Sentence examples for tragedies experienced from inspiring English sources

The near tragedies experienced by the characters result in the ultimate health and enlightenment of the soul.

"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality," Anne Frank wrote in 1944 in her diary, which helped personalize the tragedies experienced by millions of Jews.

Even by the standards of recent tragedies experienced by my country, Monday's assassination of Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, was an anomaly.

One of the tragedies experienced by Sinatra was the death of his mother in the crash of a small plane in the San Bernardino Mountains just after takeoff from Palm Springs early in 1977 as she left to see her son perform in Las Vegas.

But if someone is vulnerable for another reason — perhaps a tragedy experienced earlier in life — this kind of response might be activated.

Ms. Caro and her editor, David Coulson, obviously wanted to dissipate any feeling of forced pathos that might accompany the intense tragedy experienced by Pai's family.

He is chief of neurosurgery at Jamaica Hospital, in Queens, and also president of the Aitken Neuroscience Institute, a research group that grew out of the tragedy experienced by the children of Sunny von Bulow.

This was not Washington's "macro" war, but the "micro" war on the ground, made up of "specific acts of bravery and tragedy" experienced by the soldiers of Battalion 2-16 as they patrolled streets riddled with sniper fire and improvised explosive devices that would claim the lives and limbs of their comrades.

"A story of love and tragedy experienced by ordinary people" is how producer Alexander Rodnyansky characterises this fearsomely believable tale of lives crushed and torn apart by bloated authority – as vast, empty and lifeless as the enigmatic whalebones that adorn the beach.

The stunned grief; the persistent, baffling and frightening sense that we can no longer work, sleep, breathe or love other people in serene peace; and perhaps most of all the profound helplessness and irrelevance that those of us who merely witnessed the tragedy experienced: these are the emotions that Joan expresses.

But few studies have examined how kids fare after the death of a parent,  a tragedy experienced by about 3%to4%4% of children in high-income countries, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.  .