Sentence examples for nearly tragic from inspiring English sources

It turns out that he doesn't lack self-awareness, and it's nearly tragic that he's unable to act on it.

Last year in the Book Review, Kevin Baker called this a "spellbinding" portrait with a "nearly tragic sweep".

In a letter to the composer Ned Rorem, written shortly after Bowles's (platonic) wife, the writer Jane Auer, died, Bowles expresses a nearly tragic stoicism.

Don John's plot is eventually unveiled by the bumbling constable Dogberry and his comically inept fellow constable, but not before the story of Hero has taken a nearly tragic turn.

They give the story a nearly tragic sweep -- a perspective Keneally underscores by returning regularly to Teresa, wasting away with her daughter while she waits for her husband to visit.

Mr. Kranz, who was the famous flight director on the nearly tragic Apollo 13 mission — Ed Harris played him in the 1995 movie "Apollo 13" — has still got the flattop.

But "Take Care" isn't nearly the tragic album that its form would suggest.

He's a monster, but also very nearly a tragic figure.

Cultural hand-wringing aside, actual parenting isn't nearly as tragic as it looks from a distance.

And last Tuesday evening, when the Polish-born sailor Asia Pajkowska slipped overboard from the deck of the all-woman entry, AlphaGraphics, it nearly became tragic.

Not nearly as tragic as the loss of life, but, in the long term, yet another piece of infrastructure that will need to be rebuilt yet again.