"This would be a tragic spectacle for everyone," Mr. Kunstler said during a break in the proceedings.

It is a painful and tragic spectacle that rises before me: I have drawn back the curtain from the rottenness of man.

Everything was calm in the city, despite the tragic spectacle of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies - some of which were badly burned.

It is sometimes called a tragic spectacle, because in many forms of the sport the bull is invariably killed, and the bullfighter is always at risk of death.

There are certainly more tragic spectacles in this city than the well-to-do running to get their garbage to the curb on time, but there may be few as emblematic.

His trembling hands and numbed face make for a tragic spectacle equal to Lear on the moor or Oedipus staring blindly from his throne.

Ciocan interprets the work's overall perspective as: "Life is a spectacle both tragic and comical [...], into which 'things great and small' are undiscernably mixed together."

But the taste for tragic spectacle had not vanished from Ireland, Doheny thought.

A theatrically tragic spectacle, all told.