Word: tragic
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...attacks, Benedict threw himself into the maelstrom. The unlikely venue was his old teaching grounds, the University of Regensburg. His vehicle was a talk about reason as part of Christianity's very essence. His nominal target was his usual suspect, the secular West, which he said had committed the tragic error of discarding Christianity as reason-free. But this time he had an additional villain in his sights: Islam, which he said actually did undervalue rationality and which he strongly suggested was consequently more inclined to violence...
...those afternoons the now-anachronistic Yale Bowl took on a tragic quality, the crisp evening air a harbinger of cold winter—a winter that Yale victories over Harvard somehow seemed to defer...
...made her own happy ending, before she died in Rochester in 1985, at 78. She had cultivated her legend, finding new adherents who treated her with the kind of awe she hadn't been granted in decades, and then only in bedrooms. But I'll give Lulu-Louise a tragic-happy ending. At the climax of the 1930 Prix de beaut?, she is a movie star sitting in a screening room about to watch the rushes of her big song. (It's the sad, teasing "Je n'ai qu'un Amour c'est Toi," and, in another 100th birthday present...
...less persuasive because she seemed so clean-cut. Jesse W. Barron ’09 (Doctor/Trouble) provided some comedic moments, including his performance in the check-up scene in which Hester’s anatomy was examined as if she were an automobile in a repair shop. Tragic irony loomed throughout the play and was appropriately mirrored by the unchanging background of the bridge. Set designer, Elizabeth B. Rose ’08, deserves special praise for her arrangement of furniture and makeshift bridge girders, which aptly illustrated the squalid conditions of Hester and her family...
...judgments about Haditha. Many observers and politicans have already decided those involved are guilty - Democratic Congressman and former Marine John Murtha has claimed that the Marines "killed in cold blood," comments for which Wuterich has filed a defamation lawsuit against Murtha. Others have asserted that civilian casualties are a tragic reality of a morally confusing battlefield. The truth, as it always is in the fog of war, is likely somewhere in between...