Sentence examples for great travesty from inspiring English sources

No great travesty has been perpetrated.

In the locker room down the corridor, Hardaway's Knicks counterpart was told of the supposed great travesty.

"For Pittsburgh not to have such a celebrated orchestra would be a great travesty," Mr. Jansons said.

"Of course, we shouldn't forget the people who fell in World War One, but acknowledge from the great travesty of that period that we have now an opportunity to build for peace.

Thousands are gathering right now to raise their voices against the great travesty that occurred tonight in the Senate.

It would be a great travesty and shame to the reputation of the UN, exposing the global body to more public ridicule, if Mr. Kutesa is elected to the Presidency on June 11 when the 193 member nations vote.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, May 14 , 1932P. 9 This is hardly the time to do honor to George Washington; there is nothing in his character that lends itself to the present situation, and the Bryant Park Federal Hall is one of the great travesties of the day.

But one of the great travesties of the universities has been to undermine democratic literacy: "Democracy was no longer seen as the sharing of a common fund of textual knowledge but as providing access to this or that super-educated grouping.

In "The Iliad" there is no greater travesty than dishonoring the dead.

It would be an even greater travesty were he to then enjoy the proceeds of his crimes".

"The greatest travesty to come out of MOCA's current financial crisis would be for it to sell any of its artworks to cover operating deficits — an action that would be anathema for a museum," he said.