Sentence examples for tragic match from inspiring English sources

It was a tragic match and their relationship turned sour.

Theirs was a tragic match and the relationship turned sour.

(They're probably not referring to this piece from the Verge, which says that "the desperate book industry and 'tatvertising' are a perfect, tragic match").

Mary Roach's review of Molly Caldwell Crosby's "American Plague" (Nov. 5) states that President Rutherford B. Hayes dismissed the pleas to help the victims of the 1878 Memphis yellow fever epidemic as "greatly exaggerated" and suggests that his response to that tragic episode matches that of George W. Bush to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

There will be no tragic hero in that match, and it's poorer for it.

His habitual, frustrated melancholy arose, in part, from the fact that his misfortunes were not serious enough to match his tragic view of life, and he sought relief in intensive historical research, choosing subjects in which divine drama, lacking in his own life, seemed most evident.

There was a tragic postscript to the match when the death was confirmed of an elderly male spectator who had collapsed in the seats below the Carnegie Pavilion in the morning, leading to a half-hour interruption in play after only three overs of the Durham innings.

The lyrics more closely match the tragic concert at Altamont Speedway in December 1969, where "Jack Flash sat on a candlestick".

Nothing, though, which had previously occurred in the shambolic reign of Stephen House, chief constable of Police Scotland, matched the tragic incompetence of his force's performance in July.

Under pressure from the Bolshoi and cultural officials who frowned on tampering with classics, he agreed to rewrite the ending to match Shakespeare's tragic conclusion.

I saw it in first run in Paris in early June ,1983; its tragic rapidity and compression are matched by a scene of humor without parallel in his oeuvre.