Indeed, the harsh 1996 no-discretion deportation laws, combined with the no-discretion enforcement and prosecutorial practices ordered by the new President, virtually guarantee the tragic consequences for Mr. Lee and his family of the legal misadvice he received.
And to the contemporary listener who is discovering their work for the first time, the neglect they suffered during their lifetimes seems not just tragic, but virtually incomprehensible.
When Adrian Borland killed himself 19 years later, his equally tragic loss went virtually unnoticed.
To spite his famous father (Michael Sarne, Davidd enlists in the Israeli Army, where a tragic incident leaves him virtually catatonic.
As Marguerite Yourcenar put it, Piranesi was not only the interpreter but "virtually the inventor of Rome's tragic beauty".
But its gesture of accommodation does not get to the heart of the problem: the presidential system, inherited from the Mubarak era, virtually guarantees a repetition of the tragic events of the past year.
Bizarre manifestations of his illness continued – virtually unabated – right up until the tragic day on which he killed his wife's parents in 1992.
For many years the image of Scott as a tragic hero, beyond reproach, remained virtually unchallenged, for although there were rifts among some who were close to the expedition, including relatives of those who died, this disharmony was not public.
Earthquakes, it's well known, are virtually unpredictable, giving this whole affair an air of tragic absurdity.
The story is told through the eyes of the McCain (played by Ed Harris) camp and particularly senior strategist Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson), who championed the choice of the virtually unknown politician, only to later view it as a tragic blunder.
