(1) If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic , no worse than what we invent.

(2) Afterwards, we retired over the road for a really tragic Italian meal.

(3) It was an excellent film - comic in parts, tragic in others, and poetic in others.

(4) Also the killing of these animals is only the last atrocity that they have to suffer throughout their short, tragic lives.

(5) A young boy has died in a tragic accident after he was pulled unconscious from a swimming pool.

(6) Early today, they did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances and said they thought it was a tragic accident.

(7) It was also apparent that an early morning tragic road accident in Monasterevin was to delay its progress.

(8) Safety rules for school trips are to be tightened up in a bid to reduce the potential for tragic accidents.

(9) Hubris, the fatal flaw of a tragic hero which blinds him to the reality of the world, is not exactly in short supply at the present.

(10) The passionate retelling of Shakespeare's tragic story is set in the Italian city of Verona during high summer.

(11) Three more people died on local roads in the past week in two tragic accidents

(12) The tragic lives of parents are never a reason to repeat the tragedy upon their children.

(13) Their deaths are so tragic that several minutes are spent on their horror.

(14) He points out to tragic dramatists that what is seen on the stage makes a deeper impression than what is only narrated.

(15) The excellent cast manage to tease out the humour of the play without undermining its tragic elements.

(16) The tragic , or Shakespearean, version of the story runs something like this.

(17) An explosion which killed a retired couple at their home was a tragic accident, an inquest heard yesterday.

(18) We analysed the plot movements within the parables, distinguishing between tragic and comic parables.

(19) He laughs, mocking the pose a Shakespearean actor might take during a particularly tragic scene.

(20) His later years were miserable and tragic : he was put in jail and died poor in 1968.