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For Pablo Picasso, the tragedy sparked a frenzied period of work in which he produced a massive anti-war mural, aptly titled "Guernica."
It can make war seem like tragedy or farce.
This was a tragedy no one saw coming, but when they looked back, they realized the warning signs were there just no one understood what they were seeing.
And Haiti, if you've ever been there, is just a tragedy.
The play is an odd sort of tragedy, lacking either the abrupt brutality or all-consuming romance that characterize Shakespeare’s other work in the genre.
Her fate is one example of how tragedy could have been easily avoided, and shows the ripple effect of Hamlet’s toxic mind games.
Similar warning signs of tragedy are constantly overlooked throughout the play.
At other points, tragedy stems from deliberate duplicity– as when a case of mistaken identity leads to yet more bloodshed.
These moments leave us with the uncomfortable knowledge that tragedy evolves from human error– even if our mistake is to leave things undecided.
I wish I could say this tragedy was an isolated incident, but sadly, that's not the case.
As a result, what could have been a tragedy became a success story.
Now I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it is a tragedy if we're not doing frontline exploratory science in a huge portion of the planet.
Let us ensure that this terrible tragedy, the worst in the history, may never happen again and also will never, ever be forgotten.
You know, Aristotle says a tragedy is that moment when the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
And our committee, which consisted of a lot of hard scientists, did feel at the end of that study that the absence of play and a progressive suppression of developmentally normal play led him to be more vulnerable to the tragedy that he perpetrated.
But the good thing to come out of this tragedy is the attention that the story brought towards the plight of threatened wild animals.
And we can see the tragedy of Africa in the first few bars here.
The real tragedy of the last century is this: if you think about the world's population as a giant computer, a massively parallel processor, then the great tragedy has been that billions of our processors have been off line.
The resulting tragedy traumatizes the family for years to come.
Burma is in chains, Zimbabwe is a human tragedy, in Sudan thousands of people have died unnecessarily for wars that we could prevent.
I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.
At the other end of the spectrum, you've got tragedy and tragic art.
And I think that is the message of tragedy to us, and why it's so very, very important, I think.
You see the tragedy in South Africa there.
And the great irony and tragedy of our time is that a lot of the general public thinks that science is still arguing about that.
But the tragedy is that we have attained this speed at the cost of depth of words.
As I started to get to know this mysterious person who was my kid, my fixed, tight story of tragedy loosened.
This is a story of the commons, and also how to avoid the so-called tragedy of the commons.
We need to save ourselves from the tragedy of the commons.
The tragedy of that protracted stagnation isn't sufficiently recognized, I think.
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