Sentence examples for be a tragic thing from inspiring English sources

The sentiments of the Queen's uncle were "tantamount to treason", historian John Costello said, as the then-Duke told a reporter during the war: "It would be a tragic thing for the world if Hitler was overthrown, Hitler is the right and logical leader of the German people.

He also told a journalist that "it would be a tragic thing for the world if Hitler was overthrown".

"They see their children growing up with possibly even less education than they came with from Indonesia, and that would be a tragic thing for any parent to see – their children growing up without even the few years of schooling that they have had themselves," said Borneo Child Aid Society Director Torben Venning.

"Every ounce of his being was struggling to maintain some last vestige of dignity," Thayer said....And Thayer, who choked up himself during an interview with Ted Koppel afterward, told me, "It was a tragic thing to watch any human being have to go through that, regardless of what he did to others....My mind raced with the millions of people whose lives were destroyed".

It's a tragic thing.

It is a tragic thing that happened.

It's a tragic thing to observe, actually," she said.

"It's a tragic thing, and people are wrong to trivialize it.

"You take life, which is a tragic thing, as though it were a trivial bedroom farce".

"And that's a beautiful thing in some ways, and that's a tragic thing in other ways.

"That's a tragic thing," Piniella said.