Her first, unpublished, novel ("the heartbreaking, tragic life of college students") was, apparently, "just gossiping.
It's a memoir, a Holocaust story, a detective story, both a rumination on and an analysis of narrative technique, a work of Old Testament and ancient Greek historiography, and a work of awful, heartbreaking, tragic suspense.
exactly that was heartbreaking tragic even!
"It's heartbreaking and tragic, but there's not much news coverage unless the circumstances are truly, truly unusual".
"We lost a young man in heartbreaking and tragic circumstances," Obama said.
In a full statement he added: "The loss of his son is heartbreaking and tragic, and our prayers are very much with the Vice President and his family".
The senseless targeting and homicide of police officers in Dallas is heartbreaking and tragic.
"Abortion later in pregnancy is very rare and often happens under heartbreaking and tragic circumstances, and like the majority of Americans, Wendy Davis believes that these personal health care decisions should be between a woman and her doctor," said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Votes.
The tragic, heartbreaking irony of it all is that Mr. Karadzic played out his historical role in less than 10 years.
He is a heartbreaking and even tragic figure, his only companion a diminutive blonde who can never return his love, and no Ma to whom he could shout that he is top of the world.
The Tour de France is a metaphor for life, Lance Armstrong tells us, because it can be "exalting and heartbreaking and potentially tragic" and it can pose "unspeakably bad luck, unthinkable beauty, yawning senselessness and, above all, a great, deep self-questioning.
