Sentence examples for tragic anecdotes from inspiring English sources
But there are tragic anecdotes.
Elise wouldn't like this novel any more than she liked John's stories, since most of it is a string of sometimes funny and sometimes tragic anecdotes struggling to form a coherent narrative.
The movie is full of hilarious, salty, sometimes rather tragic anecdotes, and compelling, where-are-they-now aspects.
The bottom line was that the best King's star witnesses could offer were two personal and tragic anecdotes and an ideological rant from a third.
Gay Myers and Lance Mayer, art conservators in New London, Conn., have dug up the tragic and eerie anecdotes for a new book with a seemingly dry title, "American Painters on Technique: The Colonial Period to 1860" (Getty Publications).
For example, assaults on abortion rights are often combatted with the anecdote of the tragic but less common abortion-seeker: victims of incest, rape or grave medical danger.
Set against the epic corruption that has defined the war in Iraq, Mr. Riechers's tragic tale is but a passing anecdote, his infraction at most a misdemeanor.
As the months wore on, the tragic aspects of the alley became unavoidable, impossible to turn into comic anecdotes I would dole out to friends in the backyards of bars.
As tragic and condemnable as each of these cases was, they were unrelated anecdotes that failed to make the argument of widespread radicalization and the systematic failure of American Muslims to cooperate with law enforcement.
