I think people are making it out to be something that is more tragic than it really was.
"Julia and I have a similar sensibility of sometimes the only way to deal with something that could be really tragic and depressing is if you can somehow look on the funny side of it," Ms. Sobule said.
The nation saw Columbine as a turning point in school security, but also as an anomaly, something that resulted from the tragic combination of mental illness and a lack of awareness of the danger.
Mr. Johnson compared her political future to that of Representative Carolyn McCarthy as "someone who turned something tragic into something that is very altruistic for a lot of people".
It's a multilayered thing, bringing these two audiences together so that we have something that is playful yet sophisticated, tragic and comic, big and small.
Motion rightly said of Jacobson on Tuesday night: "He certainly knows something that Shakespeare knew – that the tragic and the funny are intimately linked".
The Sunday Times's James Agate admired the acting: "Guinness makes of the tragic libertine something that is a long way from being wholly vile," he wrote, while Richardson "gives the Inspector a stern, unangry poise far more effective than all the thunder he obviously has up his sleeve".
"Ultimately you do find incidents like that, and they are tragic and something that, obviously, we take very, very seriously, and we go back and find out why it occurred," said Shortsleeve, whose name is a translation of the French, courtemanche.
It's a very terrible, tragic portrayal of something that happens to this person.
So when we're looking at impact, the term in epidemiology that we use is "years of potential life lost". We're really talking about a tragic disease here, something that really affects the young.
The Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, said on the day of the crash that his office was "investigating whether this is just a tragic accident or something that involves some criminality".
