Word: tragically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...teenager, I was outraged to hear of the squeal rule. Most of my friends who are on birth-control pills received them through counseling at Government-funded clinics. Without the secrecy that was promised by the clinics, my best friends would have been added to the list of tragic stories of unwed mothers...
Many Lebanese are also frankly cynical about an investigation into a single massacre, however tragic it was. The 1975-76 civil war in Lebanon took 100,000 lives, and killings are still committed with impunity every day. People reason that it is both unrealistic and unwise to expect that justice will be done, since there has been no justice in Lebanon for so long a time. Many Lebanese Christians and Muslims agree that it is more important for Gemayel to disarm the Phalangist militia and work toward national reconciliation than to try and bring to justice those responsible...
...have to be clinical, like a coroner dissecting a corpse." His scalpel reveals a Churchill swollen with hubris and a stingy Maugham pathologically concealing his homosexuality from the public. Morgan, like his colleagues, perceives his subjects in novelistic terms: "What I am looking for in a subject is a tragic life with many setbacks and recoveries, and with a transforming experience...
Then last week's game began, and in a few hours, give or take $25 million worth of TV commercials, the most irritating pro football season gave way to the most entertaining Super Bowl. The heroic and tragic figures, Washington Fullback John Riggins and Miami Quarterback David Woodley, were clear-cut and equally attractive in different ways, unlike management's Jack Donlan and labor's Ed Garvey. The Redskins won straightforwardly, 27-17, and the Dolphins lost that...
...precisely how many Palestinians--many of them women and children--were killed. But numbers don't really matter. The fact of the massacre speaks for itself, and eloquently enough to haunt not just survivors of the carnage but also an entire country that has assumed "indirect responsibility" for this tragic bit of history...