Sentence examples for unusual tragedy from inspiring English sources

While playing with the Tourists, Cobb had his personal life jolted by an unusual tragedy: on August 8, 1905, his mother shot and killed his father, who was atop the family's porch roof in an attempt to catch her being unfaithful and whom she purportedly mistook for a burglar.

My parents chose to separate a few days after the very last plausible event to bring them together (barring any unusual tragedies, extremes, my theoretical wedding, etc): my college graduation.

In retrospect it wasn't the brutality of the attack on the young woman that made her tragedy unusual; it was that an attack had, at last, elicited a response.

And a lot of the rushing and judgment is coming from the one party with everything to lose from this highly unusual and unforeseeable tragedy.

He obviously didn't have a choice about getting sucked into Trump's orbit, like so many of the president's other underlings, but that just gives an unusual tinge of tragedy to the man's wraithing and makes him perhaps the definitive example of the phenomenon.

So despite sounding unusual, these horrible tragedies may be happening all around us.

More facts underlying the Rausing tragedy and the unusual offence with which Rausing has been charged are sure to follow.

The play's setting is Corinth — a highly unusual locale for a Greek tragedy — and its heroine is obsessed with violated oaths.

In one of the more unusual attempts to exploit the tragedy of Sept. 11, Mr. Leung tried to fake his own death in the World Trade Center attack to avoid a criminal prosecution, according to his guilty plea on Wednesday.

The reasons for that failure seem particularly resonant in this political season, which is why it may not be an accident that Shakespeare's rarely produced tragedy is attracting unusual attention.

William Gibbons, Chief Executive of the Passenger Shipping Association which represents cruise ship companies in the UK, said the tragedy was very unusual and that the whole industry would learn from it.