Sentence examples for a tragedy as from inspiring English sources

Compensating victims' families in a tragedy as big as the collapse of Rana Plaza would strain the resources of a poor country like Bangladesh.

(The only neighbor whose privacy he respects is a woman whose granddaughter disappeared at age 12, a tragedy as bad as his own).

Remove the monstrosity from Alexandra and Chance, and you also remove the potential for "Sweet Bird" to be a tragedy as well as a melodrama.

"This was a tragedy as far as those killed and injured," Chief McCracken said, "but it could have been a lot worse".

Russians love a tragedy as much as a conspiracy, and the fire at the old riding-school near the Kremlin, just after voting closed in Russia's presidential election, was both.

For "Art," by design, is not so much about art as it is about friendship, and though it has been insistently labeled as a comedy, the playwright has called it a tragedy as well.

It is an American tragedy as well.

Sending fathers into military zones has been a tragedy for as long as war has been around.

Mr. Albarn, in an interview, described the opera's story not as a tragedy but as "a melancholy".

The writer's friendship with Naipaul gave his writing a comic tone; he began to see Africa through Naipaul's eyes--not as a tragedy but as farse.

"I don't look at this as a tragedy, but as a total opportunity," he said.