Sentence examples for headed for tragedy from inspiring English sources
One of Mr. Rakoff's best-loved NPR performance pieces was a version of the old tale of the scorpion and the tortoise, who were headed for tragedy because each would be true to its nature despite promises to the contrary.
It isn't a spoiler to say that the story is heading for tragedy, not least because the narrative comes from the point of view of Fielding Bliss, Autopsy's son and one of the main witnesses to the events.
If we read Henry James or George Eliot, and imagined ourselves Isabel Archer or Dorothea Brooke, it meant that while an intelligent girl could put up a good fight, she was ineluctably headed for pedestrian tragedy at the hands of some deceptively worthy man (if we read Thomas Hardy, the tragedy was not so pedestrian).
And now people are wondering if American state governments are headed for their own Greek tragedy.
I headed for Connecticut.
"You're headed for paradise".
But in late December 2012, just when it seemed that Vilanova was heading for a long and glorious reign, tragedy struck with the re-emergence of the throat cancer that had seemingly been successfully treated a year earlier.
Her poems, kept in a medium-sized notebook end with a sketch headed "Stage set for a tragedy".
We see Irene and Bosinney in love, and we see tragedy heading straight for them, like the force of the sexuality that twirls them on and on.
