Moreover, the awkward truth was that while the death of the Israeli soldiers was a grievous embarrassment for the military -- as well as a tragedy for the soldiers' friends and families -- it was not the diplomatic disaster that was initially feared.
The reported destruction by Islamic State militants at Nimrud, following similar destruction at the site of Nineveh and the Mosul Museum, is an attack on the people of Iraq as well as a tragedy for the world's cultural heritage.
Well, it's a tragedy of errors.
This is arguably even more important than the meat – a stew without gravy is, well, if not a tragedy, then certainly not a stew.
The timing of the incident, as well as being a tragedy for Guyard-Guillot's friends, colleagues and family, was doubly cruel for Cirque – which has been trying to get its momentum back after it had to lay off 400 employees this winter owing to a string of under-performing shows.
Unemployment will climb well above 10%, a tragedy for millions and a policy debacle for Washington's weak-dollar, high-commodity, big-government interventionism.
Remove the monstrosity from Alexandra and Chance, and you also remove the potential for "Sweet Bird" to be a tragedy as well as a melodrama.
To an Athenian, at least, Thucydides' History may well have looked more like a tragedy than it does at first to us.
For "Art," by design, is not so much about art as it is about friendship, and though it has been insistently labeled as a comedy, the playwright has called it a tragedy as well.
The Tempts wish it would rain not to ease a drought but to hide their tears; Dee Clark can't hide his tears, so he imagines they "must be raindrops falling from my eyes/For a man ain't supposed to cry"; the raindrops that keep fallin' on B.J. Thomas's head or raining in Annie Lennox's head "like a tragedy" are, well, a drag.
