If they lost the opportunity to immerse themselves in nature, that would be a monumental tragedy.

The ad men (and women) will reduce this monumental tragedy to crisp, poll-tested campaign sound bites.

A brief epilogue, set in the United States, brings the monumental tragedy even closer to home.

Neither Lyndon Johnson nor Richard Nixon was honest with the American people about Vietnam, and the result was a monumental tragedy.

That is a monumental tragedy for our country, is it not?

It is the failure of these systems that has led to the monumental tragedies we have seen this morning.

The accident was a monumental tragedy.

This is a tale of monumental personal tragedy that's as sad as it is stunning.

Set in Brooklyn in 1938, the story juggles monumental tragedy, namely the Holocaust, with the personally unsettling but relatively trivial specter of sexual impotence.

The weekend events will likely prove to be monumental folly as well as monumental tragedy.