Are innocent white deaths somehow more tragic because we wonder what he or she could have gone on to do?
We tend to discount that which is accidental as somehow less tragic, less interesting, less newsworthy than the mayhem of agency.
This odd child talks in parables, appears to watch humanity with sad weariness and somehow instigates tragic events wherever he goes.
But their visible aging happens under the microscope, and seems somehow more tragic since they toil in a business built on youthful rebellion, and contrasts so sharply with our shared cultural images of them, frozen in youthful glory.
It could just be a bad cosmic joke, but Schneider seems to want us to believe it's something more tragic, somehow involving race, that defeats even the love and good will of the people here.
If a pigeon somehow survived a tragic accident in which it lost its feathers, wings, and beak, we would probably agree that it was still a pigeon.
The focus stays unflinchingly on Senna, building a connection that makes the tragic ending somehow shocking all over again.
"It's in the air whenever we are all together – profound and horrifically tragic, yet somehow all of it unspoken.
Neither unfunnily comic nor unconvincingly tragic, it somehow conveys the idea that she's had a laugh writing it, and a big belly laugh at that.
"He is a tragic person, somehow," said Lokman Slim, the co-director of a documentation and research center in Beirut who had interviewed Mr. Shaftari as part of a film about Lebanese attitudes toward the war.
