Sentence examples for a tragic break from inspiring English sources

But for many hypersensitive Europeans, whether their nations won or lost the first world war, the war was a tragic break for European civilisation as a whole.

If allowed to stand, it would mean a tragic break in the region's 30-year "winning streak" of transition away from military rule and dictatorship.

Washington was the beneficiary of an unearned and tragic break.

Fergus (a fine performance by Womack) is a tragic figure, broken beyond recovery by his experiences.

"I've seen some pretty tragic break-ups occur," he says.

But then, like a tragic hero, Daniels broke his ankle during the Raiders' Super Bowl season of 1967 and missed an opportunity to play against the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl II.

At this point, his paintings reveal a view of the world in which the human comedy takes a tragic turn, and something breaks in the order that had kept the reasonable man and the madman separated.

The first manned Apollo flight was delayed by a tragic accident, a fire that broke out in the Apollo 1 spacecraft during a ground rehearsal on January 27 , 1967 killing all three astronauts.

Such a shootout would break open, in a tragic way, some of Montenegro's internal fissures.

Those efforts came to a tragic end Monday evening, when flames broke out inside the building in what would become the city's deadliest structure fire this year.

At 18, she endured a tragic tram accident in which she broke both her pelvis and spine, resulting in a life riddled with physical anguish, operations and addictive painkillers.