Sentences with phrase «unrelieved tragedy»

That is to say, is existence inescapably tragic and do comic endings only tell us that we may achieve a certain transcendence over the unrelieved tragedy of history in our minds?

And so the stage is set for the description of the Passion itself, which is given in a tone of unrelieved tragedy, with none of those alleviating touches which the other evangelists have allowed themselves.

The close of the story seems to be unrelieved tragedy.

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It is not an unrelieved sense of tragedy: Israel records with humor and glee in I 5 - 6 the humiliation, in the presence of the ark, of Dagon, god of Philistia, and the humiliation by a plague of the Philistines themselves, regarded as a result of having the ark in their midst.