Word: tragic
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...second song, “The Island,” a three-part, 12-minute epic inspired by “The Tempest,” captures the spirit of the album: beautiful lyrics, a tragic narrative, and a wild variety of sounds. The first part, “Come and See,” rumbles along with a low, sinister guitar riff, building tension as Meloy describes an island shipwreck...
...friend of mine woke me up this morning with the terrible news that Hui had passed away. My sleepy mind went numb, and I couldn’t believe what was going on; I refused to accept the tragic revelation that a friend of mine had suddenly died...
...papers take a break for Columbus Day. Harvard and Brown have a day off. Cornell is on vacation. The Dartmouth stretches the limits of a slow-news day. And the Yale Daily News' website says its outgoing editors were to publish their "Joke Issue" today, but in a tragic turn of events, it's not online! Hey, guys, why so shy? The DP publishes its joke issue for all the world...
...classicist, is also the unrivaled master of movie exposition. Nobody can get a movie going like him, and sustain it with camerabatics and an attention-deficit editing ethic. The problem with his films, if it is one, is that they often describe a degeneration based on repetition. His characters' tragic flaw is that their crimes are their obsessions; they become addicted to expressing the beast within themselves. This makes for explosive moments in an anti-dramatic trajectory, so his his films don't build, they simply accrue - and then collapse, like a runner exhausted at the end of a marathon...
After President Kennedy’s tragic assassination, his family dreamed of establishing a living memorial to his memory at Harvard. It would be a place where the worlds of politics and academia would meet, a place for undergraduates to pursue public service and thereby recapitulate President Kennedy’s transformative experience many times over...