In modern tragedy the same predominance exists.

Sadly, though, the love gets caught up in the grittier details, transforming what would have been a grand romance into a modern American tragedy.

Indeed, our great modern tragedies, Vietnam and Watergate, have flowed in large measure from personality flaws.

Things Fall Apart has been called a modern Greek tragedy.

It took the form and structure of the "well-made play" but turned it from a piece of fluff into a modern tragedy.

That two young women so full of hope and aspiration should end up in Broadmoor after turning to violent crime seemed a modern tragedy.

He outlined his conception of the play as a "modern tragedy" in a note written in Rome on 19 October 1878.

Filkins's article was a modern American tragedy.

Had the prestige which hedges about a modern tragedy existed, nothing could have been done.

Bernie's is the modern tragedy of never-ending effort and wholehearted commitment falling like a bad souffle.