Sentence examples for tragic measure from inspiring English sources
His inventions don't reflect life, they create it, and the culture's growing doubts that such a feat is possible are a tragic measure of its diminishment.
Heather Heyer's death by a crazed driver who mowed down a crowd of counter demonstrators, along with injuries of other counter demonstrators, was tragic beyond measure.
A character funny, touching and tragic in equal measure, through Samad Iqbal we understand the burden of the comfort of faith.
This sounds like a tragic accumulation, unless you measure it against, say, U.S. auto deaths, which amount to that in about five days.
"The situation is tragic and we cannot measure it in simple terms like 'victory' or 'defeat.' The cultural community is looking at it from the human side.
The result of this union is satire of a very special kind, in which vice or folly is regarded not so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a measure of tragic sympathy.
In one especially blunt moment, Cinque, sitting around the fateful dinner table, beams at his guests and says, "We should do this more often" – a grossly tragic line by any measure.
The second expands upon that somewhat, before the third finally seeks to bring a measure of tragic resolution to it all, while leaving a number of threads a bit too casually dangling.
But the publication of the book has drawn former Casa Susanna guests out, and it turns out that their stories, like most, have equal measures of tragic and comic endings.
Body counts often become a proxy measure of a tragic event's significance; as the historian Karel Bartosek has written, they are "a mathematical truth" that "transforms mass deaths into a kind of sacrament".
