"tragic affair" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a disastrous or sorrowful event or situation. Example: The town was still reeling from the aftermath of the tragic affair that had left several families devastated.
In this adventure, metamorphosis is not such a tragic affair.
The best plays of the 1950s turned the concept of family into a tragic affair.
The set began with Mr. Way on a gurney, singing, "Now come one, come all to this tragic affair".
But a few minutes later, when the guy calls her friend's abortion a "heavy situation," she asserts that it's less a tragic affair than a pragmatic concern.
Klaussmann forges this pilot an identity as Owen Chambers, an American who ends up having a tortuous and ultimately tragic affair with Gerald.
Kumar's tragic affair with English girl Daphne Manners leads to conflict with racist sociopath Ronald Merrick Timm Pigott-Smith), a policeman and later a soldier.
There, standing beneath the towering skeleton of a brachiosaurus, they begin a passionate, obsessive and ultimately tragic love affair.
Abelard's autobiographical work, the Historia calamitatum (written c. 1136; The Story of Abelard's Adversities), recounts the story of his tragic love affair and its theological consequences.
This relationship can be characterised as a tragic love affair on the Jewish part, which was met with a deep phobia by Europe.
Zhang later codirected Wang chao de nv ren: Yang Guifei (2015; Lady of the Dynasty), about the tragic love affair between concubine Yang Guifei and Emperor Xuanzong.
Alfred, who has never married, still nurses wounds left by a tragic love affair and by a schoolboy betrayal in an even more distant past.
