The phrase "tragic illness" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a serious and often sorrowful or unfortunate illness or disease. Example: The family was devastated by the news of their mother's tragic illness, which left her bedridden for months before eventually taking her life.
H.I.V. infection is a tragic illness of this century.
"It's a horrible, tragic illness but some qualities are preserved late into the illness," he said.
But his eventual departure was greeted by the blog Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness with these words: "Rejoice!
I think about death all the time, but only in a romantic, self-serving way, beginning, most often, with my tragic illness, and ending with my funeral.
Your May 11 editorial "Republicans for Stem Cell Research" refers to Nancy Reagan's plea for increased research, based on her husband's tragic illness.
"Apple" does a spot-on, if unknowing, impression of a Lifetime movie as it burbles with bathos, tragic illness, cheap coincidences, gratuitous alcoholism and tearful confessions of star-crossed love.
The melodrama does a spot-on, if unknowing, impression of a Lifetime movie, as it burbles with bathos, tragic-illness clichés, cheap coincidences, tearful confessions of star-crossed love, gratuitous alcoholism, even that cheesy transition music.
The actions he has taken in the past few years is a result of tragic mental illness.
It also takes him to the laboratories of cognitive science, and to the literature of memory: to the famous Russian journalist identified in 1928 who could remember everything; and to those tragic victims of illness and injury who can recall nothing for more than a few seconds.
From the time I was a child, I watched my family become more and more attached to the church -- and thus religion -- with every tragic death and illness we endured.
These interviewees felt the media representations of Type 1 were invariably predicated upon tragic models of illness, usually featuring older people struggling to live with the consequences of complications.
