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Example sentences for: tragedies

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The world press ran out of new things to say about Kennedy tragedies many years ago, and all the old clichés were revived Monday in the massive coverage of the tragic loss of John F. Kennedy Jr. in a plane crash Friday--the "curse" on the family, its love of adventure, the "end of a dynasty," etc.
Since conservatives tend to oppose pornography and divorce as well as gun control, they get a twofer by attributing tragedies such as the one in Colorado to a degenerating "culture."
How else can people understand tragedies such as Littleton, in which "normal" middle-class kids are not playing baseball or flirting with girls or even duking out their differences after school on the playground; they are nursing monstrous visions of murder and mayhem, while building bombs in their clueless parents' garage.
If a Kennedy is walking by and a busload of people die in a crash, it would make the list of tragedies longer.
Russert's guest, columnist Mike Barnicle, heaped praise and sympathy on Ted Kennedy for having "borne so many" family tragedies.