Word: tragic
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...resolution bothered me the most: in its attempt to be hard-hitting, it ends up feeling exploitative of the racial dynamics and the tragic death of children...
...blossoming love, an indecent letter, a brutal crime. Misconstrued, they set the stage for a tragic transgression—an unforgivable sin—that will haunt Briony Tallis, the remorseful heroine of Ian McEwan’s novel “Atonement,” for the rest of her life...
...also useful for eavesdropping, gossip, and other guiltily indulgent social activities generally frowned upon unless you’re standing one person behind the other. For all of their virtues, it isn’t surprising that things go horribly awry in the absence of lines. From the tragic stampedes that kill hundreds during the Muslim hajj to the depressingly comical Lamont Dessert Riot of 2005, man-made blunders have shown time after time that chaos ensues once lines fail to make their heralded appearance. If it is part of being civilized to form lines, then it certainly speaks...
...only eight weeks after her wedding to a dashing Brazilian equestrian, Alvaro Alfonso de Miranda Neto, known to his bride and the world's press as "Doda." On the face of it, everything was finally turning rosy for the young woman whose early life had been scarred by the tragic death of her mother, Christina Onassis, and circumscribed by the pressures of enormous wealth - an estimated $600 million she picked up as sole heiress to her mother's fortune. Even so, Athina, the last direct descendant of the legendary Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, had reason to expect more last...
...only woman captive killed by her kidnappers in Iraq has been Margaret Hassan, the British-Iraqi human rights worker; the details of her tragic end remain murky...