tragedian
noun
Examples of tragedian in a Sentence
Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
Above the minotaur, ancient Greek tragedians are painted on the wall—Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus.
—Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
Based on the Greek tragedian Euripides’s tale of Medea, the opera is centered on a scorned Medea whose thirst for vengeance can only be quenched with murder.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2022
No actor has ever emerged as fully formed, as original and with such unique timing as Streisand does here, gracefully blending romantic lead with outrageous clown, Broadway belter and heartbreaking tragedian.
—Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
The judge was quoting words written by Aeschylus, a Greek tragedian who lived around 500 B.C.
—John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
Just as the Greek tragedian zeroed in on moments of choice and free will in the plots of characters circumscribed by fate, so Giddens and Abels look for moments of freedom in the lives of characters denied this basic human right.
—Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2022
Over two millennia ago, the Athenian tragedian Sophocles first described the archetype in his portraits of an angry and old but still fearsome Ajax, and heroic but stubborn and self-fixated Antigone.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020
New York Eugene O’Neill, the dour tragedian of 20th-century American theater, was the least likely of men to have tucked a warmhearted family comedy in between his bleak tales of life at its direst.
—Terry Teachout, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2019
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Word History
Middle English tragedien, from Middle French, from tragedie
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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