Sentence examples for tragic backgrounds from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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".

Also, Ben is a big one -- he didn't come in until the end of Season 2. He has this kind of tragic, Thomas Hardy background.

They don't have that kind of political background and tragic personality".

It traces how their music evolved from the Classical era, and how their varied backgrounds and often tragic lives produced an explosion of invention and emotion.

Now, having spoken to my friends, and having thought about the backgrounds to these tragic events, the work of psychologist Albert Bandura seems most appropriate.

"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.