He said cutting "through the heart of some of the last remaining wild lands would be a real travesty."

The real travesty is that defendants are often sentenced to death with evidence that yields something less than full certainty.

Not that any real travesty was done.

Bridesmaids has its droll moments, but The Artist is infinitely funnier, so the real travesty would have been for the former to win best comedy.

I try to make them see that the real travesty is not that you survived, but that all these people were killed.

"The real travesty here," Mr. Thifault said, "is that the bulk of the investors are hard working, diligent Polish people who work two or three jobs and save every dollar."

That's the real travesty of college sports.

The real travesty is the under-challenging of brighter kids in the comprehensive system.

The real travesty remains, however, that had the police acted quickly upon the detailed information that was forthcoming in the first 24 hours about the identities of the potential perpetrators, the exhaustive trawl for trace evidence some 13 years later could have been averted.

I think it would be a real travesty if that happened.