Sentence examples for private tragedy from inspiring English sources

The unspoken, private tragedy of Jimmy Hill's decline had stretched over very many months.

He has talked openly and generously about his private tragedy for two reasons.

Sixty years ago, the birth of an intellectually disabled child was viewed as a private tragedy.

It's a private tragedy, a social critique and the darkest of dark comedies.

But if it is a private tragedy not a public one, it is a tragedy nonetheless.

The larger situation is certainly a public one; the individual case is in every case a private tragedy.

These were his private tragedies.

It got to me because there was a real sense of these violent private tragedies.

After all her private tragedies certainly towered above the dramas in which she starred.

Yet the most obvious thing to say about true-crime documentaries is something that, surprisingly often, goes unsaid: they turn people's private tragedies into public entertainment.

Some of the women Tamblyn's work canvasses – like Marilyn Monroe and Carole Lombard – are well-known to American audiences, their failings catalogued in the numerous biographies and television specials their private tragedies inspired.