Sentence examples for a somewhat tragic from inspiring English sources

This tends to make him, in the final reckoning, a somewhat tragic figure.

The trilemma is often presented as a somewhat tragic choice: countries cannot have everything they might want.

He said that Mr. Nixon was a somewhat tragic figure because he was "very bright, exceptionally intelligent".

As American migrations go, it's not exactly the shame of a nation, but it's at least a somewhat tragic turn of events — a trail of torn trifecta tickets — that many of New York City's most devoted horseplayers have been left to indulge their passion in New Jersey.

One Book Called Ulysses, becoming a kind of spokesman for the American lay reader, not only helping to give people wide access to the book but also offering a guide in appreciating it as "a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary on the inner lives of men and women".

In a description given by an anonymous high-ranking GRU official, Kosygin is described as "a lonely and somewhat tragic figure" who "understood our faults and shortcomings of our situation in general and those in our Middle East policy in particular, but, being a highly restrained man, he preferred to be cautious".

All told, this lot might gather perhaps 15% of the vote.Then there is Lech Walesa, the former president, who is running again, this time with the somewhat tragic air of a punch-drunk boxer returning to the ring.

A collection of vignettes that are somewhat tragic, the song is punctuated with the phrase "I'd love to turn you on" -- either a reference to drugs or the need to tune in to the Beatles' message.

Unlike the errant tiger in "The Hangover," which is only truly funny because it belongs to Mike Tyson, which also makes it somewhat tragic, the alligators are a genuinely madcap touch.

A lot of very famous writers lived rather interesting (and somewhat tragic and scandalous) lives, it's always interesting to hear about, and it might provide more meaning to their words.

It is therefore somewhat tragic that we have at this crucial time a government whose main quarrel with the pre-recession status quo is that the state was too large.