Sentence examples for tragedy experienced from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

The program, offered in the summer of 2006, combined recreation, sport, and psychosocial rehabilitation activities for 94 participants, 46 of who were taken hostage in the 2004 school tragedy and experienced those events first hand.

"Ali is still coming to terms with the tragedy he experienced in Syria, and learning to deal with his new disability," says Ms. Samhoun, who provides psychosocial support to children with disabilities.