He's going to ruin my party," Raoul concluded in tragic tones.

The film often has a more tragic tone than the book, which often falls back on callous humor.

Perhaps under other circumstances, his book would have struck a more disillusioned, more tragic tone, but this we will never know.

Wendy spoke in tragic tones, only slightly modified by a faint proud stress on the word 'club'.

But now she had a fitting setting for her tragic tone and a fitting object.

"We have suffered an unexpected loss," he declared, in a tragic tone.

After his accidental demise, the play suddenly becomes serious and takes on a tragic tone.

Such a tragic tone to the songs.

Plus, the tragic tone of the film didn't quite gel with the festivities of Durga-puja for the public.

"Ignomínia" is a short but powerful poem that has a tragic and profound tone.