`` And it's all the more tragic because it's so little deserved '', said Mr. J. J. A. Frans, a Belgian official of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

In fact, the very existence of the Alphabet plays, or rather the absence of an equivalent edition for Sophocles and Aeschylus, could distort our notions of distinctive Euripidean qualitiesmost of his least ' tragic ' plays are in the Alphabet edition and possibly the other two tragedians would appear just as genre-bending as this " restless experimenter " if we possessed more than their ' select ' editions.

Associated with this increase in resolutions was an increasing vocabulary for tragic dialogue, often involving prefixes to refine meanings, allowing the language to assume a more natural rhythm while also becoming ever more capable of psychological and philosophical subtlety.

After John Chilembwe's tragic death other more vocal and politically active groups-first through associations-emerged.

Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

It has been suggested that with their emphasis on the younger, attractive and charismatic characters, Neighbours and Home and Away have found success in the middle ground between glamorous, fantastic US soaps with their wealthy but tragic heroes and the more grim, naturalistic UK soap operas populated by older, unglamorous characters.

Some critics have said that the emotional springboard of the First Violin Sonata and many other of Prokofiev's compositions of this time " may have more to do with anti-Stalinism than the war ", and most of his later works " resonated with darkly tragic ironies that can only be interpreted as critiques of Stalin's repressions.

He said he " felt like there was a real story underneath was more fascinating and way more tragic " than the story presented to the public, and attempted to turn the idea into a play.

This period saw her persona develop from that of a young gamine to a more melancholic, tragic presence.

From its obscure origins in the theaters of Athens 2, 500 years ago, from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Racine, and Schiller, to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Strindberg, Beckett's modernist meditations on death, loss and suffering, and Müller's postmodernist reworkings of the tragic canon, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change.

" This reversal of fortune must be caused by the tragic hero's hamartia, which is often mistranslated as a character flaw, but is more correctly translated as a mistake ( since the original Greek etymology traces back to hamartanein, a sporting term that refers to an archer or spear-thrower missing his target ).

Nietzsche in " What I Owe to the Ancients " in his Twilight of the Idols wrote: " The psychology of the orgiastic as an overflowing feeling of life and strength, where even pain still has the effect of a stimulus, gave me the key to the concept of tragic feeling, which had been misunderstood both by Aristotle and even more by modern pessimists.

Despite their efforts — Ouisa's more than Flan's — his fate is unresolved, except for a possibly tragic end.

In one of the film's more memorable scenes, a physician matter-of-factly informs Gehrig of his tragic diagnosis, dismal prognosis, and brief life expectancy.

The area that is now lower Oak Creek was more or less on the border of the area occupied by the Dil-ze ' e Chein-chii-ii ( or Red Rock Clan ) and Yaa-go-gain ( White Land Clan ) The US army gathered the Yavapai and Apache people in the area and in 1875 removed them in a tragic and brutal march and exile to the San Carlos Reservation in Eastern Arizona, but many Dilze ' e remained in hiding in the Lower Oak Creek and adjoining White Hills area As late as 1876, numerous Dil-ze ' e still lived on or near Lower Oak Creek.

One of the more tragic episodes in Gridley ’ s history took place on 3 September 1946.

10 % to make the tragic concept more endurable.

Robena also became famous for a more tragic reason: in December 1962 37 miners died in an explosion at Robena No. 3, illustrating how precarious this work truly was.

Released during the wake of September 11 attacks, the album managed to debut at number one on the Billboard 200, selling more than 427, 000 units ; the album's success was overshadowed by the tragic event.

" Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as " Easy ," " Three Times a Lady ," " Still ," and the tragic breakup ballad " Sail On.

Other episodes used more creative formats, such as the 1997 live episode, " Ambush " performed twice ; once for the east coast broadcast and again three hours later for the west coast, and 2002's " Hindsight " which ran in reverse time as it followed one character, Dr. Luka Kovac, through the tragic events of one Christmas Eve shift and the Christmas party that preceded it.

In the 90s, the meteoric rise of Mamonas Assassinas, which sold more than 3 million copies of its only CD ( a record, by Brazilian standards ) came to a tragic end when the band's plane crashed, killing all five members of the band, the pilot and the co-pilot.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

and George Washington Harris, whose Tennessee hillbilly character Sut Lovingood perpetrated more unmalicious mischief and more unintended pain than any other character in literature.

The more I probed into this young man's activities and character, the less savory I found him.

Of more importance to the West than Poland's boundaries was the character of her government.

Though his character is broader and more comically rounded than the don, he gives it a firmness and toughness -- a sort of peasant dignity -- too.

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

Synapomorphies ( a character that is shared by two or more groups through evolutionary development ) include the presence in the plants of oligosaccharide inulin, a nutrient storage molecule used instead of starch ; and unique stamen morphology.

However it is in its proper sense, in which it indicates national character and the subjection due to that character, that the word is more important.

Agrarianism concentrates on the fundamental goods of the earth, communities of more limited economic and political scale than in modern society, and on simple living — even when this shift involves questioning the " progressive " character of some recent social and economic developments.

But his opposition assumed a more active character in the matter of the bishop of Callinicum in Mesopotamia.

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, the character of Alberto Mallich ( founder of the Unseen University and later Death's manservant Albert ) is a sly nod to Albertus Magnus in his more legendary and esoteric guise.

Evidence suggests he was not physically strong, and though not lacking in courage, he was more noted for his intellect than a warlike character.

The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.

This ability made the Amiga popular for many applications, and provides the ability to do character generation and CGI effects far more cheaply than earlier systems.

Based on a newer, slightly more flexible, version of the Asters original Motorola MC6845 video chip, the Rockwell 6545, it worked by adding a new video mode, one with the ability to reprogram an extended, ( 2048 characters instead of 256 characters ) version of the character set, supported by an extended character memory of the video card that did not use one ( 8 bit ) byte per character, but an 11 bit " word ", so it could address each one of the available 2048 unique programmable characters.

The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.

Cubby Broccoli had chosen to recast the character using actor Timothy Dalton, in an attempt to re-root the Bond-brand back to a more Sean Connery-like feel.

* Modification is even more inconvenient than extraction-just changing a single character of one of the archived files will typically require that the entire archive be uncompressed, updated, and then recompressed.