0 an event or situation that is very sad, often involving death -- tragedia, nieszczęście
1 a play with a sad end -- tragedia
a Greek tragedy
However, the majority of chaconnes in tragedies en musique remained the prerogative of noble and magical characters, and thus mirrored the strongly hierarchical order of the ancien regime.
Although losses and tragedies occur as people grow older there are also strong grounds for believing in the ability of individuals to recover from these setbacks.
Euripides often slows the dramatic action in order to give scope to his characters' passions in song, then uses those songs, in turn, to structure his tragedies.
Even though 45 % agreed that depression is a medical condition, 47 % felt that depressive disorders originated solely from tragedies or adversities in the person's life.
We note, finally, that in policymaking and policy tragedies, the narrative must embed a representation of the victim or the beneficiary (or both).
I asked my students what differences there were between the two tragedies.
Can they illuminate the great tragedies of the past century?
According to them, the official silence over the tragedies denies the validity of their sufferings.
