Sentence examples for desperately tragic from inspiring English sources
He was able to be funny, sometimes hilariously funny, and desperately tragic, sad, at the same time.
"We are doing everything we possibly can on this desperately tragic case".
And he's got a fascinating and desperately tragic back story – here's David Hytner talking to the new Liverpool man back in 2012.
Dogs are basically family members that you can buy, which is either a great thing or a desperately tragic one, I'm not totally sure.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "We are doing everything we possibly can on this desperately tragic case".
The man made her aware of a profound sense of absence: how "desperately lonely and tragic and unbearable it was -- being in a marriage and not having that".
They cut largely tragic figures, desperately pandering for applause under hot studio lights.
But it makes the mood here seem more absurd, pointless and tragic -- and desperately in need of change.
Let's all take a moment to reflect that the time spent reading that last sentence is the same as Davies could have spent making his point, give or take a few minutes for tie adjustment, chest puffing, hair patting, throat clearing and other mannerisms that could perhaps help make pompous and rather tragic figures feel desperately important.
The family members' horror — at the impropriety more than anything else — is at once mordantly funny and desperately sad, and it captures the quality of tragic limitation that defines all the major characters in "Cost".
