Sentence examples for was not tragic from inspiring English sources

It was not tragic – but it was a source of sorrow to him.

Together with her sisters Emily and Anne, Brontë led a life that was tedious when it was not tragic: spent largely in rural isolation, and punctuated by the untimely deaths of loved ones and stints teaching and governessing.

I was old enough at 63 to have acquired my share of wrinkles, grey hair, and the comprehension that my case was not tragic, not the tragedy, for instance, of a young woman robbed of her maturity.

"She wasn't tragic," Ms. Luft said.

But what if James wasn't tragic?

If the situation wasn't tragic enough, this response makes it all even more depressing.

It's not tragic, not comic.

Their story is not tragic, but heroic.

They meet again, 15 years later, and they're not tragic; all they are is older.

"All is suffering," say the Buddhists, but all is not tragic.

It's not tragic, exactly, but it's so sudden and deflating.