Sentence examples for tragic misstep from inspiring English sources

BERT: I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution.

He says things like "I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in human evolution.

("I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution," Cohle says).

Two years before the Eight Belles tragedy, I was at Pimlico when Barbaro made the tragic misstep in the Preakness Stakes that eventually cost him his life.

Their breast beating on behalf of race horses would have more credibility if they had begun their railings before Barbaro's tragic misstep.

Looking at recent and raved-about TV dramas, the closest analogue probably comes from "True Detective," Season 1. Rust Cohle was more radical pessimist than anarchist, but his posture toward other people had something of the Angry Young Man to it: "everybody's nobody," according to Rust, who also says, in the first episode of that show, that "human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution".

Such tragic missteps can be easily avoided by "closing the loop"—confirming that important messages have been received and understood by the next person in the chain, Dr. Gawande says.

Amid fear, confusion and conflicting public health messages surrounding west Africa's first recorded encounter with Ebola, Kailahun and its surrounding chiefdoms must make decisions that will be vindicated by time or become tragic missteps.

Who wouldn't want a cornfield or a cabbage patch down the road?More broadly, the segregation of suburbia from farming has always seemed to me like one of the tragic cultural missteps of the 20th century.

The book gives way to a forlorn litany of the tragic events and missteps since Saddam Hussein's fall.

Although it's easy to predict where the film is headed, "Johns" reaches its tragic destination with few missteps.