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In October 1820, his reign finally reached its tragic conclusion.
Fortunately the weapon wasn't loaded and no one was hurt, but other times "oops" moments are tragic, such as last year in South Africa, where an anti-aircraft cannon had a "software glitch," and actually did turn on and fired, and nine soldiers were killed.
I mean as tragic as his death was in a railway station, it was so consistent with his life, you know?
A plant that was supposed to end famine created one of the most tragic ones.
While these past weeks have been a time of national exhilaration in this country, it would be tragic if you thought this meant your job was done.
At the other end of the spectrum, you've got tragedy and tragic art.
And I suppose I'm arguing that we should learn a little bit about what's happening in tragic art.
But here's where the parable is so useful, because for weeks after her diagnosis, I felt gripped by despair, locked in the story that all of this was tragic.
When we label a person tragic or angelic, bad or good, we rob them of their humanity, along with not only the messiness and complexity that that title brings, but the rights and dignities as well.
In spite of a very tragic life, one is happy in moments which are very few and far between.
Well, of course, they did and Voodoo is simply the distillation of these very profound religious ideas that came over during the tragic Diaspora of the slavery era.
The fear has chilled professional interaction so thousands of tragic errors occur because doctors are afraid to speak up: "Are you sure that's the right dosage?"
We were in the papers, we're still in the news three years later, but, unfortunately, something tragic happened right after.
And I'm telling a story that many of you know, because Steve's columns became the basis for a book, which was turned into a movie, with Robert Downey Jr. acting as Steve Lopez, and Jamie Foxx as Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, the Juilliard-trained double bassist whose promising career was cut short by a tragic affliction with paranoid schizophrenia.
American troops were sent to protect the relief shipments, but they were eventually drawn into the conflict, and after the tragic battle in Mogadishu, they were withdrawn.
Most of us worry about things we can't control, like war, terrorism, the tragic earthquake that just occurred in Haiti.
Ethan Zuckerman: Obviously, this is a tragic situation, and it actually gets worse.
Now I've got to tell you something really tragic about microbes.
It was so tragic.
The historical trial of Henriette Deluzy-Desportes and the Duc de Praslin is a tragic and compelling story that, I feel, had the potential to be a fantastic film, but failed.
How tragic, that a potential laugh riot got so sorrowfully wasted.
Overall, this work is tragic in that the acting talent of Steve Carrell and Wanda Sykes isn't exhibited because of the bland characters they portray, and that it was so poorly written that it skews and clouts many of the film's attempted themes, and makes a mockery of the first film.
Los Angeles physician Tom Reed (Vincent Ventresca) survives a tragic auto accident but ends up going to prison in the high desert of California.
The film was just one beautiful tragic scene after another, with no involving narrative thread and no humanity.
I thought that Nicole Eggert,(Diana Pennington),"Thank You, Good Night",'01 played a very convincing role as a young girl who had a tragic loss in her life and meets up with some characters who want her to guide them up the mountain.
How tragic it is that with so many infinitely superior comedic talents in Australia Yahoo is given such vehicles to express his brand of puerile school yard comedy.
Add a love story too and a tragic relationship between mother and daughter ending.
A couple decide to live in his father's love nest so they can write a book/article/newsletter on his fling with a famous tragic Hollywood starlet.
How he managed to get a beautiful whore to fall deeply in love with him is a mystery, as is the eternal devotion and tragic sense of betrayal expressed by his jobless wife.
Despite the tragic of this war, there is no emotion at all in the movie.
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