Another aspect of the correlation between celebrities and drug addiction is that the same seductive relationship entertainers seem to have with the spotlight and the thrill of being on stage can be very similar to the often tragic, thrill-seeking relationship addicts have with mood-altering substances.
What Bush would call a "free Burma" will almost certainly be a messy, violent affair, and the good guys will soon be harder to tell from the bad guys than they were during the thrilling and tragic days of the Saffron Revolution.
Her youth was strange, tragic; her middle-age was thrilling, full of love; her final years had a vagueness to them rippling out from the exciting high-point.
Andrew Bolton, the Met curator who conceived and organized the exhibition, found the public response thrilling, and a little tragic.
A tragic tale of guilt and misapprehension Slick thrills and refined suspense Villain of the Truman show Red alert lacks colour.
But she can't abide being kept; she longs for the mess and thrill of the city and a tragic outcome seems inevitable.
The acclaim for Anna Nicole, based on the tragic life of Playboy centrefold Anna Nicole Smith, is a thrilling reminder that, even in hard times, there need be no recession in ideas or imagination.
This clear link between the past and the future was nothing short of thrilling, and has finally overshadowed those tragic final years, that day we sat beside my mother while she counted out the Seconal and then slipped into silence on the way to oblivion.
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Instead the thrill can be that their emotion, the tragic plight of the swan corps and the vexed malice of the sorcerer, Von Rothbart, come together in a crisis where dance drama becomes even more satisfying than pyrotechnics.
The tragic writer seeks by the most plausible language to thrill and charm the audience temporarily; the historian by real facts and real speeches seeks to instruct and convince serious students for all time.
