Some places have more soul (or souls) than others, and as we sit here among the cool dirt floors and precise masonry walls of the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, I can feel that something serene and wonderful -- and likewise inevitable and tragic -- happened many centuries ago in these connected, open-sided caves some 175 feet above the canyon floor.
There is a school of thought that sees the revolution's descent from the overthrow of royalist tyranny in 1789 to the Terror of 1793 as a strangely inevitable and tragic trajectory repeated in other upheavals, most notably the Russian Revolution of 1917.
As they sifted through early accident reports, Firestone and Ford had to make hard calls about what was really going wrong, keeping in mind that in a million-vehicle fleet, some number of accidents are inevitable, however tragic that fact may be.
It's inevitable and tragic and really very funny.
Remember that in a child's mind, when someone is discharged from the hospital, it generally means that things are better... except for us, it meant that things were coming to an inevitable and tragic end.
Instead of being seen as evidence of overwhelming and disproportionate force by a callous occupier, Israel wanted all of this to be seen as the inevitable and tragic consequence of what the very evil Hamas "forced" the very moral Israel to do.
From an African perspective, the inevitable and tragic consequences of rabies require serious reflection of the factors that continue to drive its neglect.
As Paul and Mae grow invisible to the others, like ghosts, bitter and despised, the second plot uncoils: the slow, tragic, inevitable ruin of their marriage.
Both camps agree that the conception of tragedy turns on a number of distinctions - "between fate and chance, free will and destiny, inner flaw and outer circumstance, the noble and the ignoble, blindness and insight, historical and universal, the alterable and the inevitable, the truly tragic and the merely piteous, heroic defiance and ignominious inertia".
(The scene in which Georgia takes off all her clothes to illustrate the difference between nakedness and the vulnerability of intimacy seems thuddingly gratuitous.) In the end Lesnewski comes to the same sad end as the man who inspired the playwright to create him, but it feels inevitable rather than tragic and overdue rather than much too soon.
