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Example sentences for: tragic

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This tragic background brings me to the story of Wanda Rudolph of Pensacola, Florida, who made a courageous decision on behalf of her family a year ago.
Inside there are attenuated sculptures of wide-eyed damsels, poignant religious icons, and “ordinary people,” stooped and tragic, bearing the whole weight of Hungary’s 20th-century misfortunes.
But Shakespeare isn't right for Bill Clinton, who even in collapse lacks the grandeur of the Bard's tragic heroes and the absurdity of his comic ones.
Spins on the octuplet's death: 1) How tragic.
A building called the Catademnon (pungent gust of ancient Greek syllables!) is certainly not merely a confection, reminding us as it does of condemn, Agamenmon, and Parthenon, all of which relate directly to Vance's hero Emphyrio and his tragic fate.