Sentence examples for tragic background from inspiring English sources

When the teenage Assange was convicted of hacking, the court was told he was a gifted boy with a "tragic" background whose "computer is his only friend".

You would expect Egypt and Tunisia to cede ground after the political unrest earlier this year, against a tragic background of terrorist attacks on tourists at destinations across North Africa.

It is this tragic background which explains why Solzhenitsyn's later superb novels, The Cancer Ward and The First Circle, have been banned in the Soviet Union while Solzhenitsyn himself has been proclaimed a pariah unworthy even of membership in the Union of Soviet Writers.

Well, we grow up – damaged and scarred, concealing our tragic backgrounds.

James Huysman, a psychologist who has spent 15 years consulting with reality shows and their contestants, says that people with tragic backgrounds make great TV, but, like lottery winners, are rarely well served by the instant success that the medium hands them.

Many of the children EJI included in its report have tragic backgrounds.

"The Last Confession," a tragic episode set against a background of the Italian Risorgimento, is a powerful dramatic monologue that can bear comparison with those of Robert Browning.

It gave some background to a tragic story about a man who was found dead after his wife and two children had been murdered.

Their hatred for each other, and then of course the complication of having an Islamic people, the Bosnians, was the background to the tragic Yugoslav Civil War of the early 1990s.

"Bath have been continually supportive and I would like to record our thanks to Sale for their strong support in facilitating this outcome which further underlines the cooperation and solidarity shown by all European clubs against the background of the tragic circumstances".

What transpires is a tragic love story with the background of a magical traveling circus.