Sentence examples for tragic year from inspiring English sources
"Everest seems to attract more climbers after a tragic year," he wrote recently.
Antiviolence initiatives that actually work are desperately needed to cut down on the slaughter that continues with numbing regularity, year after tragic year.
"This is a tragic day in what has already been a tragic year for Malaysia," Mr. Najib told reporters in a televised statement from Kuala Lumpur.
The Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak, said the terrible and deeply shocking news marked "a tragic day in what has already been a tragic year for Malaysia".
But this has been a tragic year for elite athletes in action, with Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luger, dying a few hours before the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in February after a horrific crash during a training run.
As The Economist went to press, no survivors had been found.The crash, most probably an accident, comes at the end of a particularly tragic year in South-East Asia's aviation history.
"Those were tragic years in South Boston," he said.
As with so much else that touches on those tragic years, it isn't so, and what is so is much sadder.
He explores a prime example — the Irish Potato Famine — sensitively, applying political, agronomic and social analysis to vivify the tragic years of 1845 to 1849.
But these last years, devoted to asserting a belief formulated when Asch visited Palestine in 1906 that Christianity is essentially a Jewish phenomenon, "one culture and civilization"—were tragic years.
"The learning experience that I had in New York, especially in the tragic years we went through in not winning, and just learning, that's helped me out," he said.
