Sentence examples for tragic plea from inspiring English sources

The central tension between actualities and make-believe anticipates the tragic plea at the end of Villette: "leave sunny imaginations hope".

One of the most tragic pleas for help we received at Cashquestions.com was from a woman who bought her council house under a right-to-buy scheme, then took out a secured loan from one of the afternoon TV loan companies.

Cuomo was joking of course – a ham-fisted attempt at a target reference – but there was a strange and tragic truth in his plea.

Cynically, we should probably also wonder whether Kennedy (or Palmerston) actually knew that their cherished slogan had first become a Roman commonplace after being uttered as a desperate plea from a tragic Sicilian as he was pinned to a cross and illegally crucified by a rogue Roman provincial governor in the first century BCE – a plea that had no effect whatsoever.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] plea to ChinaSIR – Following the tragic killing of 29 innocent people in Kunming, and the self immolation of 120 Tibetans in recent months, you pronounced that "the only way forward" is for China to show Uighurs and Tibetans "how they can live peacefully and prosperously together within China" ("The burden of empire", March 8th).

The awkward affixing of a happy ending to a fundamentally tragic story was a form of prayer, a plea that life might imitate art.

Your May 11 editorial "Republicans for Stem Cell Research" refers to Nancy Reagan's plea for increased research, based on her husband's tragic illness.

Imposing the maximum sentence possible under a plea bargaining deal, Justice Wittner described the homicide as a "sad, tragic case" of a vulnerable elderly man victimized to siphon his estate.

Mr. Holder called the case tragic but defended prosecutors' conduct, noting that they had offered Mr. Swartz several versions of a plea deal that would involve only a few months of prison time.

A plea.

Just tragic".