The list makes no distinction between tragic and non-tragic attrition.
His was a cheerful, non-tragic nature, more interested in good than evil.
Unfortunately for Edna, life in pre-feminist Louisiana doesn't offer a non-tragic exit.
The book had what Clifton Fadiman, writing in this magazine, would later call "all the old Cain trademarks: his slightly brutal contempt for his own characters, his interest in violent extremes of conduct, his mastery of cinema-plot tricks, his non-tragic handling of tragedy".
A non-tragic ending for Yahoo may justify Mayer's means.
To this number should be added the outstanding novelist Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), whose mature writings were in English but who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.
But that J-curve dynamism often achieves its effect by creating tragic non-jobs like Deliveroo rider, or "freelance journalist".
Talented youngsters are often not encouraged to study, but are instead pressurised to marry young and have numerous children, which furthers the cycle of welfare dependence.Outsiders are often regarded with deep suspicion, referred as to gadje, meaning non-Roma, with sometimes tragic consequences.
More tangible in this context is the fact that adoptees commit four times more suicide than their non-adopted peers, a tragic and telling statistic.
QUESTION FROM GERNOT WAGNER: Will it take a tragic (but hopefully non-catastrophic event) like all polar bears dying to finally get the political stars aligned in DC for sensible climate policy?
Throw in an oil price crash, surprise non-conservative takeover, and a tragic wildfire, you have the makings of a binge-watchable Netflix drama.
