"tale of tragedy" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in a sentence to refer to a story or event with a sad outcome. For example, the bombing of Hiroshima is a tragic tale that should never be forgotten.
It's a tale of tragedy and triumph, talent and dedication, love and loss, and it's all true.
Nathan Englander's "Free Fruit for Young Widows" recounts a tale of tragedy and survival during the Holocaust.
Mr. Moloney, a musician of restless curiosity, saw it as a tale of tragedy and loss, but also a chance for creative collision.
Together they have produced a tale of tragedy and revenge that is truly gripping, and all the more horrifying because this kind of thing can happen anywhere.
"They're just dogs". A former priest (Damian Alcazar) who joins the group provides the film's most emblematic tale of tragedy, and its purest display of redemption.
If it is a tale of tragedy on the government side, then on the opposition benches it is best described as farce.
Another climbing season has finished on Mount Everest, with the inevitable tales of tragedy and triumph.
Meanwhile, for something more anarchic, check out recent episodes with Judd Apatow, Parker Posey and former Minutemen guitarist Mike Watt, whose tales of tragedy and triumph are never less than absorbing.
Evil plants, high-society bugs, enigmatic cats, elegant flappers, umbrella salesmen and imaginary birds inhabit "Ukrainian Eggs: Terrible Tales of Tragedy and AlleGorey," JONATHAN RIEDEL's new work for his Riedel Dance Theater.
But the fact that executives at Bridgestone, the parent company, remained for several weeks all but inaccessible to inquiries, and then stonewalled for months, badly exacerbated the situation, especially since the media stayed with the story, featuring personal tales of tragedy accompanied by lurid photographs of crashed vehicles.
So often, via the news, we get the tales of tragedy, of the Med swallowing criminally dodgy joke-boats, and the obligatory portentous pause before moving on to a "story" about bloody Top Gear or somesuch… I don't know, Kim Kardashian's tweeting bumcrack.
