Sentence examples for a few tragic from inspiring English sources

And Romantic composers from Schumann and Chopin to Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler did in fact produce much of their very best creative work in precisely such a state of exaltation, in a few tragic instances (e.g., Schumann and Wolf) to the ultimate detriment of their sanity.

In a few tragic cases children created using ART have been unwanted, raising questions of responsibility and the just role of family law.

The Twin Towers of NYC took years of sweat, intelligence, time and effort to build and were destroyed in a few tragic hours.

With a few tragic exceptions, a child born almost anywhere today can expect to grow up healthier, wealthier and smarter than at any other time in history.

In some cases, what seemed to be a gun turned out to be a fake gun: a BB gun, an air gun, and -- in a few tragic instances -- a toy gun held by a teenager.

A few tragic examples: Freed Liberian slaves from the early 1800s who migrated back to Africa had mortality rates of 1.68 years for men and 2.23 years for women.

You were the nine-car-pile-up-with-a-few-tragic-deaths and I was the passer by who should not be gawking, but how could I not gawk at a sight like that?

Rather than increase fear of crime by flagging up the few tragic cases in which someone on bail committed a serious offence, it would be more helpful for him to turn his attention to those held on remand who are, as it turns out, unjustly imprisoned.

There are more monologues, some boastful, a few semi-tragic, most of them routine ego splurges straight out of central casting.

This all arises from the media frenzy over what we are now calling "coward punches" – a few assaults with tragic consequences that have provoked outrage in certain quarters.

While there have been a few highly publicized tragic shootings on college campuses in recent years, over the last 10 years the average yearly rate of homicide on college campuses has been approximately 1 per 1 million students.