Sentence examples for specific tragedy from inspiring English sources

Even without a specific tragedy or calamity to respond to, pressures and critical issues always lie just below the surface.

During his last stretch on the lam, Guzmán ran an organization that was responsible for tens of thousands of murders — each one a specific tragedy for the bereaved.

Am I trying to prove that this specific tragedy happened to this specific baby and in fact has nothing at all to do with anything that could in any way happen to my baby?

But we ought to be very careful about pointing to any circumstance or any specific tragedy and say that this thing has happened because this is God's direct punishment".

The specific tragedy that lies in the background may not register with children, which means they will be touched by the film's sadness without being too upset by it.

"That piece was born out of a lifetime of this dysfunctional relationship between African-Americans and America — not anything that happened within the last four or five years," Biggers told me, declining to identify "Laocoön" as a response to any specific tragedy.

With exceptions, like the great social manifestoes of Woody Guthrie and his followers, listeners are able to transfer songs about specific tragedies into analogues of their own lives.

It's exactly the kind of measure that finds purchase in the wake of specific tragedies but will do little to prevent the kinds of spontaneous crimes and impulsive suicides that make up the vast majority of gun deaths.

"There is a difference between referring to specific tragedies that take place in a war – either against the Jewish or Arab population – as catastrophes, and referring to the creation of the state as a catastrophe".

Specific tragedies notwithstanding, a sampling of the comments around the Internet — including those left behind by readers of The Lede blog at nytimes.com, where I mentioned the bill last week — suggest that most people find the senator's bill a bit nanny-minded and intrusive.

The loss of any one life is a specific and unique tragedy beyond comprehension.