Sentence examples for altogether tragic from inspiring English sources
I feel it is altogether tragic and shocking to hear, after having moved to a different town, that a young lesbian acquaintance of mine -- one of those who did not join the parade -- has committed suicide.
"Gypsy" isn't entirely tragic.
Catching glimpses of Breezy Point, Queens and coastal New Jersey, is an experience altogether more tragic and strange.
The power of an altogether more profound, tragic and unforgettable image, that of the body of three-year old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi lying in shallow breakwater on a Turkish beach, has galvanised public opinion so radically compassion has become a political weapon, used to defend victims of a humanitarian emergency.
In the catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa in Alexandria, a Roman family is buried in an elaborate tomb arranged like a pedimented temple with niches for the sarcophagi, which are decorated with flower garlands and tragic masks – altogether very classical.
"Those stories tell us that the suburbs are a radiant place of great natural beauty and human promise and because of that it's all the more tragic that we can't live in that world altogether happily".
Not being able to clamber over the most impressive part of Petra may frustrate some visitors but it would be so much more frustrating - not to mention tragic - if it disappeared altogether.
The tragic irony is all too clear.
The eyes, where the skin is among the thinnest on the body, are particularly subject to environmental and dietary abuse, heredity and the tragic fact that optimistic, glass-half-full people smile altogether too much.
