When we combine the evidence of billions of human-driven miles with the fact that autonomous cars will be far safer than the human drivers of today, the statistical likelihood of an individual's autonomous car facing such a tragic predicament approaches zero.
Jihadist extremists were responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 1, 2001 -- a fact that should never be forgotten, especially as the anniversary of that tragic event approaches.
And his approach to Brahms came through from the two forceful chords that begin the "Tragic Overture".
And when the script approaches tragic terrain — when Mother Courage's children bite the dust — Ms. Streep provides a master class in the art of electrified stillness.
Avoiding overtly tragic rhetoric, his approach is primarily reflective.
It's been almost 20 years since the United States' National Transportation Safety Board urged the FAA to recommend child restraints on planes, after the tragic USAir missed approach in Charlotte, NC where two mothers were unable to hang on to their daughters, who were on board as lap infants.
He's managed to turn the strip's adorable blond airhead, Boopsie, into something approaching a tragic figure.
But as the character approached her tragic death, I found myself thinking, again and again, What a brilliant choice!
This is a grave weakness (some will think it an invalidating one) but it is also what enables Cimino to attain something approaching the tragic grandeur of a popular epic… The Deer Hunter is a rich and powerful picture that without a trace of patronisation or the slightest touch of cultural superiority, speaks eloquently for the inarticulate.
As we approach the tragic one year anniversary of the kidnapping of the girls of Chibok, attacks on schools -- despite the world's revulsion of using girls and boys as instruments of war -- are increasing.
