Sentences with phrase «tragic sense of history»

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Hutchinson was more responsive to the positions of Reinhold Niebuhr, partly because of Niebuhr's involvement in social and political affairs and partly because of his deep sense of the tragic role of sin and corruption in history.

Even when we sense the tragic and fragmentary character of our acts, we are likely to place them outside the framework of history.

So some do have a sense of tragic loss, of dispossession, of the end of a thousand years of history when we joined the EEC or because of the presence of the descendants of immigrants.

Set in Gillan's own hometown of Inverness, the film uses the tragic history of the Scottish Highlands (which has the highest suicide rate in the U.K.) to spin out an intimate coming of age tale, bolstered by Gillan's dark sense of humor and a firm understanding of how to play with narrative conventions.