Sentence examples for exactly tragic from inspiring English sources
His death in March, 2010, of heart trouble, followed four months later by Hummel's death from cancer, was shocking and sad, but not exactly tragic — and to its credit, the movie doesn't even try to make that case.
I have, of course, heard the argument that the death of a pampered, neurotic woman famous for being pretty as much as for anything else was not exactly tragic — but isn't there room in the world for many kinds of tragedies?
The protagonist, Mark Zuckerberg, whose not-exactly-tragic flaws at 19 include arrogance, insolence and unchivalric behavior toward women (in a Harvard sophomore — imagine), winds up the founder of Facebook and, at the end of the movie, the world's youngest billionaire ever.
It's quite funny but it's also quite sad; we are both acutely aware of exactly how tragic we are.
Only many years later, when Jane is in England as a young aspiring poet, do we learn exactly how tragic this event was, and how it shaped Jane's life.
"This very sad case highlights exactly how tragic the consequences of that can be and so it's doubly important that parents – whether they're tech-savvy or not – keep the lines of communication open with their children about what they're up to online, and how to be safe".
It's not tragic, exactly, but it's so sudden and deflating.
And yet personal progress is exactly what the tragic sense of things casts into doubt.
We are working closely with Peruvian authorities to determine exactly how this tragic incident took place".
