Word: tragically
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...cases of AIDS are really only the tragic, lethal tip of an epidemiological iceberg. Many more individuals, perhaps five to ten times as many, are currently suffering some effects of infection with the AIDS virus. Epidemiologists project that between one and two million individuals have been "exposed" to the virus, meaning they carry the virus and can infect others despite the fact that they currently are healthy...
...this supernatural world view is nothing less than tragic. On a personal level, it is tragic for the Steel's to have their sorrow compounded by insinuations that their daughter got what she deserved. And on the political level, it is tragic because it encourages politicians to speak of divine evils instead of working to combat serious problems such as drunk driving...
Segal got the idea for writing the play when he read Cicero for his own edification. "It occurred to me that the end of his life was a ready-made tragic drama," Segal says...
...asked to talk about women in political camps. I didn't speak about the human rights activists who were in the camp, but about Maria Semyonova. This woman, a member of the True Orthodox Church, had spent almost her entire life in camps. I referred to her "tragic fate." While I was not speaking of just or unjust sentencing or anything else about the verdicts, I did use the word tragic. This was said to be a "slander" because Semyonova had been correctly sentenced...
From the Impossible Dream of 1967, to the heart-wrenching 1975 World Series, to the tragic one-game playoff with the New York Yankees in 1978, the Boston Red Sox certainly have tormented their fans...