Sentence examples for supposed tragedy from inspiring English sources

Jen L, Cincinnati, Ohio So the supposed tragedy here is that a high school dropout, felon, with a history of drug addiction and a lack of marketable skills had trouble finding a job?

The same day Ryan campaigned in Nebraska, "This American Life" did a segment in which Ira Glass, the host, spoke about the supposed tragedy of Paul Ryan. "He exercises and he's careful about his diet and he's a policy nerd and he's polite and he's kind of proper," and yet his voters were going for someone, Trump, with the opposite qualities.

The reported death of Kekua and the Notre Dame linebacker's perseverance during the supposed tragedy was a significant story line throughout the college football season.

It's also more amoral, because we often laugh at things we aren't supposed to: tragedy, tastelessness, violence.

I suppose this tragedy does hit closer to home for those of us who use a bike as transportation in the city.

He says that the events of a tragedy are "supposed" to discharge pity and fear and are "supposed" to elevate and inspire by the triumph of noble principles at the sacrifice of the hero.

I'd had a good think about it on the trek, and understood what the playwright Yasmina Reza meant when she collected the award for comedy in Paris and said she couldn't understand why she'd won it because Art was supposed to be a tragedy.

On the other hand, we are supposed to suspect that "The Tragedy of Arthur" (or to be more precise, "The Most Excellent and Tragical Historie of Arthur, King of Britain") is a fake Shakespeare play written by a Shakespeare-loving con man.

Mrs Williams has refused to accept the inquest verdict that his death was accidental or the coroner's decision not to hear what happened to individual victims after 3.15pm on the day of the tragedy - the supposed "cut-off" time at which everyone who did die would have either died or received fatal injuries.

It's a tragedy that's supposed to lead to catharsis.

We all saw the ultimate embodiment of what comedy is supposed to do: deeply personal tragedies somehow transformed, with the enormous, necessary power of an open-hearted audience, into brilliantly-written truths that we'll all take home with us and keep with us as long as we'll have a sound-enough mind to remember that show.