Words similar to tragic

Example sentences for: tragic

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Analysts noted that this equivocation echoed earlier remarks at Clinton's televised joint press conference with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, in which Clinton said of the Tiananmen Square massacre, "I believe, and the American people believe, that the use of force and the tragic loss of life was wrong."
Though the Globe doesn't say so, it was surely an end that was both tragic and brave.
The conclusion to be drawn from my nine years of reporting on the AIDS epidemic for the New York Native is a somber one: Patients, activists, and uncritical journalists have been led down a tragic primrose path.
The tension between luxury object and tragic icon came to a head in 1958, when Rothko accepted a commission to supply a series of murals for Philip Johnson's Four Seasons restaurant in Mies van der Rohe's new Seagram Building in New York City.
"In the aftermath of the tragic incident in Berlin, this distinction must now be expressed openly and publicly in such a manner to make it clear to the Kurds that we are still their friends."