Sentence examples for tragedy 1 from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, ≈100,000 persons in Africa contracted cholera in 2011 alone, and >2,500 died in what Mintz and Guerrant have referred to as an "unconscionable tragedy" (1 ).

The ferocious Tony-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave roars as the former Queen of Troy in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Euripides' tragedy (1 45).

This best-play winner from the Fringe Festival updates the motivations, not just the cosmetics, of the classic tragedy (1 05).

Published in Britain by HarperCollins as "The Icarus Syndrome: How American Triumph Produces American Tragedy"; £18.99.

Wasps were at fault for an air tragedy 20 years earlier in the Dominican Republic.

The Brooklyn Tragedy 24 Hour Crisis Intervention Hot Line, (917) 710-8399, was deluged last week, after the brutal murder of young Leiby Kletzky.

Your Jan . 4front-page article about the mining tragedy, "12 Miners Found Alive 41 Hours After Explosion," was questionable from the start.

It is not unusual for the public to respond generously to a tragedy (£392m for the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and £107m for the Haitian earthquake in 2010).

(Brantley) 'MACBETH'Patrick Stewart brings fearsome insight to the title role in Rupert Goold's good and nasty production of Shakespeare's tragedy (2 45).

"I was in Los Angeles," says India's greatest classical musician, "hearing about this terrible tragedy: 100,000 refugees coming into Kolkata, and yet almost nobody knew about it".

It is obvious that Colin Stagg was a victim of the police's stunning incompetence in the Rachel Nickell case (Travesty and tragedy, 19 December).