Sentence examples for mostly tragedy from inspiring English sources

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Back in 1969, her husband, Donald Crowhurst, was the protagonist of the strangest, most disturbing story of its time, part adventure, part mystery, but mostly tragedy.

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The Sri Lankan estate is tied mostly to tragedy.

It is a chronicle, mostly, of tragedy and horror, rendered in bright, happy colors.

As many as 22 veterans commit suicide each day, according to the VA's 2012 suicide data report, amounting to what could be described as a slow and mostly invisible tragedy.

As a dramatist, Hauch wrote mostly historical tragedies about men of destiny Bajazet (ruler of the Ottoman Empire), Tiberius, and Gregor den Syvende (Pope Gregory VII), all in 1828 and about great Danish figures such as the king Svend Grathe (1841) and Marsk Stig (1850), an outlaw nobleman (sometimes compared to Robin Hood) exiled for his part in the murder of a king.

Metropolitan Life said yesterday that it expected to pay claims of as much as $460 million on lives lost in the tragedy, mostly covered by group insurance paid for by corporations.

Naevius's attempts at satire were audacious enough to land him in prison, which is probably why the noted poet Quintus Ennius, who followed him as a dramatist, limited himself to safe adaptations of Greek tragedies, mostly those of Euripides.

Seneca (4 bce–65 ce) wrote at least eight tragedies, mostly adaptations of Greek materials, such as the stories of Oedipus, Hippolytus, and Agamemnon, but with little of the Greek tragic feeling for character and theme.

Rohlfs, a Brooklyn native, had studied engineering at Cooper Union around 1870 and then started designing stove parts for a living while acting part time, mostly in Shakespearean tragedies.

But the real tragedy involved mostly nameless people in North America, the indigenous Tlingits and Aleuts, who bore the brunt of the Russians' arrival.

References to the syrinx are mostly absent from extant tragedy until the late fifth century BC, when the instrument suddenly starts appearing in Euripides' plays, especially in the choral odes.

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