Sentence examples for tragic lost from inspiring English sources

In looking forward ten years, we must look back at this "lost decade" of war and tragic lost opportunities.

"The Gathering" has drawn glowing reviews — "Abrasively honest and toweringly moving, it grabs and shakes you, rabbiting on in a manic monologue, comical, tragic, lost and profound," Tom Adair wrote in The Scotsman — but is a surprise winner, an outsider on a six-book list of finalists.

"Sure Start thanks to Gordon Brown, Min Wage thanks to John Smith, the tragic lost leader we should have had as PM in 1997," he wrote.

The lowest curves are where the unpleasant situations happen, from the trivial (stepping in dog poop on your way to work) to the tragic (losing a loved one).

Poignantly, the quartet is seen as Shostakovich's suicide note due to his referencing of Wagner's Götterdämmerung, yet this tragic nature is tragically lost in the childlike non-vibrato of the strings.

He appeared to me as a fleeting apparition, a tragic figure lost in a myth of his own making.

These affected 203 million people of whom a tragic 238,000 lost their lives, and the economic damage totalled almost 78 billion USD.

"So many Africans in so many corners of this continent have risked - and in some tragic cases lost - their lives to bring polio to the verge of eradication," said Jonathan Majiyagbe, President of Rotary International, and himself a native of Nigeria.

How tragic to lose my sight at such a young age, I thought, and in such a ridiculous way.

It's tragic to lose people who care about others and who spend their lives caring for others".

I love her with all my heart and it seems tragic to lose her when we are (at our best) so good together.