Sentence examples for tragedy over from inspiring English sources

About the first topic Ebershoff is decidedly gloomy, offering this description of the Poore mansion's maids: "The girls, feather dusters in their fists, would cluck and sigh, for they too had witnessed this common tragedy, over and over: their mothers, their sisters, each wrongly betrothed, each mending fissures in their souls".

The A.N.C. has been rocked by scandal and tragedy over the past year.

Jessica Chastain plays Jack's mother, whose grief, and that of her husband, over the loss of their son casts a shadow of tragedy over everything that will follow.

Jessica Chastain plays Jack's mother, whose grief, and that of her husband, casts a shadow of tragedy over everything that will follow.

"This new tragedy over the skies of Smolensk and Katyn might become one more reason for the new international humiliation of Russia and its isolation".

So crushing was this turn of events that it seemed the filmmakers had invented a whole new genre: tragedy over triumph.

As we grieve we are aware that this kind of tragedy happens over and over again in this country where for some the gun has become God.

"It is such a tragedy all over again," he said.

What these ancient tragedies enact over and over again is not misfortune outside a character's control.

It is difficult to mourn the decline of brothels, which have been the source of countless tragedies over many centuries.

The fallout from 18 major stadium tragedies over 45 years from Lima to Abidjan numbers at least 1,391 dead.