tragic ** , also: tragical BrE

Minutes later, my daughter called from California with tragic news.

My mother and I have been through some tragic things.

To most of his friends, he was always a tragic figure.

A lot of the private life had a tragic side.

She let her hands play in the hair of the tragic boy.

I was seen as a tragic figure and people were very kind to me.

Her death is a tragic loss to all of us.

How tragic for his life to be taken so suddenly.

Eyes which too often showed a tragic light in them.

I am sure this will make a great tragic story.

Kind of a tragic family she's married her way into.

As the days pass by, things take a tragic turn.

Let him know that something good has come out of his tragic death.

And it was here we found the tragic answer to what had happened to his people.

"Their value will be a tragic problem for those who come after me."

She was clearly looking forward to the future, which made her death all the more tragic.

She was married and had one child at the time of her tragic death.

By his own account, he has led a tragic life.

Particularly tragic is the high cost of treatment, she said.

"We are so far away, and yet something this tragic would bring us together."

Other times they lose themselves in different, more tragic ways.

But a growing number have been moving or tragic cases.

I've talked to some of them and I know how tragic the situation is.

And it is all the more tragic when done by someone of our own race.

The most recent example is the tragic situation in Japan.

To my mind this is one of the most tragical facts in all history.

When she opens her mouth, it is tragical, but you cannot help thinking of a horse.

Put a trap like that into the midst of a tragical story?

It would be the most tragical disappointment of my life."

Many of them have written the recent tragical history of the place.

He took this so much to heart, that the appearance of his affliction became tragical.

The suffering of the tragical dolls is transformed into beauty.

Tragical It was, and she must leave him desolate.

Cody takes the tragical ending apart, but Boulder later reads it.

The descendants bow to their predecessors memory who died during the war or in tragical accidents.

That the tragical fate of Tom, also, has too many times had its parallel, there are living witnesses, all over our land, to testify.

His sudden and tragical death therefore caused a wide and deep sensation.

Pity me not, I said to my family, and wore a cover-up that fell in tragical folds.

I must tell you this tragical history.

But one can get beyond tragedy-- beyond the state of feeling tragical, I mean.

I have a few details to give respecting the tragical death of Kleber.

It's very funny when well done, and makes a perfect jumble of tragical comical stuff to laugh over.

If they could only speak, at what absurd, indecorous, and tragical scenes had they not been present!

I have often wondered that no authentic account has ever been given of that bloody and tragical scene.

What absurd or tragical adventure had befallen him?

It is too comical to be tragedy, too tragical to be comedy.

Then Ms. Galliéni went through what she calls her "tragical period."

"Then it will be the last thing that we can do for our tragical country," said David, who had taken to using Booth's grander phrases.

Was I very pathetic and tragical.