Sentence examples for defined by tragedy from inspiring English sources

She knows she is defined by tragedy.

"People are not defined by tragedy – tragedy is a part of the fabric of life, even appalling disasters like the one that we've experienced.

But the three highly publicized losses over 10 days in two towns defined by tragedy laid bare the painful emotional injuries that can persist long after the gunfire has stopped.

The author, a poet, channels the violence of Mary's life into spare, almost Biblical prose, and delivers a transfixing portrait of a woman who, no longer considered white and never wholly Seneca, refuses to be defined by tragedy: "I will not open these wounds again so as to satisfy anyone's idea of what it is to be human".

But, for more than two centuries, Bennelong's life has in history and literature, journalism, in stage and screen drama, and even dance, been captive to a trope that pretty much fits the paradigm of the Sydney Gazette's obituary, unflattering and defined by tragedy.

I refuse to be defined by tragedy or by a destiny not of my own choosing and with that refusal, I will choose to define who I am, who I wish to become and the legacies that I will carry forward.

The book is really a love letter to a city defined by pluck, tragedy and hedonism.

"They never wanted to be a member of a group that is defined by the tragedy of what happened".

At the evening remembrance, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan, said the city shouldn't be defined by the tragedy.

Many of the town's residents do not want to be forever defined by the tragedy, and there's a general weariness about once again being in the spotlight.

And the resolve of these survivors — who refuse to be defined by their tragedies — is inspiring.