How To Use Tragedy In A Sentence

When Connor sees that Michael's teenage son has witnessed the crime, it spells tragedy for the O'Sullivan family.
Racism is a tragedy beyond socioeconomic deprivation; it speaks of the total deprivation of the church today.
Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.
Contrary to popular belief , he was not responsible for the tragedy.
She plays Silly, a Nova Scotian seasprite of girl who is the subject of a marine tragedy of, er, Titanic proportions.

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But while the mysterious circumstances of the tragedy keep on adding up, the ghostly presence of her partner seems intent on having his say. The Sun
As the tragedy unfolded, the eyewitness tried to find a lifebuoy.
The shadow of this early tragedy has affected her whole life.
Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.
As soon as news of the tragedy was announced, shock waves spread rapidly to all parts of the country.
The tragedy is the orientation will be in the interests of capital rather than working people.
Plunged in darkness again, the man, whom Rose had called unimaginative, suffered all the untold agony of soul which had been hers during the moment in which she had been forced to make up her mind and carry out the act, only his anguish was the more intense, for hers was the quick action and his the forced inaction of a man bound to a stake, within full sight of a tragedy being enacted upon a loved one. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
The tragedy is that these are doomed to failure because they are in no way, enhancers of resources.
It will be a tragedy if the Liberals continue to be the main beneficiaries of this.
This tragedy graphically demonstrates the dangers of walking on the fells after dark.
An airliner uncontrollably gains altitude, leaving the crew with a race against time to avert tragedy and land safely. The Sun
He suffered massive brain damage in the soccer ground tragedy.
His marriage to an heiress is a tragedy.
In classical episteme, the understanding of the same tragedy category is different to some extent because of in different time and space, but they are similar on the whole.
It reminded us of a Jacobian tragedy from the 17th century in almost every way. Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Director Martin Campbell and Graham King Interview EDGE OF DARKNESS – Collider.com
All societies can, if they choose, negate the tragedy by altering the reward system.
The mobile lifestyle will disappear but Americans will discover that losing the automobile is a small tragedy compared to losing food. Sound Politics: Scenes from Wallingford
The ship, with fifteen hundred passengers, and fitted with sufficient lifeboats after the tragedy of the Titanic two years before, sailed in late afternoon, heading east down the St. Lawrence Seaway. Bird Cloud
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. Robert F. Kennedy
There is a crisis and a tragedy, enlightenment and epiphany.
And the key to its success is that Trilling takes what Aristotle called dianoia “thought,” which he defined as a lesser element of tragedy, and makes it indistinguishable from ethos, character. Archive 2009-07-01
The plays fall into the categories of history, tragedy, comedy and tragicomedy.
‘It is a question of taking a tragedy and making a political issue out of it, attempting to wrong-foot the government on this issue,’ he said.
This was followed by an ignominious foray in inflatable boats, where again only a miracle averted tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
Blue Bonnet sighed deeply as she recalled the averted tragedy. Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels.
God also there will be a tragedy, what iss more, I am an ordinary person!
It was a homemade Shakespearean tragedy being played out among our own pasteboard pavilions.
The Japanese people will for sure learn many lessons from the earthquake and tsunami tragedy, but what lessons should they and we learn about nuclear power? Times, Sunday Times
Yes, I know the Internet is a jungle, but as the writer above puts it, life continues to be a "ceaseless struggle to extract moments of goodness and purity from a world of tragedy. Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
Although our news media are very remiss in educating the public on the great economic tragedy now unfolding, they do unwittingly disclose some frightening facts.
Disappointment means that things haven't worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very simple: Stand up and walk! Cut the tragedy because our limited time must always be used for the forward movements! Mehmet Murat ildan
Zimbabwe is a tragedy unfolding before our very eyes. Times, Sunday Times
It was the tragedy that must have unhinged him, people said. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
She was too exhausted and distressed to talk about the tragedy.
Government that enforces obedience to regulation in this world of ours is a necessity but also a tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
Trueman's especial tragedy was to make public the bitterness that he felt at the passing of his youth.
But far from a happy trip down memory lane, her memories of Ventry are coloured by sadness and tragedy.
It's been a banner week in a country which has suffered an inordinate amount of tragedy over the last month.
She said the tragedy had brought the tight-knit community even closer together.
It would be a manifest tragedy if remembering was forgotten, because society was forgotten. Times, Sunday Times
This is an urban tragedy that needs concrete action, not just concern.
The morning after the awful tragedy flowers and cuddly toys were left outside the house by people who did not know the family personally.
In France, tragedy was elevated on her loftiest buskin.
However, for the 100,000 or so Aborigines (50,000 of them under the age of twenty) who are living mostly in remote or extremely remote communities, the story is one of unrelieved tragedy and horror.
I am as always slightly awed by the sheer tragedy and futility of it all.
The government's response was to distance itself from the tragedy, claiming repeatedly that the boat had sunk in Indonesian waters.
Most people in the country have been touched by unthinkable tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
This latest tragedy merely confirms my view that the law must be tightened.
Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music. Lucretia — Complete
an Elizabethan tragedy admissive of comic scenes
Our comic play was a burlesque of a Shakespearean tragedy.
The tragedy changed football stadiums, but it has become a horrible history consigned to the past. Times, Sunday Times
All I could understand from her story was that she had been closely connected with “la maison de M. Andrieux — hautes nouveautés, articles de Paris, etc.,” and perhaps was one of the family of la Maison de M. Andrieux; but she had somehow been torn for ever from M. Andrieux, par ce monstre furieux et inconcévable, and that was the point of the tragedy .... A Raw Youth
Officers investigating the tragedy said the car crashed into a tree and no other vehicle was involved.
Dorset Police said its investigation into the tragedy would look at whether there were any grounds for criminal proceedings.
It's difficult to grasp the sheer enormity of the tragedy.
Perhaps if she and her parents could have had the help and support needed it might have gone a long way in preventing this tragedy from happening.
It was a mournful pair that hired a boat to take them to Saltash and acquaint the Lee family of the tragedy.
Nevertheless, the novel is there, with its boundless substance, and the reader finds a certain solace in the heightened awareness which he acquires from the inevitable element of tragedy inherent in all life. Nobel Prize in Literature 1937 - Presentation Speech
It's the second tragedy to stun the people of Kilkenny this week.
I mean tragedy in the classical sense in which the hero's misery is embedded in his triumph.
There are economic incentives to commodify your tragedy, and that she did it is not surprising.
It was your evil negligence that led to this avoidable tragedy, and… aargh, you can write the rest as well as I can.
Zimbabwe is a tragedy unfolding before our very eyes. Times, Sunday Times
More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania.
Yet this very tragedy, in spite of its author's protestations, is nothing more than a rifacimento of Racine's drama, and rather infelicitous at that, though it must be admitted that Mendes' style is of classic purity, and some of his scenes are in a measure characterized by vivacity of action. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
Each death is a tragedy with devastating life changing effects on the families of the children killed.
That said, it is still an enjoyable evening - both comedy and tragedy certainly have their moments.
It's absurd things like that that balance the movie off its pain-film miserableness; this is a really funny movie, despite the constant stream of tragedy, loss, degradation and soul-shattering identity crisis its characters undergo.
Here at last we have all the drama, tragedy, pathos and humour those courtroom appearances produced.
LEAD (9) [STEPHEN GRACE] 22, a fairly normal young man, intelligent, sensitive, down-to-earth, a bit shy (he thinks he has the social skills of a 15 year old) but appealing, Stephen is a film student who's had a fairly average life, with the exception of the tragedy of his older brother's death in a car accident seven years ago. Undefined
It must be an absolute tragedy for people to know that the language of their forefathers and foremothers would possibly be lost.
Rymer's Edgar is cited as evidence that the critic of tragedy couldn't write one himself.
Comedy, tragedy, love, death, the spiritual and the bawdy are all represented.
The paradoxical tragedy of knowing this, condemns him to being given to the terrorists by his stepfather, assuring his silence this way.
Martin recollected his blank-verse tragedy, and sent it instead. Chapter 43
That purging of emotions that drama, especially tragedy, is supposed to inspire.
It would be a tragedy if the increased use of video led to deafblind people becoming less and less able to access the web. Archive 2008-02-01
All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.
The likelihood of suffering tragedy increases with a hubristic belief that we have everything under control.
As soon as news of the tragedy was announced, shock waves spread rapidly to all parts of the country.
The Red Arrows aerobatic team had to take emergency action to avoid a tragedy when a microlight aircraft strayed into its airspace at Elvington Airshow, the RAF revealed today.
The sputtering of the economy over the past 18 months now has been overshadowed by terror and tragedy.
I can feel depressed and sad enough just knowing about tragedy in a generalized sense.
In order to understand this tragedy,our teacher asked us to role-play.
Indeed, two of them were not even involved in the demonstrations that resulted in the tragedy but were peacefully walking across campus when they were gunned down.
The plight of Mountain Rivera is a common tragedy, repeated in familiar ways time and time again.
And this, the first yahrzeit of that tragedy and the season of the High Holy Days, is an appropriate time to rebuild our selves.
‘African countries have worked rapidly and effectively to eradicate polio; now the tragedy is that many of them are becoming reinfected,’ Dr Heymann said.
She said her father was leading the horse on a long rein when tragedy struck on Sunday. The Sun
The tragedy he mentioned took place in January.
Beyond the tragedy of a brave man's death two aspects of this case sadden me.
The construction noise had made him irritable, and a nanny had taken him to visit his grandparents at their villa in nearby Fiesole several hours before the tragedy. The Poet Prince
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
Though the libretto is not very carefully written, it is better than the average performances of this {177} kind, and with poetical intuition Schefsky has refrained from the temptation, to make it turn out well, as Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer has done in her play of L'orle, which is a weak counterpart of Auerbach's village-tragedy. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
The coroner described the crash as one of unspeakable tragedy.
Part of this whole tragedy was his fault if not all of it and the only way to redemption was to save the innocent life of one boy even at the cost of his own.
He suffered massive brain damage in the soccer ground tragedy.
The play was a tragedy, but the acting was laughable.
Ancient French tragedy, red-heeled, patched, and be-periwigged, lies in the grave; and it is only the ghost of it that we see, which the fair Jewess has raised. The Paris Sketch Book
The finale of Unforgiven is as much a tragedy for the survivors as for those who bite the dust.
To appreciate the significance of the lyrical origin of tragedy, we must first elucidate lyric poetry as such.
You can truffle out some tragedy in the daffiest comedies. The Times Literary Supplement
Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels.
The catastrophe of a tragedy usually brings death or ruin to the leading character.
Thus, the best form of tragedy is one that represents ‘terrible and piteous events’ that befall good and undeserving people.
This alternately harrowing and touching story of tragedy and hope has been impressing viewers and critics for years, and the prospect of witnessing this true-life horror story on the big screen is cause for excitement.
Episode three revolves around a prank that goes horribly wrong and appears to have brought tragedy - tinged with jubilation - in its wake. Times, Sunday Times
What politician is going to call what the public perceives to be a well-meaning group of tragedy-stricken widows a gang of frauds and liars?
The Papanicolaou test for cervical cancer detection: a triumph and a tragedy.
Compulsory microchipping will not prevent that sort of tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
Air crash investigators said engine failure may have been one of the factors to blame for the tragedy that unfolded near Hemingbrough.
The rat, who, arguably, has been the cause of near tragedy, scarpers.
The tragic nature of Eugene O Neill splays is deeply influenced by the ancient Greek tragedy, the expressionism of Strindberg, and O Neill sown experience.
Contrary to popular belief , he was not responsible for the tragedy.
Somewhat bewildered, they abandoned the search and the world heard about yet another maritime tragedy.
Additional bloodshed and loss of life will only compound the tragedy.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Socrates
The incident could have ended in tragedy.
Sentimental comedy possesses several characteristics that are incompatible with the classic concept of tragedy and the tragic hero.
The greatest tragedy of the overseas democratic movement is that your ‘own people’ are often your most deadly enemy.
Every tragedy makes heroes of common people.
And would the pope issue edicts blaming the United States for bringing the whole tragedy upon itself?
It would be a manifest tragedy if remembering was forgotten, because society was forgotten. Times, Sunday Times
The tragedy offers an opportunity to heal the rift between the United States and the UN and bridge the Atlantic divide.
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss. Jonathan Safran Foer
Are the networks just sensationalizing another tragedy with a female victim?
In 1921 Maitland's previously brilliant career ended in misfortune and tragedy.
The tragedy is that statisticians and pollsters take these pathetic twits seriously.
He has seen first hand the tragedy of lives blighted by unemployment. The Sun
These forms, which we may call form G, are exemplified in literature by the forms of the sonnet or of tragedy with the “three unities” (place, time, and action); in music, the forms of the fugue or sonata; in architecture, the peripteros (“array of columns”) or the Ionic order; the bosquet form in Italian and French gardening; the zwiebelmuster (“onion pattern”) design in Saxon por - celain. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The report says design faults in both the vessels contributed to the tragedy.
In London, at a distance from all this tragedy of courage, I felt that I had slipped back to a lower plane; a kind of flabbiness was creeping into my blood -- the old selfish fear of life and love of comfort. Carry On Letters in War-Time
It is a tragedy for those who take the brunt and we in the Labour party will always speak for them. Times, Sunday Times
The Godfreys said yesterday it was difficult to process the information as the tragedy unfolded.
Three men who met as students had been singing university rag songs at the end of a day-long reunion when tragedy struck on a country lane, an inquest heard yesterday.
The tragedy of soldiers blinded by war is an emotive issue seldom aired in public. Times, Sunday Times
My figures go up when I speak of tragedy or use a strong polemical tone.
This sceptical dogma of "evasiveness" is generally found in alliance with some vague modern "religion" whose chief object is to strip the world of the dignity of its real tragedy and endow it with the indignity of some pretended assurance. The Complex Vision
The narrative that emerged from the cobwebs was a remarkably coherent one, a detailed panorama of Victorian and Edwardian family life, full of humour and bathos as well as drama, passion and tragedy. Hancox: All under one roof
There are several theories about this, ranging from the dull (a goat might have been the prize at the Dionysia), to the moderately convincing (goats may once have been sacrificed to choral song, which evolved into tragedy as we know it, like in Antigone, etc.), to the highly impertinent (choral singers were young men much like goats in that they were hairy, smelly, and licentious). Small joys « paper fruit
The history of the Cherokee is rich and full of outrageous tragedy.
This would be a tragedy because the bezoar is a resilient wild species that crosses readily with domestic goats, and it could pass on its genetic inheritance for heat, drought, and cold tolerance: disease resistance; and other survival qualities. 1 Microcattle
The tragedy is that her worst nonsense devalued the nuggets of real value in her campaigns. Times, Sunday Times
Through analyses of some mistranslation sin Chinese version of American Tragedy, this article discusses the basis of these two wrong concepts and translator's method and manner in translation.
He learned of the tragedy before his current team, the London rugby union side Wasps where he is defensive coach, played a top-level game.
The sirens of an ambulance screamed on the way to the hospital, alerting everyone that a tragedy had occurred.
He shows us what was so special about the tragedy of the 20th century and the uniqueness of its crisis.
Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels.
Costs were irrelevant. Which brings me to what may turn out to be the tragedy of this election.
That would be a tragedy for Parliament and the people who place their trust in us, who see us as their last protection from the unfettered power of an untrammelled executive, when we have no written constitution.
You should see that as your editorial responsibility as well as your civic duty in this time of national tragedy.
Now I can look back on the whole tragedy from a distance of forty years.
This deformity alone was a tragedy to one like Michelangelo who loved everything beautiful, yet must go through life knowing himself to be ill-favoured.
As the identities of the missing emerge, we move from a statistical body count to the tragedy of human loss - brothers, mothers, lovers and daughters cruelly blown away as they headed to work.
Why, writing a tragedy himself, with a judgment far different from that exhibited in his panegyrical preface, he totally rejects, and therefore tacitly condemns and abjures the use of prose-poetry. Review
She works without irony as a loss adjustor, hired by an insurance company to put a figure on the reparation of loss in times of accident and tragedy. Letting Go « Tales from the Reading Room
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Charlie Chaplin
But far from a happy trip down memory lane, her memories of Ventry are coloured by sadness and tragedy.
The tragedy is visible here in the writing and it was audible in his voice. Times, Sunday Times
Within hours of the tragedy happening, an emergency rescue team had been assembled.
For too many, the story ends in heartbreak and tragedy. Wayne Pacelle: Not All Race Horses Have A Hollywood Ending
She bucks two trends that have come to annoy me in current fiction -- jumping around with the timeline to seem arty while really just making the reader struggle to keep things straight and what I dubbed "grief porn" in an essay last summer -- the kind of emotional manipulation that employs tragedy to keep women readers in particular sucked in. Nancy Doyle Palmer: This Summer's Perfect State of Wonder
Giles set in motion a train of events which would culminate in tragedy.
Form as a sort of genre, including epic poetry, tragedy and fiction.
The catastrophe of a tragedy usually brings death or ruin to the leading character.
For Ben the Bucket, the Dale's demon gardener, the summer has been both a triumph and a tragedy.
“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending,” William Dean Howells said. 2009 May 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews
FREDERICK, MD - For one Frederick family, the tragedy that hit Haiti has also hit home. Your4state.com News Feed
Of all the peculiar effects of musical tragedy, the most remarkable is the coexistence of opposite impressions.
The tragedy and drama of this music have rarely been so harrowingly delivered on disc. Times, Sunday Times
Her own instincts told her that the earl was a complex individual, formed by a tragedy and by the isolation of his home. One Night in Scotland
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.
The great tragedy ended in farce. Times, Sunday Times
The thong is imprinted with yellow comedy and tragedy masks and the words “The Original Mardi Gras” (because Alabamians think their celebrations preceded those in Louisiana). 2009 February 16 « One-Minute Book Reviews
They'd tell of a tragedy on the cliffs, a death that wasn't what it had seemed to be.
This is an urban tragedy that needs concrete action, not just concern.
The tragedy is, we are turning a large number of potentially decent young people into misfits and criminals. Times, Sunday Times
The Rwandan genocide was a human tragedy on a scale rarely seen in recent history.
The great tragedy ended in farce. Times, Sunday Times
His life has been wrecked by the tragedy.
Her tragedy was that she was consumed by the creature she created.
Their use many centuries later in sentimental comedy or bourgeois tragedy was purely artificial.
Her face, pale and lined, drained of life, speaks of some unvoiced tragedy, as if she's whispering to her party leadership, ‘I said all I was asked to say and still you cast me aside.’
The author seems uncertain whether he is writing a comedy or a tragedy, so the play falls between two stools.
We mustn't rerun the tragedy of last year.
The duo play a medieval knight and his squire who, after a terrible tragedy, are sent through time to the future. The Sun
Much of the tragedy of the story can be traced to the unhappy childhood of Luke and Leia; with their mother dead, Luke has no focus for his sexual desires during the phallic stage of his development.
Some awareness of road safety as a result of the weak, staged scenes irreparable tragedy.
I pity such detractors, because if their spirits were not massively moved by the tragedy of a great hero expiring on the battlefield, they must be blocks of stones.
'Well, it is an old and worn argument -- that about the inexpedience of tragedy -- and much may be said on both sides. The Hand of Ethelberta
The Palestinian tragedy was authored here in the building in which I write.
Complacency could easily result in tragedy.
Conversely our tragedy is that we can never know fully the other: we can never put ourselves in her place, experience her experiences, understand her in her concrete particularity, in those unique, unrepeatable situations.

How To Use Tragedy In A Sentence

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