his career, psyche and health. New this week: ‘The Starling,’ Diddy and Billy Bob Thornton 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

That event was the spark for Chicago's most crucial reinvention, a tragedy that unleashed the phoenix of this great city's vitality and spirit. Open letter to Redmoon: What to get right next time 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

David Cronenberg brings his own brand of formal rigor to Bruce Wagner’s unholy mess of a screenplay, a survey of Hollywood depravity wrapped around a ghoulish family tragedy. A Brief Look at 10 New York Film Festival Features 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

There is a haggard intensity about his straggle-bearded features that tell you, from the first second when you see him uneasily prowling the London bookshop, that he is a man marked for tragedy. Peter and Alice – review 2013-03-25T23:00:01Z

Perhaps Clear Blue Tuesday really can offer a thoughtful meditation on the grieving process in the wake of a shared tragedy. At last, the 9/11 musical 2010-09-08T07:54:00Z

For Trent, it was a terrible sports accident; for Fallon, a mysterious long-ago tragedy. Best young adult and children’s books for July 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s like an infestation, and I’m writing about the general situation, not just about this bombing in Boston, but what we’re going through with all of these tragedies – shootings and so on and so forth.” ArtsBeat: Neil Diamond to Donate ‘Sweet Caroline’ Royalties to Boston Bombing Charity 2013-04-25T15:13:09Z

The film follows one family searching for answers in the aftermath of a private tragedy. Sneak Godzilla footage shown in UK 2014-02-28T17:42:56Z

An old aristocratic order, at once morally flexible and rigidly traditional, is giving way to something new, and the change is bittersweet, containing both progress and tragedy. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

As a result, his real story remains only half-told: the tragedy of a man possessed by certainty. The Professor of Truth by James Robertson – review 2013-06-08T14:00:01Z

And so this Othello implodes, with an accessible completeness, in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s latest mounting of Shakespeare’s most breathtakingly well-plotted tragedy. An ‘Othello’ of psychological realism 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Imagine Arthur Miller’s American tragedy “Death of a Salesman” as a visual-aural tone poem, delivered from the afterlife. ‘Salesman is Dead and Gone’ follows Willy Loman to the grave 2013-12-16T19:36:45Z

I've previously described this show as a tragedy that likes to hide from time to time inside of a clown suit. When it comes "Better Call Saul," we should be in no hurry for it to end 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Though Still is legally forbidden to comment on the Love Parade tragedy, he can talk generally about his team's extensive database of crushes going back to 1902. Danger in numbers ? can mega-gigs ever truly be safe? 2011-07-20T20:31:00Z

Throughout the season, she has flash memories of a tragedy, mysterious but easy enough to figure out, involving a former friend and business partner. Review: ‘Fleabag,’ Biting, Bitter and Pushing Boundaries 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

More complex forms of comedy and tragedy derived from Greece. Review: The Face of Captive Greece in Rome 2010-08-13T15:41:00Z

A recent series of tragedies, though, has shocked the national conscience and spurred the search for solutions. In Australia, Reality TV Tackles Immigration 2011-06-21T17:18:17Z

Set in 1948, the year that Israel declared independence, spurring a war that would result in the upheaval of Palestinian society, “Farha” depicts a relatively small-scale tragedy considering the scope of the violence. ‘Farha’ Review: A Most Brutal Coming-of-Age Story 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The elements in this case of triumph, tragedy, and hubris, of bravery and cowardice, all wrapped up in one brief moment. Titanic's legacy: A fascination with disasters 2012-03-31T22:31:05Z

Increasing the quantity of the festival’s offerings and extending its length have become ends in themselves, and it will be no tragedy for Salzburg to do less if it can do better. Alexander Pereira Leaves Austrian Festival for La Scala 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

“Jennifer is heartbroken that such a senseless tragedy occurred. Her thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families,” the singer’s representatives said in a statement on Tuesday. Jason Aldean, Jennifer Lopez cancel shows after Las Vegas shooting 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

But then this conflict emerges as tragedy, mystery and pure strangeness as Gretta, Gabriel's wife, makes it clear that she belonged to that older world in a way that she will never belong to him. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

Both films show filmmakers interested in exploring the systemic conditions in America that give rise to the tragedy at the core of the Black experience. ‘Menace II Society’ at 30: A Bleak Nightmare Then, a Milestone Now 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

The season opens with a wordless prologue, a mood-setting vignette of tragedy and compassion, like something from “2001” or “The Tree of Life.” Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Starts Over Beautifully in Season 2 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

“I couldn’t get the words out of my mouth,” Gwen says, recalling the tragedy. America’s heavyweight hope 2012-07-15T16:00:00Z

“You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure,” he said in an interview with RadioTimes.com. "Sherlock" Fans Can Expect Tragedy in Season 4 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

It is a delicate, evocative version, told by characters who remember — or refuse to remember — the story even as it happens, as if the tragedy was bound to happen over and over again. Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

There were no reversals or problems or tragedies in the tiny interval between obscurity and mega-fame: none visible, anyway. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never 2011-02-17T22:48:00Z

It wasn’t the best example to use, because it prompted Mr. Biden to describe his own tragedy, when his wife and young daughter were killed in a car crash. The Tv Watch: Biden Takes off Gloves in Vice Presidential Debate 2012-10-12T05:09:03Z

Ironbound,” another New York premiere, is a tragedy about a Polish maid living in the United States. Women's Project Will Present 2015-16 Season in a New Home 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Actress Early narrates this thriller about a lawyer whose family was subjected to a terrible act of violence, and who witnesses a tragedy that brings bad memories flooding back. Hear Hear! Audiobooks that are not to be missed 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Sci-fi film "Arrival" and fashion designer Tom Ford's drama "Nocturnal Animals" each received nine nominations, while "Manchester by the Sea", about a family dealing with tragedy, got six. Musical 'La La Land' leads nominations for Britain's BAFTA awards 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

“Nobody’s Fool” demonstrated the full range of Russo’s humor and his ear for the baseline tragedy that runs through these working-class lives. ‘Everybody’s Fool’ by Richard Russo: A wry, bittersweet sequel to ‘Nobody’s Fool’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

“My heart is saddened by it. I’m reminded of the way in which tragedy and joy interweave through my life and many other lives every single day,” he said. Lin-Manuel Miranda heads into big night with heavy heart 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Du Bois wrote about St. Louis, a city that “sprawls where mighty rivers meet,” and offered an autopsy of a tragedy. Rivers Merge in St. Louis. So Do Racism, Violence and Exclusion. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

It seems that you gravitate towards these parts and stories that have am edge of comedy that is right on the precipice of tragedy and sadness. Get to know Griffin Gluck, your next new favorite boy next door with a dark side 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

Her poems are often breathtaking, sometimes sprawling, and her collection roams from Tucson to France among tragedies averted or narrowly survived. Four New Poetry Collections Confront Despair With Wonder 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

The Japanese refused to acknowledge the massacre officially, while the Chinese, anxious to maintain relations with Japan, did not press the case, a tragedy twice over for the massacre’s victims. | 'City of Life and Death': A Tale of Nanjing Atrocities That Spares No Brutal Detail 2011-05-10T22:03:01Z

He loved a woman once, but tragedy intervened, and since then each new award and commendation only makes Dorrigo feel undeserving and fraudulent. Review: ‘The Narrow Road in the Deep North,’ by Richard Flanagan

Burnside is powerful at it, and yet the reader feels the whole time that they too might have missed the whispered real story, and that they are just eavesdroppers on an unmentionable tragedy elsewhere. Something Like Happy by John Burnside - review 2013-01-19T09:30:01Z

So it seems appropriate that Shakespeare’s tragedy of war, politics and mass appeal in ancient Rome is being taken to the streets in this summer of a presidential election year. The Week Ahead: July 29 — Aug. 4 2012-07-30T13:57:52Z

In Japan, they emerge from these tragedies in a very noble, beautiful way. With a 7-Hour Saga, Robert Lepage Returns to Safer Ground 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

But I wasn't expecting the tragedy, and the finality, of what we saw last night: a corpse, hanging from the door of his tidy office, where a tea set sat just underneath the Mets banner. Mad Men Monday: A sad farewell 2012-06-04T16:20:06Z

But the book did not simply spring from the chaos of wartime tragedy to become a staple of world literature. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

Living for years with his guilt, he becomes a symbol of official Japan’s exploitation of the national tragedy. Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese Cartoonist of Dark Stories, Is Dead at 79 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

However, “As time passed, it became OK to find humor in the tragedy, increasing the humor perceived in the tweets to a peak point on Dec. 5.” Psychology helps explains why Louis C.K. is so funny 2013-12-18T13:15:00Z

Rory Kennedy thought she already knew something of the Vietnam War, of its tragedy and lingering scars on America and the Vietnamese. Rory Kennedy recounts the 1975 fall of Saigon in new film 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

If today's young people seem cynical, even put off by the traditionally patriotic displays of the 20th anniversary of this national tragedy, consider the unique, generational circumstances in which they've come of age. How 9/11 helped define this generation’s new brand of patriotism 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

By contrast, there’s no tragedy in “Sully,” just sighs of relief, probing questions and an outwardly uncomplicated hero whose extraordinariness is so deeply imbued that it is finally the most ordinary thing about him. Review: Sully Landed the Plane. Then He Had to Endure the Spotlight. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

It's like a Wailing Wall for amorous pilgrims who forget that Shakespeare's fictional lovers were doomed to tragedy. 'Letters to Juliet': Lovely leading ladies and one miscast Romeo 2010-05-14T00:01:00Z

By that point, the quips came across as just as unfunny as they did the week of the tragedy. Psychology helps explains why Louis C.K. is so funny 2013-12-18T13:15:00Z

It’s easy to spot the clues in the script, by its stars Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn: the small indiscretions that anticipate bigger ones, the mysterious family tragedies with questionable veracity, the warnings of death. | 'Any Night': When Sleep Opens the Door to the Dark Side 2011-06-10T22:46:24Z

She’s an all-out belter, an unapologetic admirer of Janis Joplin’s most heated moments; anything less than tragedy or fury leaves her sounding overwrought. New Music: Career In Motion Discovers A Perch 2011-07-25T21:45:24Z

The festival paid homage to Intiman's roots as a classical theater with an archetypal romantic tragedy that can be fresh or staid, convincing or pro forma in production. Intiman's 2012 revival season: the pluses and the minuses 2012-08-17T16:43:32Z

His 2014 feature “The Missing Picture” grappled with his family tragedy and depicted its personages, including his mother and father, in the form of artful clay figurines. ‘Graves Without a Name’ Review: An Impossible Quest in Cambodia 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The tragedy is not what Benjamin Britten died of but that he died as he was beginning an extraordinary period of creativity and vitality.' Yes, the evidence does show that Benjamin Britten died from syphilis 2013-01-30T08:00:18Z

Are these bleak portraits of hope-starved lives meant to be farce or tragedy? | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z

Here, in this good neighborhood, it is not a tragedy that violence happens to black men, but rather, that it can happen to one of the good ones. When You Hate Your Neighbor, and Then Your Kids Start Dating 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

This is a tragedy served up as corrosive comedy. At the end, the Bayou residents get their children returned, sedated and agree that they prefer them this way. The Animals and Children Took to the Streets ? review 2010-12-17T21:30:09Z

He had undergone a kind of reverse enlightenment, from the purified life of the mind to a realization of the material tragedy of present-day India. A Pakistani-Indian Journalist Attempts to Rediscover His Roots 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

There was war and death and crime and tragedy. The ‘Downton Abbey’ cast wants to take you back to a more innocent time — 2012 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

This painting by Picasso is so human in its tragedy, so full in its view of life, that it made the Bacons seem indulgent and morbid. Picasso in Britain and Lucian Freud ? the week in art 2012-02-10T17:29:24Z

The series, which is showered with Emmy nominations each season — last year, it received 12, including for outstanding drama series, is often praised for top-notch writing that masterfully mixes high drama, tragedy and broad comedy. Change is in the air at 'Downton Abbey' 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

"He overreacted, and it's just a horrible tragedy." Fla. ex-coach gets jail time in Vegas casino death 2013-02-14T20:04:11Z

“I didn’t want to pull them back into the heart of that tragedy,” he said. The Twin Towers After September 11: A Tribute or a Painful Reminder? 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Confined to a creepy, windswept New England loony bin by her nasty stepfather in the wake of family tragedies, Babydoll slips through a series of mental trapdoors. | 'Sucker Punch': Well, Here They Are, Wherever This May Be 2011-03-24T21:53:04Z

Q. Are these two notions compatible: tragedy and beauty? Dialogues on the Arts 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

“It was a tragic time, but I don’t want people to think the book is a tragedy,” Blume said. Starring Judy Blume as Herself 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Lee chronicled the innocence and tragedy of her childhood in the classic novel, shinning a light on the Jim Crow-era South as well as injustice in a small Alabama town. Jeff Daniels: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is role of a lifetime 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

This strangely affecting film tells the story of two sad lives lived out on a run-down estate in Bradford, one tragic, the other touched with tragedy but not yet over. The Arbor ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z

And before tragedy strikes, there is a moving scene of Emily and Louis talking about their mutual appreciation for each other. Benedict Cumberbatch charms as a cat-loving genius in Amazon's showy "Electrical Life of Louis Wain" 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

“Care for Me” is a triumph in the shadow of a tragedy whose cost will always be too high. Eight Albums That Defined 2018 for Me 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

That encounter inspired Leslie to devote herself to charitable work in hopes of preventing future tragedy. Batman Is Turning 80. Fighting Crime Must Pay. 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Then you don't hear any of it because the sound fades away, leaving nothing but Mercedes, her athleticism and strength spotlighted as the only barriers between height and breakneck tragedy. Eyes up here: In "P-Valley," the strippers and their grueling labor are the headliners, not men 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z

His own family story is tinged by an almost mythological level of tragedy. A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z

“With two investigations ongoing, it is not appropriate for our member Walter Bobbie or for S.D.C. to discuss the tragedy,” the statement said. A Rough Rehearsal, a Suicide and a Broadway Show in Turmoil 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

As the exhibition title suggests, the darkness didn’t end with the Civil War; there were new chapters, new anxieties, new conflicts and new tragedies as the reunited Republic moved west. Bronze will be in fashion this fall at the National Gallery of Art 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

We, the viewers, are promoted up the hierarchy of knowledge to a place just below the writer – a position identical to that of the audience in classical tragedy and comedy. The genius of Breaking Bad 2013-01-04T23:00:08Z

As matters moral are endlessly chewed over in Greek tragedy, so Hero’s decision is examined from all sides, with slightly enervating results. ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Indeed, some of his books, he would argue, “are tragedy or at least aim at it.” ‘It’s All One Case’ is a revealing look at detective master Ross Macdonald 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The accident was the first deadly incident since the tragedy in 2000, when nine people died and 43 were injured after an out-of-control crowd pushed forward during a Pearl Jam gig. Woman dies in accident at Roskilde Festival 2011-07-03T17:16:04Z

For those of us suffering the gravity of the pandemic and the tragedy of George Floyd, this year’s brightest moment was the election. Magic Shows and Inner Beauty 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Their stories range from the ugly New York draft riots of 1863, when innocent black people were scapegoated and slain, to other tragedies, to the many acts of wartime heroism and sacrifice. D.C. area monuments honor the Irish and others with ties to Emerald Isle 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The tragedy in El Paso was one of two mass shootings in the United States that occurred hours apart in Texas and Dayton, Ohio, taking the lives of 31 people in total. ‘Amor Eterno’ Rings Out at Mass Shooting Vigils 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

So there is that sense of living with the horror and grief and tragedy of suicide. Q&A: Twenty Years Later, Trying to Unravel a Suicide 2011-02-17T10:15:00Z

At its heart it is a paternal tragedy — a father who tries to protect his children from the dangerous, criminal world he’s helped build, only to fail, over and over again. Salman Rushdie on the opulent realism of his new novel, 'The Golden House' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

By seeing this tragedy through Kenny’s eyes, we’re able to see how the character responds to the situation, which in turn helps a young reader form a response. I Dreaded Black History Month, Until a Novelist Opened My Eyes 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Fay Godwin's Remains Of Elmet, commissioned to accompany Ted Hughes's poems of the same name, view the brooding moorlands of the Calder Valley into stark monochrome tragedies. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

But by transporting Donizetti’s bel canto tragedy to present-day America for his Met debut, Stone is breaking new ground. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Now estranged from his mother with a son of his own, he seems uninterested in opening old wounds, including the tragedy that severed their relationship. 'Aloft' can't land a solid story, with crucial pieces missing 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to Hamlet Claudius, Gertrude and Hamlet’s father are caught up in a romantic triangle in Michael Shaw Fisher’s new musical inspired by Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 25-Oct. 2: 'Phoebe Zeitgeist Returns to Earth' and more 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

As I suggested in an essay earlier this year, coronavirus art stands apart from dramatizations of most tragedies in that the burden belongs to everyone. South Park pandemic special: a biting and surprisingly affecting satire 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

The movie’s giddy first half zips along more smoothly than the second, which sputters when the story takes a short, awkwardly managed detour into tragedy. Review: ‘Trainwreck’ Delivers the Full Amy Schumer Experience 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

He feints between first and second person, he moonwalks into history, he spins from comedy to tragedy to editorial in a single paragraph. The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

"Hamlet": Rauch's distinctly nontraditional staging of the quintessential revenge tragedy is not far out, by most standards — but raised hackles with some patrons. Oregon Shakespeare Festival celebrates 75th year with intriguing interpretations 2010-06-25T21:24:00Z

About three months into the program, tragedy struck the family again. Her two sons had a rare disease. After their deaths, she left the Air Force to become a nurse. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

A man who could turn every tragedy into a joke, Edwards even wrote his own obituary — 46 years ago in A Shot in the Dark, in an exchange between Elke Sommer and the good Inspector. 10 Pink Panthers at Tiffany's: Farewell to Blake Edwards 2010-12-19T14:10:00Z

It was considered enough to express the tragedy of emigrations, of displaced people and their long march. Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z

But despite its lighthearted and inspiring storyline, the show left behind a dark legacy, marred by both scandal and tragedy. “The Price of Glee”: The 10 most shocking takeaways from the docuseries about Fox's musical hit 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

The characters ruminate on the major regrets and secret tragedies of their pasts — memories of abuse and poor decisions that became the building blocks for their lives. Three Canadian Novels Test the Bonds — and Boundaries — of Family 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

The cruelty and tragedy of the Dragos lies in their denial of this fact. ‘Creed II’ Review: A Poignant Boxing Movie Blends Old and New 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

You pull so strongly for her to survive the first phase of her life, you almost forget the tragedy on the horizon. These Debuts Arrived at a Tough Time. They Deserve Your Attention. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

It would mean the zombie shoots really are fundamentally just gun culture Comic-Con, and probably no more or less encouraging of tragedy than anything else. Gun owners are obsessed with zombies 2013-02-21T17:28:00Z

But after losing her money in the Ponzi scheme, it becomes clear to her just how fickle her connections and friendships are in the face of tragedy. ‘The Good Fight’ Recap: On the Other Side 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Our main business is in iot tech for safer construction sites, but as we saw more and more terrible tragedies unfold, we felt compelled to do something. How to Stay Safe at the Airport 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

By focusing on this one community, featured in The New York Times in April, the performances and the pieces conveyed with powerful directness and immediacy the tragedy that shook the entire country. Music Review: ?Resonances of the Kugo,? Part of Music From Japan at Merkin 2012-02-19T19:53:15Z

But bending real tragedy into thin uplift is. Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

The museum helps visitors connect by offering a raw look at Marines’ stories, sacrifices, disappointments, tragedies and triumphs. In the Marines, a Connection Between Art and Combat 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

That prop remains onstage throughout the opera, reminding the audience of the forthcoming tragedy and the potential cost of fame. A Kurt Cobain Opera Examines the Myth, Not the Man 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

That double message — the innocent first take followed by the bitter second one — is a basic emotional mechanism of this genera of tragedy images. Perspective | We used to think photos like this could change the world. What needs to change is who we are. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

After years of tragedy, upheaval and cataclysm, Winterfell is now secure and on the way to recovery in the capable hands of the new Queen in the North, Sansa Stark. Who Is Sophie Turner Without Sansa Stark? We’re About to Find Out 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

"The film to me is a tragedy," director Chandor said, featuring people "realizing that they've wasted a little bit of their lives, or a lot of their lives." Spacey takes turn as banker in Berlin fest film 2011-02-11T13:10:31Z

Unless we are performers in a tragedy, we put on some glitter and we sail out into the night, toward the theater district. An Acclaimed Playwright on Masks and the Return to the Stage 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Romeo & Juliet The Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival concludes with a return engagement of Independent Shakespeare Co.'s recent production of the Bard's romantic tragedy. L.A. theater openings, Aug. 30-Sept. 6: 'Romeo & Juliet' and more 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

After a tragedy “Parked” collapses into sentimentality that not even an actor of Mr. Meaney’s dignity and restraint can redeem from mawkishness. Movie Review: Colm Meaney in ‘Parked,’ About Ireland’s Homeless 2012-11-30T00:25:06Z

Federico Garcia Lorca’s tragedy of a childless woman in rural Spain receives a modern retelling via the Australian writer and director Simon Stone. 17 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Even the most sunny-sided among us lately can't help feeling the weight of so many recent tragedies, disappointments and just plain ugliness. Anne Lamott can still find hope, even though “the nation has hit a tragic bottom” 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

From an artistic standpoint, it’s best to let tragedy cool before gulping it down and spitting it back into everyone’s faces. Someday, We’ll Look Back on All of This and Write a Novel 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Sharrock's production brilliantly makes Cause Célèbre into the tragedy of two women. Cause C?l?bre; Rocket to the Moon ? review 2011-04-02T23:09:47Z

Mr. Kosoko, 37, did not anticipate the moment we’re now in, but he is acutely familiar with making art in times of tragedy and mourning. This Artist Proposes a Community Space ‘to Dream, to Imagine’ 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

As parents of these children, we are often visible only after a tragedy. Motherlode: A Son's Demons 2011-08-01T18:26:40Z

At heart it’s a provocative and empathetic meditation on cinema, human tragedy, collective memory and how we each relate to grief, pain and loss. Casting JonBenét director on our obsession with the murder of a child pageant queen 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

From my days as my high school’s valedictorian through the completion of a Ph.D. thesis on contemporary productions of Greek tragedy in Latin America, I’ve always gotten a thrill from knowing the right answer. Conservatives killed the liberal arts 2012-09-14T23:08:00Z

Mr. Rogers, when he was a little boy, used to ask his mother where God was in tragedies. Anne Lamott: “The grace of this world is hilariously huge” 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

I was going to say the title was a snappy six-word summation of the tragedy of the human condition. Andrew Weatherall: 'Never take the Guardian on to a building site' 2013-02-06T16:50:00Z

Dudamel went for dark textures and illuminating details, moving inexorably forward as if this were a Greek tragedy. Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic focus on Apollo 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

Although not a perfect film, "A World Not Ours" does turn faceless statistics about the plight of refugees into an immediate human tragedy. Ugly realities of refugee camp fills 'A World Not Ours' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

History repeats itself, but always as tragedy in Wallander, never as farce. TV review: Wallander; Shakespeare Uncovered; Henry IV Part 1 2012-07-08T21:35:01Z

“Anytime a tragedy happens, the community wonders, ‘How did we not connect the dots? Can we use big data to fight child abuse? The answer is complicated 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

It’s a sad echo of a previous tragedy, when three years ago, the Enquirer splashed a casket image of “Whitney: The Last Photo” on its cover. The grim spectacle of celebrity death photos: How to gain a tabloid cover and lose your humanity in one easy step 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

This less than illuminating explanation sets in motion the tragedy that unfolds — or rather one of them. Review: ‘Spring Awakening’ by Deaf West Theater Brings a New Sensation to Broadway 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

The warnings were coupled with tales of tragedy. Ignoring the Warnings for a Honeymoon in Mexico 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Should the National Media Museum be shut down, this style of photography is a perfect metaphor for the tragedy of it. I found my inspiration in Bradford, but future students might not be so lucky 2013-06-07T16:50:50Z

At once tragedy and farce, it breathes new life into a story as old as civilization. ‘A New Old Play’ Review: Even the Clown Show Must Go On 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

It pained him that it took such a terrible tragedy, but for the first time in recent memory he’d gotten some tentative RSVPs. For years, he tried to get other gay people to the gun range. Would they come now? 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Marc Palmieri’s “The Groundling,” is half comedy and half tragedy, half verse and half prose. Review: ‘The Groundling,’ a Backstage Farce With Heartbreak 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

"It appears the major tragedy in your life was when you were on the Oregon tennis team and you lost a few matches," the judge said. Disgraced Seattle gallery owner sentenced to prison in art theft case 2011-02-11T23:30:07Z

On their face, the two are separate tragedies. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

"I took this photo last week and I thought I would share. I don’t mean to offend you or anyone what’s happening at the Bahamas is a tragedy im spreading awareness." Bikini pics in Hurricane Dorian posts? Instagram influencers criticized for tone-deaf 'self-promotion' 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Now she shows herself as she is – a survivor of violence and tragedy, and an immensely powerful, talented woman. 'I hid my scars for years ... I thought I was only good for horror movies' 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

This show hasn’t gotten great reviews so far, but if it can make that suffering real — if it can humanize the origins of this monstrous tragedy — it will have succeeded at something worthy. ‘Law & Order True Crime’ Episode 2: No Surprises 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Given that his happiness is built on the ruins of the Drewe family — a tragedy that has never particularly interested Baron Fellowes — I couldn’t quite bring my hands together. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 4: The Engine Purrs 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

The bigger artistic issue, however, is the reduction of this network of stories to a single tragedy. 'different words' reveals promising playwright in Kimber Lee 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

But whatever human tragedy comes on after that, I’ll think, No, I gave it all to the dog who fell through the ice.” Judd Apatow Stands Up 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Apparently this is a byproduct of some recent tragedy: last year a former romantic partner committed suicide, and the news landed hard, though he and Ms. Stern hadn’t been in touch for some time. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z

A white man from California, he was on his honeymoon when he received news of the tragedy. Emanuel: a poignant documentary on the Charleston church massacre 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

And then tragedy struck: Bausch, at 68, died in June of that year, five days after receiving a cancer diagnosis. Wim Wenders: U2 concert film inspired 'Pina' in 3D 2012-02-12T13:38:43Z

At least in “Macbeth” the miscreants pay for their actions, rather floridly so in a gore-drenched take on Shakespeare’s tragedy from the director Lucy Bailey that kicks off the summer season at Shakespeare’s Globe. Review: Satiric Assault on the Origins of Scabrous Male Bonding in Politics 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z

James suddenly became an outcast because he went too far, because it was too soon, because joking about tragedy was too much. Daniel Tosh and rape jokes: Still not funny 2012-07-12T11:26:00Z

My students and I puzzle over what seem like basic questions of style and genre: comedy or tragedy? What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Well, let me just say that despite Ijames’s antic fabrications, he is ultimately tethered to the tragedy that is America. Review: Martha Washington, Hilariously Haunted by Her Slaves 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

She faults inadequate security, and places the tragedy in the context of global anti-American demonstrations that followed the release of an American-made video that denigrated Islam. Hillary Clinton's 'Hard Choices' makes for compelling reading 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

He’s masculinity incarnate, in all its confidence and anxieties — direct, sonorous and conversational even as the tragedy builds. A Penetrating Cry in the Dark at the Prototype Festival 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

They encounter disappointments, flirt with tragedy, but they’re imbued with desperate hope. Album review: Craig Finn, 'Clear Heart Full Eyes' 2012-01-20T05:03:00Z

Many more people died in this tragedy than those who lost their lives when the real Titanic went down. ‘The Sea Wolf’ and ‘Titanic’: Fascism on the High Seas 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

"I'm a $65 million circus tragedy," the Green Goblin says at one point in the show. Bono's "Spider-Man" musical still weak, critics say 2011-06-15T22:06:24Z

Characters are pursued by shadowy bureaucracies, tragedy is imminent, redemption fleeting; but there is rapture, too, and compassion and the consolations of storytelling. A Widower and His Son Find Kindness and Cruelty on the Road in ‘Census’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

But when Kidane unwisely takes a gun with him to argue with a neighbour, tragedy follows. Oscars 2015: The foreign language contenders 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Now, in the aftermath of the deadly tragedy, Scott's crisis communications team is scrambling. We can’t help but be cynical about Travis Scott’s post-Astroworld BetterHelp partnership 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Their plays are plot-driven family melodramas about delusions and affairs of the heart, tragedies played at such a fever pitch that they spill into farce. The Amoralists Ready a New Play, ?Amerissiah? 2010-06-05T02:03:00Z

Her gripping narrative captures not only the facts of the situation, but the thoughts of her witnesses and the feverishly unfolding disorder, confusion and tragedy. Looking Back at a Hospital Devastated by Hurricane Katrina 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

I am certain, however, that the assassination of Caesar isn’t the culmination of the tragedy but a turning point in a drama questioning whether violence is ever an appropriate political tool. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

For Ms. Moore, her son’s death was perhaps the lowest moment in a life of personal tragedies. Mary Tyler Moore, TV star who became symbol of women’s liberation, dies at 80 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

But even if tragedy strikes and Saturday really is the last time Wagner gets to perform, at least we'll have Lorb Shack. The wonder of Wagner 2010-10-18T12:58:00Z

Despite the grim subject matter, the film does not wallow in tragedy. ‘History Is Everything’: Making a Film About Black Maternal Mortality 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

Fifty years, in the scope of theatrical history, is an eye blink — “Cabaret” is a baby next to, say, Greek tragedy — but the pace of progress has sped up since 1966. 50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

But conspiracy theories are not the answer to making sense of tragedy. Nipsey Hussle's remarkable legacy: Acclaimed rapper never stopped giving back to South L.A. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

In the title story, a rabbit-shaped lamp unleashes a tragedy for anyone who touches it; in another, a pregnant woman is told she must find a father for her unborn baby or face terrible consequences. 8 Books Coming in December 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

It factors into tragedies, verse dramas, even musical comedies like “Call Me Madam,” with its jolly number “Can You Use Any Money Today?” From ‘Camp David’ to ‘Oslo,’ Forging Drama from Diplomacy 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

The act of one person writing another person's name was important to Lahti, who says that it was "an attempt to connect people, more literally, to the tragedy." Mercer Island artist Ingrid Lahti put 9/11 feelings into form 2011-09-07T21:42:04Z

After Mr. Baldwin gave an interview with ABC News in which he fiercely denied responsibility for the tragedy, Mr. Hutchins responded with his own television interview. Alec Baldwin Charges Complicate Efforts to Finish Troubled ‘Rust’ Movie 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

Then in January 2021, she went to work on “Station Eleven,” where each day demanded a thinly veiled re-enactment of tragedies of the previous year. Mackenzie Davis Catches Fire 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

A night of talking nostalgia with a childhood buddy quickly turns into tragedy, after a traffic stop results in police shooting an unarmed Khalil, with Starr as the only witness. Adriana E. Ramirez on why readers love 'The Hate U Give' 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

“It’s a tragedy. But my question is, is it a tragic comedy or is it a tragic drama?” In the New Hollywood, Sumner Redstone Is a Man Out of Time 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

All of that, added to the true life tragedies, and it just seemed unwise — some even called it irresponsible — to back such a smirky show. What’s your damage? Why a "Heathers" TV adaptation hasn’t worked — yet 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

ABC also weighed in on the fictional tragedy:  Shonda Rhimes speaks out on 'Grey's Anatomy' shocker 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The superhero is the unexceptional man made exceptional by tragedy – Batman, Iron Man, Hulk, Magneto – and/or by the application of powers: Batman, Iron Man and Hulk again, plus Captain America and the X-Men. 'These men are bad role models': will my son get over his superhero obsession? 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

The potential here is still untapped and hasn't been written, so it doesn't have to be the same old tiresome tragedy. Carolyn See's California, as told to Barbara Isenberg 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

"It really kind of intensified my whole emotional response to the whole tragedy," Kovach said. Colo. victims tweets give insight on life, death 2012-07-22T20:01:04Z

He later called it “insensitive to students who lost friends in a terrible tragedy”. Dinesh D'Souza: Trump pardons far-right film-maker who pleaded guilty 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

"There was a lot of suspense and excitement, building of tension and explosive victory or black tragedy." Warp speed, Mr. Sulu! George Takei is a guest at Emerald City Comicon 2012-03-28T23:11:04Z

Both are haunted by a tragedy: Years earlier, their teenage sister was kidnapped and murdered, and each of the brothers has always held himself responsible. New in crime fiction: Cleverly, Estleman, Koryta, Penny 2012-08-08T19:47:07Z

And the other thing is, they all want to do a tragedy. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z

"As a sovereign nation is invaded and fights for its very existence, we see the tragedy of sin and darkness play itself out in our fallen world." First Sunday of Lent: Reflect, repent as 'sin and darkness' show themselves in Russia-Ukraine war 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

It's not that they haven't been transfigured by tragedy; people die, children are abandoned, there is poverty and betrayal and collapse. In Amy Bloom's 'Lucky Us,' sisters remain plucky in face of tragedy 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

I understand the choice; it suggests the hard-won self-restraint and self-denial of a girl who grew up amid privation and tragedy. Theater Review | 'The Miracle Worker': Taming a Child by Setting Her Free 2010-03-04T03:22:00Z

They also like hanging out at sites of violent catastrophe and tragedy. "It Lives Inside": When a horror movie defangs its demon with poor metaphors 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

One of his most beautiful performances will forever be linked with a tragedy that came 30 years later, one for which he was not present. At 73, ‘Man on Wire’ Philippe Petit still dances high above the void 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Because these images have already broken through our own resistance to seeing pain and tragedy in the world, we imagine that they must break through the collective conscience as powerful political icons. Perspective | We used to think photos like this could change the world. What needs to change is who we are. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

While Lightning said she was “a little bit shocked” when she saw a Native American tragedy mirrored in a story but without Native American characters, her years working in Los Angeles meant she wasn’t surprised. ‘Big Sky’ producers recognize Native American criticism 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

The main feature is “Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale,” a riveting and violent Southern tragedy told entirely through shadow puppetry. Art Review: Rising and Regrouping on Lower East Side 2011-04-22T03:31:42Z

The tragedy of the so-called "Busby Babes", led by their charismatic manager Matt Busby – badly wounded in the crash – hit the city hard. Days in the Life at the Guardian: 7 February 1958 2011-07-12T16:13:43Z

“Deus ex machina” is the phrase applied to the climactic moment in a classical Greek tragedy when gods would descend from the skies to resolve all knotty human problems. Ex Machina: Can Two Wily Men Outsmart a Gorgeous Robot? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

The feat of the show is the effortless way it blends the dark and the light, persuading you that narratives with comedy and tragedy side by side are the best reflection of the real world. Louis C.K. and Tig Notaro, Sparring on the Battlefield of Art 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

It is my hope that by standing upright the fallen steel columns, I may evoke a quiet yet strong message of transcendence, and the role of education in the growth of hope from tragedy. London 9/11 sculpture shelved after opposition from UK victims' families 2011-03-08T21:26:06Z

Still, diversions keep coming, even when the tragedy reaches its climax. Review: ‘Othello’ Goes Hip-Hop. There’s Humor, Too. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

All that remained of a national tragedy were the terrible craters left by the B52s and the rusting military hardware on the beach at Da Nang. Vietnam road 2010-07-10T23:01:00Z

Whether the viewer is satisfied by that vision or considers it to be a tragedy doesn’t seem to be Tom McCarthy’s concern. Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes, sleazy and malevolent, still haunts us in "The Loudest Voice" 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z

It’s an exquisite tragedy — that every time you see theater, you receive something new, but that gift is immediately chased by a loss. Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

Here, he crams an entire global tragedy into 140 fraught minutes. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

“Bluebird” has inevitably been compared to Atom Egoyan’s 1997 masterpiece, “The Sweet Hereafter,” which explored the aftermath of a school bus tragedy. Review: In ‘Bluebird,’ Momentary Distraction Sets Off a Chain of Misery 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The judges praised his verse for bearing “witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age of danger and uncertainty.” What you need to know about Peter Balakian, the new Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

"We extend our prayers and deepest sympathies to the victims, their loved ones and those affected by this tragedy." Shooting at Colo. theater shocks movie industry 2012-07-20T18:04:08Z

When tragedy came in Keepers it was handled gently, the actors even finding moments of pantomime humour in death. Edinburgh fringe theatre 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

That universal distinctiveness is what’s meant by the saw “character is fate,” and it’s the source of both the deepest comedy and tragedy. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Blending sweetness and darkness, tragedy and domestic comedy, abstract art-school cinema and documentary realism, "Putty Hill" is a fresh, vital and emotionally engaging indie breakthrough. "Putty Hill": An off-the-radar indie breakthrough 2011-02-18T21:20:00Z

It is now popular with tourists interested in more than just Victorian tragedies about fallen women and men who can’t rise above their station. On England’s Coast, Thomas Hardy Made His World 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Life is a tragedy because it’s so farcical. | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z

The murder of George Floyd last Memorial Day left a considerably vaster wake; tragedy didn’t simply grip the nation, it shook the country, hard. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

“There are also fathers, but they are really boring unless some tragedy happens to the father.” Jon Polito, character actor in ‘Homicide,’ Coen brothers films, dies at 65 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

The movie, messily constructed, seems more fascinated with the tragedy of these two women’s parallel struggles than it does with the characters themselves. Review: ‘Rosa Chumbe’ Offers Little Hope for Redemption 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The tragedy at the Sikh Temple that happened last summer in Wisconsin is not a surprise to me. My life in a turban 2012-09-11T00:00:00Z

To progressives, this must have seemed like tragedy masquerading as farce. First GOP debate was more like a reality TV show 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

In the show “30 Rock,” there was a running joke about tragedy. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

In "The Descendants," Clooney plays a successful real estate lawyer coping with tragedy and reconnecting with his two daughters while facing his past, his shortcomings as a father and a different future. Clooney charms Toronto playing a family man 2011-09-11T20:51:01Z

Two years ago, Brynn realized that dipping strawberries into chocolate and wrapping lollipops provided a powerful distraction from tragedy. This tween has a sweet job: Working in the family chocolate shop 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

“The Prince of Providence” is part comedy, part tragedy and full-on farce — just like the larger-than-life politician who put Rhode Island’s capital on the map, often for all the wrong reasons. Comedy or tragedy? Play tells infamous mayor’s story onstage 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

Shakespeare’s tragedy ends in a disgusting mess; Mac would think about who had to clean it up. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

It is an anthem of human tragedy, one of the most beautiful created in modern times. A dream of time gone by: How PBS's "Les Misérables" helps process the tragedy of the Notre Dame fire 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

There is one answer when the tragedy affects them directly; then it is not a question of whether, but of how. Motherlode: Talking to Kids About Divorce 2011-04-05T14:23:41Z

“Jennifer is heartbroken that such a senseless tragedy occurred. Her thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families,” the singer’s representatives said in a statement on Tuesday. Jason Aldean, Jennifer Lopez cancel shows after Las Vegas shooting 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Can a tragedy be recreated into artwork, or the poster image of a movement, or sold as a souvenir? 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

But something more “global” appears to be at work, and in any case he is distracted from his dreary rounds of diagnosis-seeking when a more urgent tragedy befalls the family. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z

The tragedy and senselessness of racism is felt throughout “Not Without Laughter,” and Hughes takes care to show how it manifests itself in ways small and large. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Her new novel, “Clap When You Land,” was inspired by that tragedy. Caught Between Worlds? For Elizabeth Acevedo, It’s a Familiar Feeling 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Shooter just exploits fears as old as the Kennedy assassination and as current as the latest reported tragedy to spin its wheels forward. USA Network Pulls 'Shooter'—But Would It Ever Have Been Appropriate? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

There are no great operatically scaled heroes; there is no huge tragedy. Music Review: ‘Doubt,’ Adaptation Performed by Minnesota Opera 2013-02-03T23:24:03Z

But, even as we sense that one of the characters in the story is facing what appears to be a tragedy, I think most readers must also feel swept up in the adventure. Poem of the week: Interstate by Anne-Marie Fyfe 2011-04-11T09:39:57Z

Despite its famed friendliness, Charleston has become the most recent site of a great national tragedy and intense civic debate. These Are the 10 Best Cities to Visit Around the World 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

This one image, then, seemed to encapsulate both the tragedy of climate change and the resilience of nature. Why the Polar Bear Is the Undisputed Image of Climate Change 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

“We no longer feel that ghetto tragedies can be overcome by pleas for tolerance and understanding.” ‘West Side Story’: How We Covered the Classic N.Y.C. Musical 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

"It's a huge tragedy; they are dying in my country. And in Mexico, nobody talks about it." CalArts' 'Shelter' gives voice to the Central American kids fleeing to the U.S. without their parents 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

As first reported by Deadline Hollywood, HBO is developing an untitled television pilot that would star Mr. Baldwin as a billionaire who becomes mayor of New York City after tragedy strikes the office’s previous occupant. Alec Baldwin Selected to Be Mayor of New York on HBO 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

In 1960, our reviewer wrote: “The sketches are written lightly, so that tragedy is understated and comedy is overstated, yet the ring of truth always prevails.” What to Read Before Heading to the Caribbean 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

“It didn’t change my view of the world or of my work, but it changed me, as all tragedy does,” he said. For Carl Andre, Less Is Still Less 2011-07-17T02:00:06Z

Macbeth Shakespeare’s tragedy of an ambitious Scottish warlord and his scheming wife. L.A. theater openings, June 19-26: 'Disgraced' and more 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

It does, subliminally, argue for more empathetic, difficult communication between parent and child, child and teacher, parent and teacher — before the next tragedy strikes. ‘Gidion’s Knot’ a tangle of confrontation, tragedy 2014-04-03T20:45:37Z

So in every tragedy, people search for a way to express that solidarity, and often do so via hashtags and image memes. Is posting support for Paris on Facebook narcissistic, or heartfelt? 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

The evil he does — ordering the slaughter of innocents and the death of his closest comrade — is horrific even by the standard of Shakespeare’s tragedies. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

What Scheer hopes he and Heggie have kept intact is the emotional — but not sentimental — story about artists who wrestle with love, tragedy and AIDS. 1st Stage’s new artistic director swings for fences with ‘Take Me Out’

It’s the stuff of tragedy, yet it would be a mistake to take any of the plot machinations—who is backstabbing whom, which corporate power play will win out—too seriously. Jesse Armstrong’s Savage Comedy in “Succession” Season 1 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

Taking Miller’s tragedy of the common man a step further, Nottage writes the tragedy of the community, an ensemble play without a protagonist. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The tragedy of the people doomed to think of themselves as white lies in their denial of these origins: they become incoherent because they can never stammer from whence they came. Review: ‘Roots,’ by Alex Haley 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

But shortly after the official victory parade ends, an ominous tragedy occurs: Two teenagers fall from gunshot wounds near the Kremlin. ‘One Night in Winter,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore

As part of her research, she and other board members toured museums devoted to large-scale tragedies, like the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, and the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. At Pulse Shooting Site, a Plan to Remember Renews Pain for Some 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

Raz said he did not talk about his loss for nearly 20 years, but now, for the show, he wanted to examine the impact of tragedy on a person’s judgment.  How the Netflix series ‘Fauda’ shows the human side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

The success of “Regards Croisés” is a little unlikely — it’s a comedy show in a nation weighed down by tragedy — and that says something about Haitian resilience. The TV Watch: ‘Regards Croisés’ Offers Haiti Needed Comic Relief on TV 2012-07-10T20:51:35Z

But please: We are in the midst of a horrifying pandemic, overflowing with both tragedy and fear. Style Invitational Week 1378: It’s (emergency) Parody Time 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

It is a movie whose themes of violence and loyalty were clearly influences on Francis Ford Coppola, but also had a distinctively patrician languor, and sense of high tragedy and anguish. Bernardo Bertolucci: the brilliant last emperor of highbrow cinema 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

The local crew, painfully familiar with the actual tragedy, began to keep their distance from Jones, particularly after the guns arrived on set. Caleb Landry Jones Can Do This 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

“We could not presume any on their part any knowledge of the tragedy or any familiarity with the conventions with which it is usually associated,” Evans wrote. Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z

“With shifting allegiances, disappearances, and sometimes tragedy,” Leong writes, “fatherhood in Star Wars is complicated.” Review | Graphic trivia about ‘Star Wars’ that only a Jedi Master would know 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

If we contemplate death before we actually face it, she proposes, we can perhaps mitigate its tragedies: “pain, denial, prolongation, loneliness.” ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

The Greek tragedies were the focus of her New York stage career as well. Irene Papas, Actress in ‘Zorba the Greek’ and Greek Tragedies, Dies at 96 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

And this is a crucial element in comprehending the extent of the tragedy in this case. Smart Watch: Salon's guide to TV this week 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

The tragedy is that there is a good movie to be made with the raw materials assembled here. Joker gets unearned GG nominations 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

It's one of the many original touches that enable Jatahy to reinvent this naturalistic tragedy for a new age. 'Julia' updates 1888 classic with passionate acting, stunning staging, modern observation 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

But this frolicsome tone seems a dubious tactic for “King Lear,” Shakespeare’s darkest and most corrosive tragedy. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

It is a tragedy no less raw in the retelling. Last night's TV 2011-04-11T08:33:13Z

There, an old man named Tanner moves from Georgia to live with his daughter in New York, where his blindness about race leads to tragedy. Happy birthday Flannery O'Connor, avatar of the Southern grotesque 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

“I appreciate that narrative about suffering, but it’s either the stereotypical, or the tragedy and pathos,” says Dwandalyn Reece, a curator for National Museum of African American History and Culture. The radical power of ordinary Black life 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Zealously researched and intellectually rangy, it reckons with tragedies both human and environmental. Review: In ‘Spill,’ an Oil Disaster Seems Too Big for the Stage 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

His tragedy, which his careful revisions and rationalisations cannot conceal, is that he became what he had despised – as Hazlitt put it, "a living and ignominious satire upon himself". Christopher Hitchens: from socialist to neocon 2013-01-18T13:01:01Z

They react to the tragedy in radically different ways. Nine of the best films for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:11Z

It was already his favorite of the Shakespeare tragedies, and it did not take much of a leap to envision the title role as a Trump precursor. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

In Episode 5, they exposed a tragedy related to the prosecution’s protection of Odell Hallmon, a violent convicted criminal who, in exchange for special treatment, testified that Flowers had confessed his guilt to him. Why “In the Dark” May Be the Best Podcast of the Year 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

“Why would anybody want to see seven Greek tragedies in one night?” Sean Graney?s ?These Seven Sicknesses,? Sophocles at Flea 2012-01-12T18:12:27Z

“That is the tragedy of this case,” the Mennonite financial expert said. A Pennsylvania dairy was built on Mennonites’ trust and money. Now they’re left holding the bag. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

Pam may be haunted by a tragedy from her past — it is what drives her to go up the mountain on a day when severe weather makes climbing risky. Naomi Watts survives "Infinite Storm," a harrowing mountain-climbing tale based on a true story 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Chance divorced the abusive husband, had a good run at state politics, but then suffered illness and family tragedy at a relatively young age. In a Time of Crisis, Her Voice Was the One That Galvanized Alaska 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Further tragedy followed in 1995 when Cheyenne, aged 25, took her own life by hanging herself. Marlon on Marlon… the Brando tapes 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Within a year, George Floyd has become an irrevocable symbol of tragedy, reckoning and reform. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Yet “Mrs. America” isn’t spun as a total tragedy. Review | ‘Mrs. America’ tells the story of the women’s movement from the dark side of the Force 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

“This tragedy happened because live bullets were delivered to the set and loaded into the gun,” the lawsuit said. Alec Baldwin Sues ‘Rust’ Armorer and Crew for Giving Him a Loaded Gun 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

As a scholar of human rights, I acknowledged that our sense of empathy for tragedy is always biased, always skewed to those that we hold close, to those with whom we identify. Why is it so threatening to say Muslim lives matter? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

The first single, “Be Mine!,” was built on a cello riff that raced like a heartbeat; it narrated the ecstatic tragedy of watching the person you love fall in love with someone else. “Honey,” Reviewed: Robyn Has Returned, and She Has What You Want 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

The longest is “Mount Olympus: to glorify the cult of tragedy,” which runs for a full 24 hours starting on Nov. 10. ‘Gatz’ and Other Long Works Will Come to N.Y.U. Skirball 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

Like Shakespeare only more so, The Finkler Question links tragedy and comedy. Howard Jacobson: 'I've been discovered' 2010-10-13T17:14:00Z

Performing one piece per evening, he discusses some of his own grave frailties and failings in the context of four of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Mike Daisey on Shakespeare and His Own Failings 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Its name is now etched into pundit shorthand, a cheap metaphor for tragedy: Columbine, Aurora, Virginia Tech, 101 California. Newtown is my hometown 2012-12-19T17:29:00Z

“Always in the tango is tragedy — she leaves him, she kills him. It’s like an opera but it’s called tango,” he told the Associated Press in 1997, reflecting on the “Tango” score. Gato Barbieri, Grammy-winning saxophonist heard on ‘Last Tango in Paris’ score, dies at 83 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

For these reasons, survivors typically appreciate the opportunity to speak to the news media amid personal tragedy. Explaining or exploiting? A mass shooting raises questions about media coverage. 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

A mob movie crossed with a Greek tragedy, “Malik” sets a moral test for viewers. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dujardin’s imitations and spoofs, while memorable, do not match the traditional criteria of the Cannes jury, which typically favors performances in social dramas and tragedies. French Twist: Jean Dujardin, a Comic Who Does Nuance 2011-11-20T01:57:20Z

A former New York cop with a tragedy and too much booze in his past, he now works as an unlicensed private investigator doing “favors” for people. ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ Adapts Lawrence Block’s Novel 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Themis Panou, who plays the tyrannical father in "Miss Violence", said he had to draw on Greek tragedy to help him play a character who was unlike anyone he had ever known. Perversion pervades Venice film fest with modern Greek tragedy 2013-09-01T18:58:43Z

Kim Kardashian, the queen of First World Problems, talks about one of them: the tragedy of unused cellphone data that doesn’t roll over to the following month. Super Bowl commercials still sassy, but a little more classy as sexism fades in 2015 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Does “Death of a Salesman” also contain hints of a “brighter possibility” for Willy that would raise it, according to Miller’s definition, out of pathos into tragedy? Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z

On the bill is Sibelius's popular Second Symphony, first performed in 1902: it's all frozen Finnish landscapes, struggle and tragedy, but ultimately optimistic. Tonight's TV highlights: BBC Proms 2010: Sibelius's Second Symphony 2010-08-25T23:05:00Z

The two young women experience — or perhaps instigate — an unspecified tragedy. In a Thriller About Girlfriends, Which Femme Is Fatale? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

The first overview of Darrel Ellis’s photo-based art in New York in over 20 years is suffused with a sense of tragedy and loss. What to See in New York Art Galleries Right Now 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

But it does shine gentle theatrical light on the way sweetness and sorrow are both magnified by tragedy.    'Every Brilliant Thing' approaches suicide with touching comic sincerity 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Once again, Stone is trying to recontextualize the primal drives of classic tragedy in the familiar landscape of today. ‘Medea’ Review: Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, Torched by Love 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

But he cannot match her emotional intensity or the profound sense of tragedy with which, even here, she invests her performance. Swan Lake – review 2013-06-15T23:05:23Z

The Challenger plot feels tonally off and too on the nose—not worth the use of the tragedy as material. In Season 3, “GLOW” Raises the Stakes 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

The goal is to wrest the play from naturalism and restore the Apollonian formalistic exultation, the primordial aestheticized and ritualistic strangeness of classical tragedy. Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

The tragedy of “Frankenstein” is I know full well there was an audience for it. A ‘Frankenstein’ That Never Lived 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Kerry's rise was sudden, and in the way of tragedy, her fall may be just as abrupt. In "Succession," Kerry reveals weakness by having a dream 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

Lucerys carried the stink of tragedy from the earliest moments of the episode. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1 Finale Recap: The Angriest Dragon 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

They’re sort of real, and hilariously played by Conrad Feininger and Steinmetz as slightly robotic, emotionally testy figures looking like Daddy Warbucks and Queen Elizabeth II. Unsurprisingly, their existence quickly leads to tragedy. Review | George Bernard Shaw’s science fiction ‘Methuselah’ reaches its final frontier 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, when Belavista addresses Alice and her fellow patients, they may as well be speaking directly to the reader, searching for silver linings in tragedy: “There is no ‘meaning’ or ‘higher purpose’ to your affliction. Julie Otsuka Dives Into the Underground World of the Community Pool 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

"When it happens to you, it's a national tragedy — why aren't the papers reporting this, you wonder. Only when it happens to someone else do you realize what a dull story it really is." Please tell me about your delayed flight 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

In the wake of the tragedy, Daniel searches for answers in his past while Johnny seeks redemption, and a chance at a better relationship with his son. "Cobra Kai," "Surviving Death" and Nicolas Cage on swearing: Everything coming to Netflix in January 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

Friends, Romans and those lucky enough to get tickets to the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park will be treated to Oskar Eustis’s production of a Roman tragedy geared to the Trump era. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Anderson's family released a statement expressing their condolences to the Nailor family and adding they were "praying to God to embrace, comfort and heal" those affected by the tragedy. Family of gunman in Villa Park killings never foresaw violence, relative says 2012-01-19T03:39:00Z

“Given 30 seconds to recommend a single book that might start a serious student on the hard road to understanding the political tragedies of the 20th century,” he wrote, “I would choose this one.” Heda Kovaly, Czech Who Wrote of Totalitarianism, Is Dead at 91 2010-12-09T05:29:00Z

With great tragedy comes a great need to feel connected to it, I observed drily to my husband. We can’t embrace hate now: In Paris, after the prayers, check-ins and acts of kindness, the real tests of compassion will begin 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Austen perpetually pushed back on the common estimation that the greatest tragedy for a woman is to never have wed, which Lady Denham spells out during their first reunion. A less sexy "Sanditon" doesn't evolve the plot, but so what? That's not why people watch 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

I like the noble romantic tragedy, whether it’s in a book or on the film. Jamie Ford writes about ‘a different world’ — 1920s-’30s Seattle 2013-09-06T21:49:48Z

There’s something so engaging and uplifting about that and yet there’s this dark underbelly — the narcissism, all these tragedies that happen. Hollywood at Home in New York 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The disease, and other tragedies in the women’s lives, stole the project away. Audiobooks for Those Long Summer Drives, Without the Kids 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

The village is torn apart by past tragedies and secrets, the young protagonists are alienated and alone, and strange creatures start appearing to blur the boundaries between the normal and the uncanny. Anime for beginners: five TV series to get you started 2013-04-01T14:00:00Z

This is a shrewd screenplay — it uses tragedy to retroactively indict political systems. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Either way, he took my mind off the tragedy that consumed the rest of my day. In Tokyo, Tsukiji Fish Market Braces for an Uncertain Future 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the wake of tragedy, Shin-ae looks for solace in routine — scolding her recalcitrant students with renewed rigor — and then in religion. | 'Secret Sunshine': Fierce Tests of Endurance and the Resilience of the Spirit 2010-12-21T23:18:57Z

It may be the tragedy of our times, but it’s also one we collectively refuse to examine. Detroit: A city in foreclosure 2013-02-14T21:06:00Z

The beauty of language, its boundless possibilities, was also its tragedy. Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

This is a woman's picture, a domestic tragedy about the destructive effects of a lady's self-deception. Hitchcock's Dark Dreamboat: Farley Granger (1925-2011) 2011-03-30T16:55:00Z

“Because sometimes being a woman is the greatest, most beautiful and wonderful thing in the world. And sometimes it’s a tragedy.” In ‘Ted Lasso,’ Juno Temple Makes Nice 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

I was starting to say, “For a cosmic tragedy.” Finding the Sweet, Stinging Salt in Plays of Confinement 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

The Rolling Stones mocked the tragedy in "Claudine," a song so pitiless that it wasn't released until decades later. 'Moon River' crooner Andy Williams dies at age 84 2012-09-26T14:41:23Z

“I can’t believe this could happen in this day and age … gunfire from a prop gun could kill a crew member? What a horrible tragedy. My heart goes out to her family,” he wrote. Woman shot on film set remembered as gifted cinematographer 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

And as the genteel setup of the first act turns to tragedy in the second after Herman falls ill, that chain begins to weigh and cut. Review: ‘Wedding Band,’ a Searing Look at Miscegenation Nation 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

But it was maddening to see these two events linked so glibly, as if the still unfolding tragedy of Afghanistan was already understood and fully processed. Perspective | What’s happening in Afghanistan can’t be reduced to images with historic parallels. When will we learn to see things in real time? 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Sadly, World War II interferes with Ondine’s progress — and after she moves to the United States, further tragedies develop, and the novel drags a bit. ‘Cooking for Picasso’: A young woman’s brush with fame and good food 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

And I’m “the most successful person in my family” — it’s not like I ended up living this life of tragedy. Janet Mock’s advice to media: “See trans people as people” 2014-02-06T00:00:00Z

Keenly observed and often surprisingly funny — but ultimately heartbreaking — the work traces the roots of a tragedy with both forensic psychological detail and embracing compassion. Review: The Jobs Are Gone in ‘Sweat.’ So Are People’s Hopes. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

“It is extremely insensitive to use my families tragedy for political agendas and discussion. This is a time of grief for our family. “Now is not the time for these discussions.” Alice Gross's sister criticises BBC over Question Time discussion 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

But “Macbeth” is the most instantly accessible of Shakespeare’s tragedies: violent, elemental, familiar, short. Review: In a New ‘Macbeth,’ Something Wonky This Way Comes 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Ted, hardened by his own tragedy, slowly brings Shelley into his fold, along with his father, his wife and their friends. Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

That kind of tension — between tragedy and transcendence — is what it takes to spend half a lifetime writing stories of the glamorous undead. Anne Rice talks about reviving vampire creations in 'Prince Lestat' 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Of course, the tragedy of it all is easy to relate — almost any movie involving cancer goes to some pains to show what it’s like to suffer through such a disease. “Deadpool” gets cancer right: Debunking the “hero” survivor myth, one smart-aleck joke at a time 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

And I do think that little manifesto about wealth distribution is an interesting thing to put in the middle of a tragedy. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

What “Show Me a Hero” doesn’t have, in the end, is the force of real tragedy. Review: ‘Show Me a Hero’ Focuses on a Mayor in the Maelstrom of Desegregation 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner – review 2012-09-29T21:55:01Z

The guitar, after all, had given Strings purpose since he was a toddler, vying for validation in a home struck by drugs and tragedy. How Billy Strings Picked His Way to the Other Side 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

One, for the first time since the tragedy, meets the man whose life he helped save. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Disappearance’ and ‘True Life: We Are Orlando’ 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Ramón's story is told very little and is surrounded by mystery because it's marked by tragedy. Unsettling "Madre" plays with perception of madness to examine a woman "clinging to the impossible" 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

It would go against Vegas’s very essence to curl up and hide; how does a place this uniquely outgoing steel itself in the wake of such a tragedy? Las Vegas After the Shooting: Renewing Vows, Embracing Community 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Blunt and lovely, they put us in touch with the stuff of Greek tragedies and Biblical stories by bringing both up to the minute and down to earth — right where we live. In Charles Garabedian's paintings, anguish of biblical proportions 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

As much as I have tragedy and drama in me, I also have a clown. TV Was an Alien World for Golshifteh Farahani. Then Came ‘Invasion.’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

"The tragedy of the Holocaust wasn't exclusively Jewish," he says. Yann Martel 2010-06-22T19:00:00Z

And yet tragedies still happen, begging us to wonder, if only passingly, whether these measures are a band-aid on a much larger problem. Man-making, not man-breaking: How we expect boys to prove their manhood on the football field 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

“It has been an open secret among the Motown family, the tragedy of Cindy,” Herman said in an interview. The Family of a Former Supreme Battles for Control of Her Life 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

Now in exile, Alinejad, a woman of exceptional courage, must face the tragedy of being territorially torn from a struggle that is uniquely Iranian and also crucially feminist. The Woman Whose Hair Frightens Iran 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Both are first-rate – but Ireland's tragedy, Friel implies, lies in the inability to own up to emotion. Philadelphia, Here I Come! – review 2012-08-01T14:09:54Z

His habits for maintaining longevity and resilience on the court — meditation, mindfulness and telling himself stories about the person he wanted to be — also spurred optimism in the face of personal tragedy. The way these older amateur athletes are staying fit despite the pandemic offers lessons for all ages 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

But when tragedy strikes the family, the members have to join the real world, and he has to rethink what being a good parent is about. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

But stories of the recent past, and especially those focused on tragedy and loss — such as the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, the Tulsa Race Massacre or the Oklahoma City bombing — demand special care. Museums for tragedies like 9/11 face a new challenge: Visitors too young to remember 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

But, as Frampton's career was finally ready to take off, tragedy struck. Not flushed with success 2011-07-18T07:59:05Z

In this novel, a Chicago comedian contends with unthinkable tragedy: A sinkhole opens up under the Art Institute, killing nearly his entire family. 13 New Books Coming in August 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Neither is Bullseye a stranger to tragedy; his past is defined by his family's relationship to the hunt. 'Confession of the Lioness' is a somber dance of hunter and hunted 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

The tragedy that sets these changes in motion is the death in action of young Theo Melville in Flanders just before Christmas 1915. ‘We That Are Left’ review: Can the British manor house survive? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The Russians themselves went numb to their own tragedy. It Sucked to Go Through World War II. Inferno Will Remind You Why. 2011-11-09T10:00:54Z

That tragedy looms over all that comes later. Better than his best ‘Law & Order’ episode: Peter Blauner’s new thriller, ‘Proving Ground’ 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The viewer might see the fall from rural poverty to urban destitution as a tragedy, but the former sharecroppers are more interested in survival than sentimentality. ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Review: This Modern Fairy Tale Is an Instant Classic 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

I wanted the tragedy of what happens to Lulu to be somewhat muted in its delivery. Te-Ping Chen on the Nihilism of the Internet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

The passion, the politics and the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War have fascinated me since I was a teenager. Teen book club: interviews Lydia Syson! 2012-12-21T08:00:00Z

“No words can express how I and the rest of the Deadpool 2 crew feel about this tragedy. Our thoughts are with her family, friends and loves ones in this difficult time.” Ryan Reynolds 'Heartbroken' After Stunt Driver Dies on Set 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

He goes to arrest her, but tragedy strikes. From Lost to Breaking Bad: how your favourite TV shows almost ended 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Despite the otherworldly scenery and some predictable tragedy — Robyn can be maddeningly careless about the welfare of her animals — this proves to be a rather logy amble. Mia Wasikowska Plays Robyn Davidson in ‘Tracks’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

As any other year, 2017 has been scarred by its share of domestic and international tragedy. 'Satire has had a busy year': how to laugh at the year that was 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Whether the result is comedy or tragedy depends on the audience, but one thing is sure: It won’t be the last. 36 Hours in Montpellier, France 2012-08-09T19:11:35Z

Her eye for endearing weirdness whips such diverse sources into a coming-of-age tale that ricochets between mother and daughter, comedy and tragedy, fantasy and reality. What to see in L.A. galleries: John Altoon, Maria Lassnig, a funky fairy tale and stenciled magic 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

A self-confessed bookworm with a penchant for graphic novels, she named one of her latest songs after the I Kill Giants series, in which a young girl has to confront a terrible tragedy at home. The Naked and Famous: Making waves 2013-09-20T06:39:28Z

You use incredibly emotive language – “parental negligence”, “browbeaten”, “tragedy” of “Shakespearean” proportions no less – and although you admit to carrying huge anger I wonder if you understand how much that anger is carrying you. My nephew is disabled and it’s his mother’s fault | Mariella Frostrup 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Photograph: BBC It was Karl Marx who said history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. BBC looks to steal Downton ratings with two helpings of PG Wodehouse 2012-12-29T22:35:29Z

That's rarely been more true than in this tragedy of doomed passion. Sundance film festival 2013: Ain't Them Bodies Saints – first look review 2013-01-25T18:05:21Z

But not everything that happened in the United States from the first time a Western European got here is a tragedy. With ‘1883,’ Taylor Sheridan Expands His Western Empire 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

When a gunman shot and killed five employees of the Capital Gazette last summer in Annapolis, Md., it seemed wise not to tie the tragedy to Trump’s anti-media assaults. Perspective | The connection between hateful rhetoric and terrorizing acts is glaringly obvious, but some refuse to see it 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Langella will star in Shakespeare's tragedy at the Minerva theatre in November. Frank Langella to play King Lear 2013-06-20T10:27:26Z

For all of these reasons, he said that he is praying during this unfolding tragedy "that some sense will come to the leaders of Russia, particularly Vladimir Putin." Russia-Ukraine war: 'Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people,' says Chicago pastor 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

A Southwest Airlines pilot is being praised for her “nerves of steel” in helping prevent a worse tragedy after an emergency landing Tuesday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pilot of Southwest flight praised after engine explosion 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

When she learns that Harold is on his way, she begins a letter to him confessing her affection and her secret role in his private tragedy. ‘The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy,’ by Rachel Joyce 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

That there would not be a long term adds a dimension to the tragedy of his death, since the influence he wielded continued well after he retired from basketball. Kobe Bryant’s Many Moves to the Net 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

There's no question that Michael Jackson's death was a terrible tragedy. Jackson back in spotlight as civil trial begins 2013-04-30T15:17:13Z

He also credits their relationship with helping him through tragedy. Meeting a Political Opponent, Finding a Spouse 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

But that only adds a compelling undertone of tragedy. Ebony G. Patterson Brings a Crowd to the New York Botanical Garden 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

That would be an unfortunate byproduct of the Martin tragedy, according to McCrie. ‘Your dad’s in jail’ 2012-06-26T16:33:00Z

But as a fairy tale jampacked with action, romance, comedy, tragedy, drama, music, dancing and Western pizazz, it's a painless entree to the archetypal Bollywood style. 'Kites': a star-crossed love story, Bollywood style 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z

The great tragedy of the Wombles is that their mission to make Britain tidier now looks like a sick joke. The Wombles at 40 – why we need them more than ever 2013-02-05T18:08:18Z

Often it is crushed under tomes of greater size, but what “Gatsby,” lacks in length it makes up for in heart, opulence and tragedy. ‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: A Musical Take on Tragic Desire 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z