Sentence examples for general tragedy from inspiring English sources

Nobody's fault, just a general tragedy, like a car accident involving a deer, but different because 1).

Then there is the general tragedy of the absence of responsible parenting in America.

Hawke stars alongside Emily Mortimer, Hailee Steinfeld, Emile Hirsch and Asa Butterfield, and is the center of an off-kilter family dealing with an actual tragedy and also the general tragedy of growing up.

The General Slocum tragedy reshaped the city's ethnic map, accelerating the dissolution of Little Germany.

As a general rule, tragedy tends not to get invited to any universe that contains Givenchy dresses, or the features of Audrey Hepburn; but Hepburn, this time around, is notable by her absence.

And it wasn't a general evocation of tragedy, like having children from Newtown sing "America the Beautiful" with Jennifer Hudson.

"What happened at Fort Hood is a tragedy," General Casey said, "and I believe it would be a greater tragedy if diversity became a casualty here".

Though he points the finger at Russia and France (as well as the German general staff), the tragedy was the sheer irresponsibility, and complacency of governments, including the British, which dithered and sent dangerously misleading messages to each other in the weeks and days before the outbreak of war in August 1914.

Yet what he did write turned out to be a major piece of literary criticism that contributed to his general concepts about tragedy and poetry, and made a powerful impression on the poet John Keats.

"Until the Artemis tragedy, the general public really had no idea of the risks," Slyfield said.

"We are all traumatized by this terrible tragedy," Secretary General Kofi Annan said.