Sentence examples for tragic burden from inspiring English sources

That placed a sometimes tragic burden on the victims of the crimes the escapees later committed, but it must have definitely reduced upkeep.

Martha C. Nussbaum tells the ancient Greek story in "Liberty of Conscience," her grand and penetrating discourse on religion and American law, to illustrate how an unbending state can impose a "tragic burden" on a member of a religious minority.

But as this Great Game becomes deadly serious, as a region resembling Kim's becomes better understood, and as new forms of imperialism take shape, Kipling's notorious and tragic burden begins to seem unavoidable.

What a tragic burden for a young man advertised by his university and the press as an exemplar of character.

In every era, there's been a tragic contrast between the burden of unwanted pregnancies and the burden of infertility.

Mr. Garrido, gorgeous and effortlessly charismatic, is convincing when called upon to be feckless and charming, but he strains when the burden of tragic emotion is dropped onto his shoulders.

Mitt Romney did see this, I think, in the way any ragingly surreal, typically American fraud occasionally senses his own emptiness before someone wise and strong enough to be shouldering the burden of tragic optimism.

This country is still burdened by tragic history represented by that flag.

It is the first German play in which bürgerlich (middle-class) characters bear the full burden of a tragic fate, and it had its successful premiere at Frankfurt an der Oder in 1755.

Last year, the attitude of jishuku - voluntary self-restraint - was evident as the Japanese people tried to share the burden of the tragic natural disasters that hit the county by refraining from enjoying themselves.

Plus I have the burden of a tragic backstory, which I believe has held me back in many ways here in Hollywood. .