Sentence examples for hard tragic from inspiring English sources

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The hard, tragic truth is that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is locked in a cycle of violence in which assassinations, suicide bombings and mutual demonization seem destined only to grow, feeding the sense of victimhood that is consuming both the Jewish state and any future Palestinian state.

Diana Mandell Bellevue, Wash., Sept. 27, 2009 • To the Editor: Re "Fed Up With War" (column, Sept. 26): If Bob Herbert thinks Americans are tired of the war in Afghanistan — a "long, hard, tragic and expensive campaign... with no promise of ultimate victory, or even a serious definition of what would constitute victory" — they should know that the troops are fed up, too.

President Obama may be reconsidering his idea of substantially increasing the number of American troops, but no one at the higher echelons of government is suggesting that anything other than a long, hard, tragic and expensive campaign lies ahead — with no promise of ultimate victory, or even a serious definition of what would constitute victory.

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And perhaps today's heatedly divided societies will learn from Chile before they have to learn the hard and tragic way from their own errors.

Captures the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting victories experienced since then.

We have really tried to get the spectrum, especially in the book, but I think what imprints itself on people, for some reason — [are] the sad, or the hard, or the tragic experiences".

Or am I rather forced to make some hard, perhaps even tragic choices between two functionings which both reflect basic needs and basic moral duties?

When I look at all the Republican frontrunners and even President Obama it's not hard to find tragic flaws in their character, things that they've done that you wouldn't accept if someone did that to you.

Although we often don't remember our promises to love for "better or worse" during the "worse" parts, the lack of intention towards preserving our loving relationships when things are hard is a tragic mistake that can slow our recovery in ways we can't imagine.

The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture.

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