Sentence examples for tragic footnotes from inspiring English sources

But less heralded are the failures and crashes, tragic footnotes to these remarkable accomplishments.

The spirit of this story arises from a tragic footnote in American history: During the second year of the Civil War, in February 1862, the Lincolns' 11-year-old son, Willie, died of typhoid fever.

It is, of course, a tragic footnote that Helena Bonham Carter's standing as an actress died during the filming of Les Misérables and the director was forced to copy and paste every other performance she has ever given into each clownish duet with the sock puppet that is Sacha Baron Cohen.

If the current trend continues, however, Iraq may turn out to be yet another tragic footnote in the history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East.

She will succeed where I failed, giving him the family and future he deserves, transforming me into a tragic footnote in his biography.

While it may be little more than a tragic footnote in the history of the CIA, renewed interest in the incident is dredging up old anxieties about the actions and integrity of the intelligence community during the Cold War.

But a mystery of a different kind shrouds the death of the toddler, who was found on the same scrubby and desolate stretch of land, a tragic, nameless footnote in the case.

The Pandits' story is one of the tragic and often overlooked footnotes of a conflict that has claimed perhaps 60,000 lives.

Footnotes With a screening of Mike Leigh's tragic "Vera Drake," the 48th annual London Film Festival began on Wednesday, ushering in two weeks filled with 180 features and 103 shorts from 60 countries, The Associated Press reported.

("The footnotes! The footnotes!").

The footnotes.