Words similar to tragedies

Example sentences for: tragedies

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Corriere della Sera of Milan reported a row at the Salzburg Festival in Austria, where the authorities have imposed a ban on under-16s attending an "erotic" edited version of Shakespeare's tragedies.
In "The Jewbird," a melancholy black bird named Schwartz lands on the balcony of a New York family and insists on being taken care of--a sad nuisance of a talking bird, fleeing God knows what tragedies (the bird says, "Gevalt , a pogrom!"
The film has been consciously devised as the flip side of All About Eve (1950)--as a tale of women not bitchily at one another's throats but holding one another together through life's most senseless tragedies.
But those are her tragedies, not our business (or Wall Street's).
Rebuilt by the Romans to hold 15,000 spectators (one of the largest of the ancient world), the Greek Theater dates back to the fifth century b.c. when Aeschylus himself arrived from his home at Gela to supervise productions of his tragedies.