Sentence examples for basic and tragic from inspiring English sources
It's as basic and tragic as that.
The desperate hunt for the bombers and their associates has exposed not just the men behind the bloodshed, but a string of basic, and tragic, intelligence failures that have led some to question whether Tuesday's bloodshed could have been avoided.
But it might be better if we could first step back for a moment and ask a more basic question: why commemorate a horrific and tragic event like 9/11 at all?
Adair ran a fertilizer company that stored tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, failed to follow government safety guidelines and -- laws or no laws -- shirked his basic responsibility to prevent a foreseeable, preventable and tragic disaster.
"These staffers failed to take many of the basic and important steps in this tragic case," John B. Mattingly, commissioner of the city's Administration for Children's Services, said Wednesday.
But Hare, in both The Absence of War and Racing Demon, goes back to basic Aristotelian tragic principles by showing us a good man destroyed by a mixture of personal and societal failings.
They look strange, and tragic.
Nikiya (J'aime Crandall) is modest and tragic.
Her decline was rapid and tragic.
It is a singular and tragic case.
