Sentence examples for tragic leaps from inspiring English sources

Television viewers weigh in on those tragic leaps on the Web site www.jumptheshark.com and can even read a "Jump the Shark" book by the site's creator, Jon Hein, but neither form is as delicious as the concept itself).

Strasmore explains how this was the place where his older brother, a onetime USC quarterback headed for fame but derailed by the NCAA, ended his life with a tragic leap.

Du Bois was blind to the defects of his host nations – even though he toured China during the tragic Great Leap Forward – and he later wrote approvingly of the conditions in both countries.

It's not snobbery about the source material that makes this depressing, so much as the sense of someone eagerly jumping on ideas that long ago curdled into cliches, like a tragic uncle suddenly leaping from the dinner table with a cry of "watch this everyone!" and launching into the Gangham Style dance.

The tragic Gary Speed was behind that leap to the top 50.

There is a lesson here: There is nothing tragic about attempting a great leap and falling short.

Yesterday, Luckey published a review of Magic Leap's developer kit on his personal blog titled "Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap".

At the age of 69, Hawthorne has joined the Gielguds and McKellens by making a very rare artistic leap from idiosyncracy and humour to tragic, shabby pathos.

It's a small leap from this performance to the serenading tragic hero Manrico in "Il Trovatore".

It is a tragic commentary on the GOP and how far it has leapt over the anti-immigration cliff.

In fact, even today, it requires no great leap of imagination for audiences to accept that the tragic love of Violetta Valery and Alfredo Germont is unfolding in and around mid-19th-century Paris, and not on stage.