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But to me, what's most baffling and most tragic about this is that it misses the whole point of being human.
We had a tragic case of an honor killing within Turkey's Armenian community just a few months ago.
Now often, a result of Capgras syndrome is tragic.
And this was the result of the tragic loss of lives of people who could not get into them.
The results can be tragic.
The tragic thing is that we're losing so much of this linguistic diversity all the time.
So, I want to tell you about a tragic problem and a breakthrough technology.
But on a continent where the average age is 17, these tragic events seem almost prehistoric.
Now, that's a funny little clip, but it'd be even funnier if it weren't so tragic and if it weren't so true.
And when they don't, the results can be tragic.
It's tragic.
This is equally tragic.
And he was this incredibly tragic figure, but he was a window into the extent to which our memories make us who we are.
I think this is a matter of a globally tragic, astoundingly ridiculous mistake, rather than a wave of evil.
These are terrible and tragic figures.
Covering the tragic tune with something different, something radically different.
Will eventually joined a gang and committed a number of very serious crimes, including, most seriously of all, a horrible, tragic murder.
The first chapter of every case is exactly the same, and it is tragic.
In my book "The Blank Slate," I argued that the human prospect is more tragic than utopian and that we are not stardust, we are not golden and there's no way we are getting back to the garden.
On March 11, 2011, I watched from home, as the rest of the world did, as the tragic events unfolded in Japan.
Otherwise, that little girl isn't going to look like that little girl anymore, and surely that's as tragic as having the photo damaged.
The workers here often endure tragic sexual abuse at the hands of their customers.
So what seems like an eccentric if tragic joke about Harry becomes a way to spread ethnic hatred.
It gave me faith that we, the people, do have the power to stop this tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food on a colossal scale, if we make noise about it, tell corporations about it, tell governments we want to see an end to food waste, we do have the power to bring about that change.
It was an incredibly tragic event.
I found myself growing outraged that someone like Nathaniel could have ever been homeless on Skid Row because of his mental illness, yet how many tens of thousands of others there were out there on Skid Row alone who had stories as tragic as his, but were never going to have a book or a movie made about them that got them off the streets?
Two weeks later, I was painting a house down the end of Pete's street when I heard the tragic news.
As I wandered around between the tradies and the community members, I started hearing some tones of another underlying tragic level.
The educator Parker Palmer calls it "the tragic gap," tragic not because it's sad but because it's inevitable, and my friend Dick Nodel likes to say, "You can hold that tension like a violin string and make something beautiful."
JM: Well, you know, ugly, I mean, powerful and tragic and horrific and everything, but it was also as, in nature, an enormous event that was transformed after the fact into this residue, and like many other ruins — you go to the ruins of the Colosseum or the ruins of a cathedral someplace — and they take on a new meaning when you watch the weather.
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