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Example sentences for: tragedy

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As a dramatist, Miller not only has no sense of humor, he also fails to grasp how changes in tone and texture can be used to make tragedy tolerable.
As the people of East Timor voted Monday on their future, the International Herald Tribune ran a comment from Hong Kong blaming the West for exacerbating the tragedy by its "romantic passion for encouraging the pettiest of nationalisms, not least that of the 800,000 inhabitants of half a small island in an archipelago populated by 200 million."
A crazed and abusive former Grateful Dead manager from whose unparental loins it is Love's tragedy to have sprung.
T ragic Violence: Needless to say, tragedy is often very violent.
Tragedy doesn't stir violent urges but rather inhibits them.