Lenox looked very straight out across the sea, and her face, in its ugly rigidity, had for the moment a tragic beauty.

Oh, it's a tragic beauty, all right, but that's what makes it so different from the beauty of nature, and in its own way precious.

These early influences of fashion and family would later shape his life and career through his love to capture tragic beauty in a photo.

He was a little staggered by the stern, almost tragic beauty of the face in that red shadow.

He thought the flute and harp music accompanying Giselle as she disappeared into her grave at ballet's end "full of tragic beauty."

But the most compelling among them, the tragic beauty, must die just before the 11 o'clock news.

Yet that fate deployed itself with a tragic beauty as perfect as a sunset.

Anyone touched by its tragic beauty will remember it through long gray winters, through cold Novembers and sleepless nights.

In 1935, The New York Times called it "a film of extraordinary insight, tenderness and tragic beauty."

She was still silent, and not a tear marred the perfect and tragic beauty of her face.