| Rather, her moment of hamartia comes when she decides to behave in a manner that she knows might destroy her social and familial standing. |
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| The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus. |
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| The critic Frank Kermode corrected our mistranslation of Aristotle's word hamartia, suggesting that a more accurate and useful interpretation would be missing the mark. |
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| If hamartia is culpable error, tragedies that end up with calamities do not call into question the teleology of human events. |
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| Susan Sontag suffers from the same hamartia, according to Mendelsohn, who is endlessly fascinated by how the lack of self-knowledge makes self-betrayal inevitable. |
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| If you're unfamiliar with hamartia, it may sound like the sort of medication your family doctor would prescribe to ward off a series of colds or a massive coronary. |
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| What ensures the fear is, of course, the dramatization of the horrible ends to which hamartia has led. |
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| La Numancia, the play, is consistent with just such a conception of hamartia, in that moral burden is placed on either of the two agents, Numancia or Rome. |
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| Mardonius, predictably, designates the sexual desire as a tragic hamartia. |
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