"I am thinking particularly of Indonesia, where our brothers and sisters in faith, even on this Christmas Day, are undergoing a tragic time of trial and suffering," he said.
Too many triumphs, too many crises, endings, false endings, comebacks, comic outrages, trials, tragic scenes.
"I am not to be convicted except by mine own word or writing," she said with defiant but tragic irony at her trial, revealing how far she had been outwitted by Cecil and by Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's secretary and Cecil's spymaster; they did her more harm by altering her letters and intercepting her codes than either of her murderous Scottish husbands.
Though race was rarely mentioned in the trial, the tragic death of a young, unarmed black woman in need of help has put Theodore Wafer (who is white) under the spotlight in a line of high-profile cases with black victims.
Perhaps they could have discussed The Big Teachable Moment from the Conrad Murray trial: the tragic consequences when those at the pinnacle of success can replace the people with the integrity to say "no," with others willing to indulge every whim, regardless of the consequences.
She praised "Citizen Kane" looking backward — nostalgically, as a vestige of the studio system, to the enthusiasms of her own youth, and to Welles's own, rather than ahead, to the self-renewing youth of the cinema that it inspired, and to the tragic consciousness of future trials that it heralded.
I have thought about this quite a bit over the last few years and recently, watching the Zimmerman trial and the tragic circumstances surrounding Trayvon Martin's death.
Accordingly, it does better than any of its predecessors in portraying Joan's tragic period, which began long before her trial.
Lately I have been reflecting, after 50 years, on trial and punishment, on the tragic contrast between Fidel Castro, inmate, and Fidel Castro, prison warden.
Pickle's emotional problems, H. J.'s spiritual regeneration, the tragic story of Tay, Abebe's own trials in Africa — all are lengthily discussed but minimally dramatized.
