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Example sentences for: tragedy

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As with Schindler's List , many reviewers celebrate Spielberg for creating a film of "emotional and moral weight" (Richard Schickel, Time ) that awakens the public to a historical tragedy.
This is Eszterhas' tragedy and the dark side of his celebrity.
Notably, he refers to the importance of inclusiveness and openness about risk and uncertainty in decision-making: ‘[I]f [this] becomes the norm, it will be possible to say that good has come out of tragedy’.
You quite clearly state your unwillingness to advise on issues of macroeconomics, but one assumes you are aware of all this "tragedy of the commons" talk that's going around about the Web.
In Bowie's failure to sell big in the States, James Miller isolates what I suspect is the real tragedy in his own critical life.