Word: tragic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That aside, a few comments, Use of force is at the heart of policing. It is rarely used, however, and use of deadly force occurs even more rarely. However tragic the instances cited by Mr. Louis, the fact is that police exercise their legal right to use deadly force in only a minuscule percentage of cases in which its use would be justified--even when viewed in light of the most restrictive gun policy. Although it is rarely used, the capacity of police to legitimately use force shapes most, if not all, police contacts with citizens. Use of force...
...ridiculous acts of protest. The shooting down of the plane was in part a result of the increased tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S. If relations between the two nations improved, the weapons buildup and covert activities would diminish, thus lessening the chance for more of these tragic incidents...
...world, that Motherwell was too French, too fluent, not hard enough on himself or his viewers. Unlike such Nietzschean contemporaries as Pollock and Still, he was (dreaded word!) "elegant," and the fact that the blackness, raggedness and restrained violence of many of his paintings invoked the tragic only made matters worse...
...bullfighters' hats, black frames that evoke the deep shadow of doors in light-struck village walls. But out of these signs Motherwell has fashioned a resonant and funereal sequence of images that, despite its repetitions (when in doubt, paint an Elegy), is one of the few sustained tragic utterances in post-Picassoan art. He has always been faithful to the abstract expressionist dictum (which he helped formulate) that subject matter is crucial...
Fools of Fortune unfolds with the inevitability of Attic drama. The elegiac chapters and the grieving mood are expertly drawn, though dolefully unchanging. Similarly, the characters have perfect tragic pitch but limited range. They are, as Trevor obviously intended, ghostly creations speaking beyond pasion and hope. -By R.Z. Sheppard...