That defense succeeds when a lawyer can present the defendant as someone whose tragic downfall was that he loved too well.

It was clear that by dragging it out for six months, by not knowing when to stop, Rose had turned what might have been a sudden and almost tragic downfall into a public termination.

Lillo redefined the subject of dramatic tragedy and demonstrated that middle and lower class citizens were worthy of tragic downfalls.

Very little ramming was essayed after the first tragic downfall of rammer and rammed, and what ever attempts at boarding were made were invisible to Bert.

It is about the tragic downfall of a lion from king of the beasts to a gibbering, pill-popping wreck.

Using trial transcripts, personal correspondence and interviews, the drama recreates the tragic downfall of Wilde, whose artistic accomplishments were long overshadowed by the scandal leading to his imprisonment.

In drama, Kong Shangren's Kunqu (southern) opera The Peach Blossom Fan, completed in 1699, portrayed the tragic downfall of the Ming dynasty in romantic terms.

One senses that he could travel miles with a problematic character, paving the downhill slope of a tragic downfall for a ludicrous wallower in self-indulgence.

He insists that Mr. Rittereiser's ego was behind the firm's tragic downfall.

He is known mostly for his role in the Battle of Marathon; as well as his rather tragic downfall afterwards.