Sentences with phrase «tragic tale of»

The tragic tale of Anna Wind is representative of that faced by hundreds of thousands of bicycle accident victims each year.

Were you moved recently by the tragic tale of 150,000 penguins killed by global warming?

A list of the victims scrolls along the left hand of the page, showing a tragic tale of a disease that is killing young and old alike.

Here's the tragic tale of a «Community» wind farm at Fairhaven, Massachusetts in the US — as told by the victims.

The song tells the tragic tale of John Franklin, the famed British sea captain and adventurer who vanished after setting out in 1845 in search of the Northwest Passage — with that vanishing triggering an astonishing burst of British and American Arctic exploration aimed at least in part at finding him and his crew.

«Damaged Goods» In conjunction with Barnaby Barford's first animated film, Damaged Goods tells the tragic tale of porcelain figures residing in a bric - a-brac shop.

Through the tragic tale of Achilles, Nguyen calls attention to the fleeting nature of youth and beauty.

Naturally, when Honeycutt discovered The Glass Room, a 2009 novel by Simon Mawer that tells the compelling and tragic tale of a Modern house built in Czechoslovakia before World War II, she was drawn to the story, and she decided to use it as the basis for this exhibition.

What ensues is a tragic tale of love, a fight against pollution and the greed of consuming fossil fuels, and the existential crises wrought by massive amounts of drug dosing.

This is a tragic tale of two friends faced with an impossible decision that will test their loyalty to each other and their vow to protect the people of the kingdom of Ruswal.

Based on true events that convulsed Victorian Ireland, The Convictions of John Delahunt is the tragic tale of a man who betrays his family, his friends, his society and, ultimately, himself.

The Tragic Tale of Narcissa Whitman and a Faithful History of the Oregon Trail.

Great historical fiction gives the reader deeper understanding of the times and people depicted; Vanora Bennett allows me to finally comprehend the deep differences between the French and English explored in both Shakespeare's Henry V and the tragic tale of Saint Joan.

In Donohue's take on the tragic tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, a woman is transformed into a puppet, and her husband must try to bring her back.

Powers, whose debut novel, The Yellow Birds, is among the best works of fiction to come out of America's 21st - century wars, has penned a tragic tale of moral corruption set in Virginia.

This is not the first time the tragic tale of young, star - crossed lovers has been animated: there was Canada's 1979 robot romance TV special Romie - 0 and Julie - 8, Russia's early 1990s TV series «Shakespeare: The Animated Tales» covered it in an episode, and 2006's feature cartoon Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss cast young seals in the lead roles.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events recounts the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans — Violet, Klaus, and Sunny — whose evil guardian Count Olaf will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance.

Part biopic, part cerebral thriller, Morten Tyldum's follow up to 2011's Headhunters is the improbable and ultimately tragic tale of master logician Alan Turing.

Franco had his work cut out for him in approaching this story; on paper, it's hard to identify whether it's a tragic tale of a man with a dream who failed spectacularly in trying to achieve it it, a comedy about a weirdo, or a triumphant tale of unexpected success.

Also on its way to big screens is a more tragic tale of the Kennedy family: the real life tale of Senator Edward «Ted» Kennedy's darkest hour, told for the first time cinematically in John Curran's docudrama Chappaquiddick.

This gripping and bizarrely tragic tale of a billionaire who took it upon himself to bankroll and train the US Olympic wrestling team for the 1988 Seoul games is quite extraordinary.

In fact, his first project proceeding the thunder that was 12 Years A Slave is something even smaller and more personal: a tragic tale of a love affair caught in the midst of the Biafran Civil War.

It told the tragic tale of a Carrie White, a bullied teen outcast with telekinetic powers who, after being pushed too far by what she thought were newly - acquired friends, makes their Prom Night a one to forget.

Based on the best - selling book series, season two of the Netflix show plunges further into the darkly comedic mystery, which tells the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans — Violet (Malina), Klaus (Louis), and Sunny (Presley Smith)-- and their extraordinary encounters with the devious Count Olaf who will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance.

Add to that the layered performances by Mara, Law, and Tatum, and the story feels like the tragic tale of good characters who are caught up in a very bad situation.

Set in the rollicking heyday of the French opera house, the tragic tale of the talented but tormented loner unfolds through grayed depictions of the present and brilliant full - color memories of the past.

Obvious Child is a warm, funny and almost tragic tale of life behind the microphone from a comic's point of view.

Far from your typical musical biopic, Born to Be Blue tells the tragic tale of jazz legend Chet Baker.

This amazing actor and the excellent cast all excell in this incredibly moving and tragic tale of one extraordinary man.

Even though it might seem counter-intuitive, online shopping is going to be the hero of your tragic tale of shopping procrastination.

Feminists have tried to cast Esther's life as a tragic tale of male domination and female liberation.

In Matter, writer Zak Stone offers a tragic tale of an Airbnb stay gone wrong.

Turn it off early and it's a tragic tale of Maverick accidentally killing his best friend, Goose.

The history of self - publishing is littered with tragic tales of over - and under - priced books falling at the wayside as stingy or skeptical crowds pass them by.

This should go without saying, but we still hear the tragic tales of dogs and other pets being left in cars on hot days.

Despite the mass media attention this usually gets, there are often still tragic tales of victims, so don't take any chances this summer.

We are drawn to their stories, to the tragic tales of loss, the prospect of treasure... On Queensland's Fraser Island, the...

We are drawn to their stories, to the tragic tales of loss, the prospect of treasure...

Hear the tragic tales of the Loch Ard Gorge and discover why this spectacularly wild part of Victoria is known as the Shipwreck Coast.

... see the Guinness record for limos and Lear jets parked in one spot... hear tragic tales of total destruction from Nobel laureates... You there on the right!

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Many stories, however, partook of neighboring categories in the circle, and, possibly in consonance with the tale I came to tell myself, most told me tragic ironies.

In the various versions of the tale that entered the repertoire of the commedia dell» arte, the elevation of the story's comic aspects over the tragic became more pronounced.

Romeo is so deep rooted in the tragic tale Romeo and Juliet that people don't even think of it for the modern baby.

IN GREEK mythology, the tale of the Trojan prince Tithonus is a tragic one.

The performances of Bettany (I still maintain he should have played the title role in Constantine, instead of Keanu) and Connelly are top notch, and I dare anyone to not be affected by this beautiful, tragic, yet ultimately uplifting tale.

Still, it's on Franco's expressive face that Boyle tells his tale of courage under fire, even in that squirmy, avert - your - eyes moment when Aron uses a dull knife on his arm rather than resign himself to a tragic fate.

take a look at our dive into the tragic and twisted tale of the original Stooges.

I never get tired of this tragic fairy tale.

It's not just the title of Martin Scorsese's brilliant, excruciating tale of artistic delusion, The King of Comedy, that retrospectively takes on a sense of tragic irony when viewed in the context of its star's career.

De Niro (Meet the Fockers, Shark Tale) plays New York psychologist David Calloway, who moves with his traumatized daughter, Emily (Fanning, Man on Fire), to a small town upstate after the tragic suicide of his wife, in the hopes that the change of scenery will break her back out of the shell she is in.