Sentence examples for a random tragedy from inspiring English sources
At another moment, the killing of an archduke might have been a random tragedy without global repurcussions.
Just as in Amores Perros, the previous film by Arriaga and Iñárritu, and their subsequent star-studded blockbuster Babel (2006), 21 Grams dealt with the overlapping, strangely myriad connections between three characters who - if their lives had not become intertwined through a random tragedy - would not otherwise have met.
In outline, The Beginner's Goodbye, the story of a man coming to terms with the death of his wife, reads like a Tyler inventory: the Baltimore setting; the limp (literally) male narrator, with a slightly eccentric job in publishing; the uneasy marriage between two opposites; a random tragedy that propels the protagonist towards self-knowledge and change.
Sadly, this isn't a random tragedy.
Susento doesn't think it was a random tragedy.
Still, it is Jorge's death that draws the novel's disparate figures into a sort of causal web, as those who knew him try to impose meaning on this random tragedy by turning it into a question of justice, an attempt to name the party or parties responsible and mete out punishment.
While school shootings have become a part of life in the United States, no random tragedy on the scale of the Ikeda rampage had ever struck a Japanese school.
If the book's first half winningly sets up the foibles and eccentricities of a cheerfully dysfunctional family, its second must chart the consequences of significant random tragedy.
McEwan replied that memories are what make us and drive us, and it is by learning to cope with random tragedy that we develop as humans.
There are few paragraphs in all literature that more succinctly describe the random tragedy of war than Colonel Cathcart's form letter of condolence: "Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs. ____: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded or reported missing in action".
