Sentence examples for tragic period from inspiring English sources

This is the reason I know nothing about this tragic period.

He goes into history as the mayor who brought us through this tragic period.

"Senator Franken recognizes that this is a tragic period in history," said his press secretary, Ed Shelleby.

Accordingly, it does better than any of its predecessors in portraying Joan's tragic period, which began long before her trial.

"For most of us we have the fear that the world will forget what happened during this tragic period.

Despite the well-attested horrors of mass murder, pillage and rape, this tragic period was little discussed until the 90s.

Our new era is one defined by ideological clashes, nationalistic resurgence and territorial occupation — an era in some ways similar to the tragic periods of confrontation in 20th-century Europe.

Was the intervening period tragic, or comic, like a nine-year episode of The Thick of It? Possibly both.

I remember my parents giving dinner parties in Brussels, in the 1970s, during the tragic Ice Storm period of my childhood.

As in the literature of the period, tragic themes predominated in Romantic painting, and interest turned sharply from classical history and mythology to medieval subjects, although an interest in the primitive was sometimes common to both.

But for many in Spryfield, this trial may represent the end of perhaps its most tragic and violent period in its history.