Sentence examples for tragic era from inspiring English sources

But the funny thing is that we always agreed that Vietnam was an absolutely tragic era.

The tsarist colonial period in the Uzbek khanates marked a dark, tragic era for indigenous literature.

But a sober, realistic strategy to confront this new threat will help to shorten the tragic era we just entered.

Since the 1960s, scholars have viewed post-Civil War Reconstruction not as a tragic era but as an "unfinished revolution," as the historian Eric Foner put it.

Joseph Horowitz's characterization of the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ["A Moral Beacon Amid the Darkness of a Tragic Era," Feb. 6] is for the most part extremely apt.

Warshow's sentences are convoluted and literary and come to us as from a great distance, stiff with the sternness of a more tragic era.

In a bygone era, tragic events birthed social reforms.

Rarely have high spirits and theatrical energy seemed like such a tragic waste; an era and its myths seem to be dying on-screen in real time.

That sounds tragic in an era when writers feel compelled to Instagram every moment of their lives — from the death of a spouse to the consumption of a salad.

Limbaugh lastly mentions that Jackson met his apparent tragic end during the Obama era.

As Tomas Venclova concluded, "Miłosz was able to condense the tragic experience of his era into an invisible point, where hope is born".