Sentence examples for disastrous tragedy from inspiring English sources

By Michelle Nijhuis May 15, 2014 In the nineteen-thirties, the literary theorist Kenneth Burke proposed what he called the "comic frame" — the view, he wrote, of "human antics as a comedy, albeit as a comedy ever on the verge of the most disastrous tragedy".

Sometimes people will give advice with the best of intentions that turns out, in hindsight, to have been disastrous; that's a tragedy but not a sin.

Had any of them bothered to do that in 2006, 2007 and 2008 — when most of the disastrous loans were made — this tragedy could have been avoided.

"There's no denying that when the Latex Foam plant burned down, the tragedy joined a long history of disastrous events that have contributed to economic hardship in the Naugatuck Valley," Mr. Purcell added.

Meanwhile, one good turn leads to another until a movie in need of a disastrous turn of events invents a jarringly fabricated tragedy to set up its feel-good conclusion.

The Newtown school shooting tragedy turned social media channels into another disastrous rumor mill.

But not far enough, and that's the tragedy that Romney carries so lightly, at disastrous cost to society, as Benjamin Wallace-Wells' remarkably understanding, almost empathetic, portrait of "The Romney Economy" makes clear.

It is estimated that without protective measures in place, it would be extinct within a decade; and that extinction would be "not only a tragedy in itself but may have unforeseen, and potentially disastrous, consequences for the functioning of the vegetation communities of which feather-leaved banksia is an integral part".

This tragedy, sadly, is all too characteristic of the Administration's disastrous foreign-policy drift.

Bush himself described his disastrous tenure as "joyous" and there is barely a hint of personal tragedy or even discomfort in his legacy.

While there are many actors in this story, the Michael Jackson tragedy is foremost a tale of the abysmal ethical choices, disastrous professional judgment and horrendous medical practices of a trusted caretaker.