tragic flaw

collocation in English

meaningsoftragicandflaw

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tragic
adjective
uk
/ˈtrædʒ.ɪk/us
/ˈtrædʒ.ɪk/
very sad, often involving death ...
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flaw
noun[C]
uk
/flɔː/us
/flɑː/
a fault, mistake, or weakness, especially one that happens while something is being planned or made, or that causes something not to ...
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(Definition oftragicandflawfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Some terms covered: abbreviation, burlesque, determiner, chapbook, documentary, epic, hexameter, kabuki, lacuna, paragram, proscenium, simile,tragicflaw, whodunit, zeugma.
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The invasion has always lacked legitimacy, and that lack of legitimacy has been atragicflaw.
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Often the protagonist of the play has atragicflaw, a trait which leads to their downfall.
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In a tragedy, the protagonist here makes a bad decision, a miscalculation that demonstrates histragicflaw.
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It's atragicflawin him because of his childhood.
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In modern discussions of tragedy, hamartia has often been described as a hero'stragicflaw.
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Is it his fate, his free will or histragicflawthat causes his downfall?
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His view was that most of his heroes had atragicflawthat made their struggles ultimately futile.
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The eponymous hero is a colossal and unpredictable hajduk, born with the necessarytragicflaw.
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Thus, he developed his notion of hamartia, ortragicflaw, an error in judgment by the main character or protagonist.
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Richard is unable to integrate his human and werewolf natures, and thistragicflawhaunts him throughout the series.
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He has notragicflaw.
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What ensues is a confrontation with the tragic flaws of the over-consuming bourgeoisie.
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