Throughout much of our history, and in literature, Thanksgiving retained its tragic sense.

And yet personal progress is exactly what the tragic sense of things casts into doubt.

I knew a woman who chose one man over another because, as she said, "Jack has a tragic sense of life."

An ironic attitude or a tragic sense of life may make you a more interesting person.

"It's the kind of tragic sense that the South always had," he says.

Irish people are very funny but have this tragic sense.

His is a depressive rather than tragic sense of guilt.

Italy and Japan led the way in making movies with a tragic sense of life.

A tragic sense of life has seeped, perhaps for the first time, into the American consciousness.

So young to have developed her tragic sense so highly.