Before he reached the age of three, his English mother had died and his American father had simply disappeared – a pattern of abandonment that recurred throughout a life that was scarred with (frequently self-inflicted) tragedy, but also marked by an extraordinary literary productivity.
That explains the campaign to sacrifice Palestinian women and children, opening the possibility for a stray Israeli shell to inflict horrific tragedy.
Whereas mass shootings and gun violence are inflicting daily tragedy on communities across America: Now, therefore, be it.
We strain, nevertheless, to provide light as well as shade, but even when you're seeking diversion, tragedy can inflict itself.
What's disconcerting in the U.S. media is the emphasis on the war as an American tragedy, when it was truly a horrific tragedy inflicted upon the peoples of Southeast Asia (Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians).
Who could ever say exactly what such a sequence of tragedy inflicted on Teddy?
First, because Mali is an important regional player whose people want no truck with the extremist thugs who have inflicted hardship and tragedy on the nation's huge Saharan region.
I want to thank Mr. Bush for taking the trouble to go all the way to Seoul and expressing his feelings about the human tragedy inflicted upon millions of Korean people.
After surveying the vast area of mud and debris around the mountain, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, Nicaragua's defence minister, suggested the entire area be sealed off and declared a "national cemetery".The destruction around Casita was the most spectacular single tragedy inflicted by Hurricane Mitch, but it was not the only one.
"There was nothing 'happy' about the tragedy inflicted upon our country on Saturday and no permission was granted for your use of this song".
