Sentence examples for a tragic bit from inspiring English sources

These days we remember Doctor Dolittle as a tragic bit of studio taxidermy: the film that leaked sawdust from its ears, almost bankrupt Fox and threw Hollywood into crisis.

"Wang Fandi, whose 19-year-old son Wang Nan was killed while taking photos on Changan Avenue on June 4 , 1989 said that from an historical perspective, Chen had been only a tragic bit player in the crackdown," the newspaper wrote.

But things took a tragic turn.

Her novel, SERIOUSLY (Little, Brown, $23.95), is full of elements that might be found in any first novel: a yearning young narrator who's a bit at sea; a tragic family history; a brush with romance; a discovery of vocation.

Looking back, I now feel I had a bit part in a tragic drama whose ending had been scripted in Washington long before people at my level got involved.

Nate Jones wrote for Time magazine, "There are no landmark surprisesJay Leno comes off as affably opportunistic, Conan O'Brien as a tragic self-dramatist with a little bit of a martyrdom complexbut it's a worthwhile look at the procedural negotiations that led to last winter's messy divorce".

Yes, of course this will be the Christmas of the Kindle and the iPad; and yes, more electronic equipment will probably change hands in the next 24 hours than in the rest of the year combined, but the 25th December is still a day when even those of us who obsess about technology for a living feel a bit tragic when we check our email or log on to Twitter.

"It's a bit tragic, in a way," Van Zandt says during a new documentary film examining the making of Darkness, "because he would have been one of the great pop-song writers of all time".

A tragic, tragic accident," he said.

What a tragic paradox!

Obviously a tragic ending.