Sentence examples for a less tragic from inspiring English sources

This is a less tragic situation than a grandchild orphaned or abandoned.

A less tragic tale was that of the ZMC-2, below, the first "all-metal, lighter-than-air" flying machine, which made made a 49-minute flight in August 1929.

Matt Cavenaugh's time at the Broadway revival of "West Side Story" is coming to an end, though in a less tragic manner than that of the character he plays.

Or the Twin Towers: there is something about all the talk of planes and plumes of glass-filled smoke that reminds one of the images from that disaster with, thankfully, a less tragic ending.

On a less tragic level, Mr. Leonard said, "Skin" is about "two kids in love caught between two warring families" -- Goldman's 16-year-old Jewish daughter, Jewel, played by Olivia Wilde, and Roam's 17-year-old Mexican-Irish son, Adam, played by D.J. Cotrona.

To become a hit in the United States, "The Office" not only had to transform the tragic, grating boss into a less tragic, less grating, more well-meaning boss; it had to cast off the message, central to the British original, that work is where you go to waste your life.

Would it be any less tragic if the victims in Wisconsin had been Muslims gathering for Friday prayers?

"The question is, does it make it any less tragic?" said Jonathan Greenspun, the commissioner of the Mayor's Community Assistance Unit.

But that didn't make it any less tragic.

Not because the funerals for 20 first graders will become any less real or any less tragic.

All mothers mourn in the same way, and no child's death is any less tragic than another.