| The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus. |
| The pathetic devotion of Aspatia is essential to our understanding of Amintor's tragic weakness, his hamartia. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Rather, her moment of hamartia comes when she decides to behave in a manner that she knows might destroy her social and familial standing. |
| 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. |
