Sentence examples for a specific tragedy from inspiring English sources

Even without a specific tragedy or calamity to respond to, pressures and critical issues always lie just below the surface.

During his last stretch on the lam, Guzmán ran an organization that was responsible for tens of thousands of murders — each one a specific tragedy for the bereaved.

And almost all the time it tries to envelop existence in one large monochrome blanket, grappling with birth, love, pain, friendship, madness and death in such universal terms that to wallow in a specific tragedy -- and Mr. Taylor has faced many over the years -- is to commit a sin of solipsism.

Opportunities for choice do not necessarily have to be related to a specific tragedy or traumatic current event.

"That piece was born out of a lifetime of this dysfunctional relationship between African-Americans and America — not anything that happened within the last four or five years," Biggers told me, declining to identify "Laocoön" as a response to any specific tragedy.

But we ought to be very careful about pointing to any circumstance or any specific tragedy and say that this thing has happened because this is God's direct punishment".

A very specific tragedy.

People suffer as a result, but not because God has willed this specific tragedy to occur.

Am I trying to prove that this specific tragedy happened to this specific baby and in fact has nothing at all to do with anything that could in any way happen to my baby?

The specific tragedy that lies in the background may not register with children, which means they will be touched by the film's sadness without being too upset by it.

Before any politicians, corporations or citizens get too excited and feel any urge to celebrate a positive social response to last month's Charleston massacre, we must remember that a range of organizations have addressed only the first part of the problem of this specific tragedy.