Perhaps Christmas faces a tragic choice in which he can only achieve autonomy from his mother by denying himself her love.

"Do industrial nations face a tragic choice between more jobs and better jobs?"

She reveals to him the tragic choice she was forced to make at Auschwitz.

Earlier this year, against every fiber of her left-leaning body, she effectively said that abortion is always a tragic choice.

He called the choice both symbolic and tragic.

But sometimes life is the wrong choice, a cruel choice, a tragic choice.

She has called abortion a "sad, even tragic choice."

Let the reader imagine that she is Anna Karenina, facing a tragic choice between love and family.

Those of us who were born after the Second World War have not been confronted with tragic choices, whether individual or collective.

The ruling of the Supreme Court is proof that we are not condemned to a tragic choice between security and freedom.