Sentence examples for tragic degree from inspiring English sources

And yet this deal, and Obama's own agenda, have been informed by the G.O.P.'s delusions, to a tragic degree.

Boyle's debut album is eerily detached to an almost tragic degree, and it's this that gives the music Lynchian overtones.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet And yet this deal, and Obama's own agenda, have been informed by the G.O.P.'s delusions, to a tragic degree.

"Wednesday's tragic events highlight the degree to which Egypt is becoming dangerously polarized," she said, pointing to reports of violent incidents in several parts of the country in response to the clearing of sit-ins in Cairo.

Hers is a back-story that includes the sensible (a business studies degree), the tragic (the death of her mother when she was 22), the romantic (winning a Winnebago in a card game and taking it on a road trip across America) and the bizarre (she once tutored the son of the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg, and lived in their castle).

If the world makes this pledge, we can keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius and avoid tragic environmental consequences.

I see this image of the basement-dwelling wizard who rejects societal conventions to such an extreme degree as one of the tragic heroes of our times".

We meet the white couple who sold the house to the Youngers, fluttery Bev and brooding Russ (the outstanding Christina Kirk and Frank Wood); by degrees, we learn of the tragic circumstances that led them to sell at such a knockdown price.

Another review praised Rinty's eyes, saying that they conveyed something "tragic, fierce, sad and... a nobility and degree of loyalty not credible in a person".

More provocatively, the senator, who has a medical degree, said he "heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines".

There is no consensus as concerns the precise limits of the words of the 8th-century Isaiah or the degree of consistency with which he sustained his tragic monotone.