"Surrender" is a tragic word in war, but in the context of adoption, surrendering your child to someone you met two days earlier over Crawdad Bites is reasonably unfathomable.
Hiding behind the humbug that the attack of last Sept. 11 was too horrible, too devastating, too painful, too tragic for words, that words could not possibly express our grief and indignation, our leaders have a perfect excuse to drape themselves in others' words, now voided of content.
Lord Glenarthur, the hospital chairman, said Saldanha's death was "tragic beyond words" and urged the radio station to ensure the incident was never repeated.
Calling Saldanha's death "tragic beyond words", Glenarthur said the station's "premeditated and ill-considered actions" led to the "humiliation" of Saldanha and another nurse.
The chairman of the King Edward VII hospital, Lord Glenarthur, had written to the station's owners saying the death of nurse Saldanha, who received the prank call from the Australian DJs, was "tragic beyond words".
Black Springfield residents are seen holding up "I can't breathe" signs in reference to the tragic last words of Eric Garner after he was put in a chokehold by a police officer last year, while others reflect the Black Lives Matter protests to end police brutality that erupted after teenager Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson.
"There is nothing more Australian than dropping in at the local cafe for a morning coffee, and it's tragic beyond words that people going about their everyday business should have been caught up in such a horrific incident," Abbott said.
Plenty of random PR blogs like to underline how stressful the job is, but nothing is more telling of PR's importance syndrome than this tragic, positively worded infographic of a PR person's 5 30am-10pm workday.
There is something, in other words, tragic about testosterone.
