Sentence examples for collective tragedy from inspiring English sources
In the midst of this collective tragedy, the romance resumes.
"But it is Mr. Soderbergh's insistence on seeing the A.D.M. scandal as a collective tragedy rather than as another white-collar crime that gives the movie force, resonance, feeling.
In fact, what happens when the suffering is so common that tens of thousands of New Yorkers probably experienced it this very morning and the plot of their collective tragedy could be summarized like this: Hero hurries into subway station, hero sees train, runs for train, misses train.
The collective tragedy -- seeing a town and its workers destroyed -- resonates today.
The Guilty Remnant find a cruel solace in ensuring nobody ever forgets the collective tragedy, and in Season 2 we saw their presence almost wholly distilled down to the singularly toxic figures of Patty Levin and Meg Abbott.
But, unsurprisingly, as I walked around – past people shaving and topping up their mobile phones – I couldn't ignore a sense of collective tragedy, something unavoidable when you group together thousands of people whose lives have been completely overturned.
But the collective tragedies of thousands are difficult for even the most empathetic among us to take in.
But the considered way that fans, so often derided as unthinking lemmings, reacted to these personal and collective tragedies was truly remarkable.
It's an example of what ecologist Garrett Hardin termed the "tragedy of the commons," in which pursuing individual self-interest (or, in this case, institutional self-interest) leads to collective disaster.
Where a male director might have selected five ready-for-my-close-up babes for the roles, Sofia Coppola has managed to cast and direct them as a collective, girls whose tragedy is precisely that they never had a chance to become remarkable or individual.
Yet even as we are still learning and processing, there are already some things we can learn as individuals and as a collective from this tragedy.
