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Example sentences for: tragedies

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Something seems redundant about this sentence, since Miller's tragedies from the 1940s and '50s exist in a state of near-perpetual revival.
Under his rule, commerce and the arts flourished: Attica’s wine and olive oil were shipped to Italy, Egypt, and Asia Minor in beautiful black-figure pots; the first tragedies ever written were performed at the annual festival of the wine god, Dionysus; and the standard version of Homer’s works was set down.
The death of Joseph Kennedy Jr. in World War II and the assassinations of Jack and Robert were tragedies.
The film has been consciously devised as the flip side of All About Eve (1950)--as a tale of women not bitchily at one another's throats but holding one another together through life's most senseless tragedies.
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.