The phrase "a time of tragic" is not correct in English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and would typically need a noun to follow "tragic" to convey a complete thought.
Example: "This is a time of tragic loss for our community."
Alternatives: "a time of sorrow" or "an era of tragedy."
That year was a time of both tragic and farcical retreat: it marked the beginning of the end of the Vietnam War, a defeat that cost fifty-eight thousand American lives, and also the beginning of the long-running Watergate fiasco.
The Turkish government has resisted the characterization of a genocide, seeing the deaths as among the many tragic losses in a time of brutal conflict.
It seems easy to poke fun at both sides in a conflict that has captivated this city at a time of political uncertainty in the nation and tragic uncertainty around the world.
(His father, Thomas, a trolley driver, died when Danny was a boy). All Danny Faulkner's siblings were still alive at the time of his tragic death, but today, only two are with us: Larry and Pat.
By the time of its tragic ending, the British public were left queasy, cynical and divided.
Shortly after the outbreak of war he gave up his work at Oxford and took up that on which he was engaged at the time of his tragic" death.
At the time of his tragic overdose in January, the 28-year star seemed poised on the cusp of a lucrative film career.
I wrote about Jackson's Puer tendencies last year at the time of his tragic death.
But as I wrote at the time of the tragic death of Miriam Carey, who was shot dead last year by the Capitol Police and the Secret Service after leading them on a car chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., couldn't the police have Tasered Ford in the leg?
I don't know the details of James Holmes' state of mind at the time of the tragic shootings, but I do know there is an evolving standard of decency in this country when it comes to exposing seriously mentally ill citizens to the death penalty.
