Sentence examples for minor tragedy from inspiring English sources

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.

Onions's Durham coach Geoff Cook described the injury as an "minor tragedy" for the player and England.

Ferrell, looking as dumb as a clown on a circus bike, has found a new métier: to take the materials of minor tragedy and wheel them in the direction of farce.

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

Then there are the minor tragedies that cause me deep, unrelenting angst every moment I'm awake.

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

Oddly, watching this film, with its deeply recognizable minor tragedies, and even more minor triumphs, made me feel a strange kind of hope.

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.