Sentence examples for grave tragedy from inspiring English sources

Tracey believed that the indigenous music of Africa was being slowly eradicated and that this was a grave tragedy, and he was right.

Rabbi Dov Lior of the settlement of Kiryat Arba, giving the funeral oration for the four victims, declared: "This is a grave tragedy for the families, for the people of Israel and the state.

From Homer's tales of Troy to Picasso's "Guernica," from Tchaikovksy's "Pathétique" to Bill T. Jones's "Still/Here," from the bloody dramas of Sophocles and Shakespeare to Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial, artists have always combated grave tragedy with grave beauty.

Mr. Mukherjee, speaking in a nationally televised address on the eve of Republic Day, the national holiday observing the enactment of India's democratic constitution, made a blunt call for gender equity and described the Dec. 16 attack on the young woman in New Delhi as a "grave tragedy that has shattered complacency".

Though it took a grave tragedy, a significant and necessary change to our ideological operating system appears to have finally been made.

"If this grave tragedy has involved some consecrated ministers, we can ask how deeply rooted it may be in our societies and in our families," Francis said.

It's full of big, splashy action sequences, but the deaths that result from them are always depicted as grave tragedies.

"If the facts are confirmed then a grave human tragedy has occurred," said Kate Gilmore, deputy executive director of the UN Population Fund.

Flippantly putting the grave environmental tragedy of it all to one side for a moment, the Deepwater Horizon oil leak isn't just causing extensive damage to the Louisiana coastline.

But which ever it is, it has been said the best music comes from grave human tragedy or passionate emotions.

"The tragedy in North Ossetia is a very grave catastrophe," President Vladimir V. Putin said in Moscow.