Sentence examples for tragedy described from inspiring English sources

The best solution he could hope for, he said, was the kind of tragedy described in the stories of writer Anton Chekhov.

Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado, at times struggling to find words to do justice to the tragedy, described "an anger that can't find focus" at an emotional news conference Friday night.

That was the pithy explanation of the shuttle tragedy, described at a press conference today by G. Scott Hubbard, director of NASA's Ames Research Center and member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board CAIBB).

The New York City police commissioner, Bill Bratton, described the incident as an "unfortunate tragedy", describing Gurley as "totally innocent".

(Princeton University, $39.95). This panoramic history plotted as an epic family tragedy describes the lives of Bolshevik revolutionaries who were swallowed up by the cause they believed in.

Acuña is best known for her verse drama Rienzi el tribuno (produced 1876; "Rienzi the Tribune"); the tragedy describes the futile efforts of the 14th-century Roman tribune Cola di Rienzo to restore the greatness of ancient Rome.

The writer Emma Forrest once captured these songwriters' mingling of madness and tragedy, describing Kate Bush as "the singer-songwriter who conjures Millais's 1852 painting of Ophelia come to life, a beautiful young girl, singing to herself as she drowns, her pure, high, upper register both childlike and demented".

In it, he told of his family's tragedy, describing his daughter as "a dreamer with a tremendous heart".

As he expressed it at the end of "Lear", tragedy describes the strongest passions, and "the greatest strength of genius is shewn here in describing the strongest passions: for the power of the imagination, in works of invention, must be in proportion to the force of the natural impressions, which are the subject of them".

The Chicago Sun-Times editorial board called the slating a "tragedy," describing Berrios as "a fine example, in fact, of why Illinois needs serious campaign finance reform with teeth in it," and citing Berrios' lack of transparency on the Board of Review, his record of hiring family and friends, and his "cozy" relationship with Madigan.

The one good thing that could emerge from the tragedies described in the Reuters article is a societal effort to be more involved in the lives of families with children adopted from abroad.