Sentence examples for public tragedy from inspiring English sources

Personally, he has had to handle a public tragedy.

Racing is a reactive, not proactive, industry, which responds to threats, scandal and public tragedy.

This is the public tragedy of Dunner's sad life and violent, avoidable death.

Mr. Stone has taken a public tragedy and turned it into something at once genuinely stirring and terribly sad.

Extremely Loud dares appropriate pre-existing sentiment provoked by a great public tragedy that many hold to be sacred.

He said the affair was a "terrible personal and public tragedy" and warned against a "witch hunt".

There's a certain cynicism in the story about the idea (or practice) of building memorials for public tragedies.

Last year, researchers at the University of Colorado tried to pinpoint the moment when it stops being "too soon" to joke about public tragedies.

Since the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School (which partially converted its infamous cafeteria and library into a glassy atrium with a mural of a tree canopy on its ceiling), that question about design and public space has shadowed the protracted policy debate about these public tragedies.

Mr. Grohl, who was known for having a personality as laid-back as his drumming was explosive ("He's so easygoing, always fun to be around," the band's former bassist, Krist Novoselic, said in an e-mail message), was now permanently linked to one of rock's most public tragedies.

These public tragedies need to inspire action.