Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French deals with an incident in 1798, and Tenants begins with uprisings in the 1860s; the foreknowledge of history merely colors these works with an agreeable wash of irony. The End of the Hunt seems more tragic because the political failures it describes lead directly to the recent bloody decades, when the balladmakers have given up but the bombers are still at work...
...electronics from the cars," he said. "The cars are very fast and difficult to drive. It is going to be a season of accidents." After Ratzenberger's death, an article Senna wrote for the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag appeared. It said his concerns had been "borne out in tragic fashion." Little did Senna know that his would be the next tragedy...
...bright and spring burgeons on screen, nature budding everywhere. From the contrast, one might assume that the characters of the film ascend from the depths of despair to at least a moderate altitude of happiness. On the contrary--what the audience undergoes could only be positively construed as tragic catharsis, where multitudes perish for the audience's emotional benefit...
...week's unprecedented all-race voting created a united land out of bitterly divided fragments, and for Scott MacLeod, TIME's Johannesburg bureau chief, it represented the high point of nearly five years of covering Nelson Mandela's journey from prisoner to President. "Most conflict stories we cover have tragic endings," observes MacLeod, "but what has made this a thrilling time to me is witnessing the remarkable determination here to heal divisions and achieve reconciliation...
Those who have known Fenton for more than 40 years says his life story is tragic. Some claim he is emotionally unstable...