Sentence examples for tragic blow from inspiring English sources

Either way, his death is a tragic blow to our case".

Abolition would be a tragic blow to our democratic right of self-expression".

The United Nations mission in Haiti suffered a tragic blow on Tuesday when its headquarters in Port-au-Prince, the nation's capital, were destroyed.

The voice on our radio that says that another tragic blow has fallen somewhere in the world seem far away and fictional.

(4) Report on the assassination of Martin Luther King, 1968 The killing of King was a tragic blow to the US civil rights campaign.

Edoardo Agnelli, son of the head of the Fiat dynasty, was found dead today under a highway bridge, the second tragic blow to strike Italy's most prominent family in recent years.

When Oskar shoots himself after being publicly struck by his father — he succeeds only in blinding himself in one eye — Bermann objects to anyone's calling it tragic: "The blow from old Ehrenberg was a brutality; Oskar's attempted suicide was foolishness; that he hurt himself so badly was ineptitude.

Those tragic stories that blow our minds with the cruelty and pain also enrage us and make us rise up and shout, "No more of this violence, not on my watch".

The other is tragic: the teenager blows up in a blaze of glory.

"But it's tragic how quickly it blew up," continues Pax.

"This tragic case is a terrible blow to the Santa Barbara community and the medical community at large," he said.