Sentence examples for tragic experiment from inspiring English sources
Romania's neglected children represented a tragic experiment in what happens to institutionalised children denied the stimulation of normal human relationships.
"It was a place that was very much of its time", says the photographer Dominic Harris, who has tracked down several former colleagues of Laing's and their patients, all of whom shared the turbulent, exciting and sometimes tragic experiment in communal therapy.
None of our failings are comparable to the tragic experiment of Communism--an experiment that cost 50 million lives Our failings make us uncomfortable about judging others but they have not burdened us with the kind of moral trauma which the Soviet Union is beginning to allow to surface& which China has just pushed back behind a fresh curtain of lies.
"In some ways, they became the tragic experiment in what happens when people are bumped from belonging to not belonging," said Michelle Fine, a professor of psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York who has studied Muslim American youth.
It's a massive, tragic experiment -- the first time it has been possible to observe so much debris as it disperses from a single point at one time.
Dmitri Shostakovich lived through the darkest hours of the tragic Soviet experiment, and his music spoke from its void with unparalleled impact.
Martin Guggenheim, a professor at New York University of Law, who represented children in court for more than a decade, believes that before long we will look back at the policy of "banishing children from their birth families" as a tragic social experiment.
This became possible in a unique study that made the best of a tragic natural experiment [ 13- 15].
What we are seeing here is yet another of the large-scale, potentially tragic, uncontrolled experiments that humans have conducted on their environment without intending to.
Tragic titles ("An Experiment in Misery," "The Happy Failure"), stately author photos, and a neon color palette make these paperbacks a smart choice for savvy subway (or beach) reading.
By accumulating the stories of ordinary people, Alexievich has embarked on a massive and worthy project: to explain the rise and fall of the tragic, compulsory social experiment represented by Soviet Communism.
