The phrase "human tragedy" refers to a sad and devastating event that affects people's lives in a negative way. It often involves suffering, loss, and pain experienced by a group of individuals or communities. Full definition
Does access to the prevention of human tragedy justify the possibility of misuse? (newscientist.com)
Yet it is precisely this first - hand element that allows his depiction of a horrendous human tragedy to hit its targets on such a gut level. (theguardian.com)
Maybe that grand goal of the good society is brought into being not by vigilante types, nor yet by romantic revolutionaries, nor by any visionary ideologies and scenarios of the right or left, but by the ambiguous resolution of human tragedies in thousands of little courtrooms across the land. (religion-online.org)