Sentence examples for minor tragedies from inspiring English sources

That would have counted as one of the music world's minor tragedies.

Its passing, though it happens every year, because it happens every year, is one of life's minor tragedies.

It is one of the minor tragedies of American history that the country never properly embraced 'soccer', a sport that might have been best equipped to cut across some of the static and binary racial divisions of American society.

One of the minor tragedies for opera today is Mozart's "Abduction From the Seraglio," which is filled with glorious music and lamed by period humor that seems inextricable from the plot and simply isn't funny anymore.

Speyer, a naturalised British subject who also bankrolled the London underground and Scott's expeditions to the Antarctic, personified one of the minor tragedies of the war through his German background and connections.

There are few minor tragedies as sad as seeing a massed rank of immaculate waiters standing in a vast, posh restaurant which could barely be emptier if a sign saying "Our sous chef has Sars: half-price special offer" hung in the window.

It's here that the small-scale tragedies of minor names — like Danny Quebec West, Al Doctor, and Gil Coggins, known for a recording or two — loom large, as does the poignant response of the great trumpeter Roy Eldridge: "To finish my course as a radio and television technician, so as not to have to blow that horn anymore".

Then, a minor tragedy: a pedometer disappeared from Bodi's belt.

"Nobody's heard of it," he said, and he clearly regarded this fact as a minor tragedy.

KRAJESKI: The scene where he bursts into tears in front of students struck me as a minor tragedy.

That its greatest lapse affected the medals in the games' most evocative event was a minor tragedy.