Sentence examples for tragic luck from inspiring English sources

Or it could be tragic luck.

President Bush, Mr. Lear argued, is seen as the recipient of a similar kind of tragic luck.

In any case, Tamara is soon contending with three possible suitors: the farmer, who is recovering from some tragic bad luck; the philandering novelist; and a vain and snarly rock star who shows up in town with his dog.

The evidence speaks for itself: 80 years of Red Sox wandering in the wilderness, years of tragic bad luck on the field and more than occasional foolishness and ineptitude in the dugout and front office, and then Henry and his partners, Lucchino and Tom Werner, buy the team and hire Epstein, then just 28, and less than three years later the Bosox were wearing World Series rings.

Mr. Reiner's deft grasp of the small details -- the barracuda record company liaison, the tragic bad luck with drummers -- anticipated Robert Altman's arch film "The Player" as well as all the "Access Hollywood -type syndicated television sHollywood -typetesyndicatedd televisionthe-showss andana.

In many cases, the death is accidental, a case of tragic bad luck.

Black humor sits alongside mordantly cool accounts of battles, wounds, horrors, absurd and tragic turns of luck.

Then a second tragic piece of good luck occurred.