Sentences with phrase «just as tragedy»

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Ryan's youth was marked by tragedy after his father's death when he was just 16, and the future Congressman funded his bachelor's degree with the Social Security benefits he received as a result.

As nursing home patients kept going to Memorial Regional Hospital's emergency room, medical staff there caught on to the unfolding tragedy just steps away.

@CP: before the age of 24 I buried my Mom and 2 children... tragedy didn't make me believe then and it certainly won't make me believe now... if anything those tragedies made me question what kind of an evil monster god really is if he allows 3 innocent people to die horrible deaths (my Mom was an avid believer and went to her grave believing she was going to be with god... it was a comfort for her and eased her mind... I just don't see it as a necessity)

However, Tony will not be trying it himself: «No, I decided as a teenager that I wanted to be an athlete and I was brought up in the era of George Best - fantastic talent but ended in tragedy because of his abuse of alcohol - and I thought, if I want to be an athlete, the quickest way is just not to bother.»

That he didn't bother leads me to believe that he is just pimping his own religion, using a tragedy as a convenient backdrop.

So all of us around the country who are NOT putting up crosses but are just as devastated by this tragedy, we're just haters, right?

Suffering, especially on a large scale, is always shocking, of course, but natural disasters have happened before and individual tragedies can affect families and just as deeply.

Maybe we need (this is very tentative) to alert ourselves more than we do to the tragic elements lying just beneath the surface of the parabolic, and even to receive what is offered to us as tragedy as parable, at least in an extended use of that already comprehensive concept.

God is on our side in life's tragedy, in that he shares it with us, along with all our longing for happiness, so that this longing counts for all it is worth in the divine life, is just as real there as in us.

But» as so often happens» God brings triumph out of tragedy, and in the years that followed, he did just that.

By this Buber does not mean tragedy in the classical Aristotelian sense of the downfall of a hero, but rather tragedy in a profounder sense of two men living in opposition to each other, each just as that which he is.

Just as we were learning despair and tragedy from daily events, the theological equipment was there to help us interpret what was happening.

But I suspect it won't happen unless a tragedy befalls them or they meet someone who has already been indoctrinated... just as happened with Dan.

In sufficient number of causes to make us humble, we discover good points in the cause which time has erased, just as one often learns more from the slain hero of a tragedy than from some brassy Fortinbras who comes in at the end to announce the victory and proclaim the future disposition of affairs.

In the days immediately following the tragedy, officials at Columbia and Fordham insisted that their Saturday Division I - AA football game in the Bronx would be played: Football at their level is part of the educational process, they said, and the game will go on, just as, say, physics labs and literature seminars went on.

It is just a tragedy and I see needless suffering from these mommies as if they have a personal failure because everything went wrong when they were told everything would go right, that it is natural etcetera and the reality is we have 22 % of women who either have primary lactation failure and / or delayed lacto genesis too.

Nor should the present wailing lay the foundation for future tragedies — just as past wailings appeared to have laid the foundation for this one — by adopting the sweet tragedy of wailing without thinking.

«Isa Muazu's removal from the UK and potential death on a flight or upon arrival in Nigeria is not only a tragedy but an end to the UK's reputation as a country with humane, civilised, just policies and government,» he said.

Just as he did following the Bloody Sunday inquiry, the prime minister issued a frank and full apology for the Hillborough tragedy and its aftermath to a silent, noticeably shocked Commons.

«DWI tragedies don't just affect those involved, they impact the families of victims as well.

These stories remind us that we must remember the tragedies of WWII so as not to repeat those events; however, we must also remember and honor the silent heroes of WWII upon whose paths we must continue to follow in order to build tolerant and just communities in our districts, in the Great State of New York, and all over the world.»

I found it very depressing and hard to push through as it was just one tragedy after another.

Then, just as the characters reach their happiest point, sudden tragedy strikes and the film cuts ahead seven years.

Jordan, as a swaggering anti-hero whose tragedy grounds «Black Panther» in lived pain, just about steals the movie.

The fine line between failure and success is as thin as the thread that separates love and tragedy, and in this tale of a self - destructive artist attempting to regain his identity after a harrowing bout with commercial success, one man finds out just how difficult it can be to built a stable future on the foundation of an uncertain past.

Just as Ricky begins warming to life with Bella (the gruff Hector largely evades him), tragedy comes out of the blue, and Ricky is to be retrieved by child welfare.

Hutterite commune [his blistering speech is deeply moving and is certainly the heart of the film's message] and Niall McGinnis as Vogal, the German soldier who finds his conscience just a little too late - his demise being the quiet tragedy of a man who wanted a return to a simple life baking bread, instead of being an unthinking killer!

Selznick served John Huston — the right man for this picture — his walking papers early on for correctly identifying the love story in Hemingway's novel as just a metaphor for the tragedy and irony of WWI's carnage, subbing Huston with second - stringer Charles Vidor, who meekly agreed to amplify the alleged love between Lt. Henry and Cat while pushing all manner of hysterical spectacle to the wings of the proscenium.

I thought this movie was a good representation of a tragedy even though Aruba does come off looking badly but that is just my opinion... and I do realise there are similar such incidents all over the world that does not receive the same acclaim as this one did but then such is life..

When the townspeople see their tragedy enacted in front of them, it's as if they've just seen it on the news or read it in the newspaper; it reinforces the events and makes them more real.

As the Meyerowitz clan readies for a long - hoped - for exhibit at Harold's former university — albeit, one he's insulted by because it's a faculty show, not a single event dedicated just to him — tragedy strikes, and Harold is forced to reorient his entire existence.

Just as things are getting serious between Tony and Eilis, she is called back to her home to cope with a family tragedy.

In harrowing depictions, Haitian writer / director Raoul Peck just shows how the tragedy affected one man, Augustin Muganza (Idris Elba, of HBO's «The Wire»), and his family during the hundred days in the spring of 1994 where the Tutsis were being viciously slaughtered with guns and machetes by the extremist Hutu military, as well as Hutu citizens spurned on by the urgings of the radio to «stomp on the cockroaches», fueling the fans of decades old resentment among the Hutu majority.

It's a tragedy when heinous acts are committed through pure, unadulterated jealousy, especially when completely unfounded, but as presented here, he is so confused by so many factors, there is neither love nor hate in his acts, just a lack of inhibitions induced by potent narcotics.

In a year marked by personal tragedy, games proved to be not just a great escape, but a source of solace and sympathy as well.

It's pretty obvious Inarritu marvels the human condition as it relates to tragedy, but deep down, he doesn't really want to wallow in it just for the sake of wallowing.

Indeed, John Wick holds up years later as a straightforward yet savoury revenge drama with tragedy to spare (our protagonist is spurred to action by not only a dead wife and a stolen car but a murdered puppy, too), backstory that knows not to overstay its welcome (Wick is an erstwhile member of an international assassin class that gathers for respite in plush underground lodgings and abides by a strict professional code), and action that doesn't quit, all sauced up with a just - slightly smug sense of self - awareness.

Only in this case, the tragedies are of Walter's own making, as he has just completed a twelve - year prison sentence for paedophilia.

At eighteen, she's bull - headed and a little spoiled, and, cleverly, she's introduced throwing a tantrum over having a piano bought for her by her parents, as if to sum up the pettiness of a generation's concerns just before real tragedy landed on their doorsteps.

This attention was well deserved, as Jane Campion's direction is deftly subtle and lyrical in its exploration of love and tragedy and the performances hit just the right notes.

It does well that LaBute allows Alice Eve to flex her acting muscles and not just be used as scenery (JJ Abrams and whoever made that shitty Sex and the City 2 tragedy, I'm talking to you).

Last night's Golden Globes was a bit of a tragedy in just about every form, from Ricky Gervais» strained attempts at edgy humor to the censor happy ad libs to Alejandro G. Inarritu's newest misery machine The Revenant winning all the major prizes, feted as more than it is.

A tragedy has just occurred, their daughter died in an accident, and the family vacation is meant as therapy.

But just as the couple starts talking about having a family, tragedy strikes.

This is just a tragic love story, playing out as some actual tragedy unfolds in the backdrop.

The tragedy easily eclipses Lewellen's other personal setbacks, such as her father's being struck by lightning and Buddy's head being turned by the cute rich kid (Isabelle Fuhrman) who just moved into the mansion next - door for the summer.

Every tragedy is about us, I say, not just, as in Macbeth's case, about a man who succumbs to «vaulting ambition.»

Just as it seemed that public reaction to school shootings had become predictable, and lawmakers» votes on gun control would stay within the status quo, students» responses to the latest tragedy in Parkland, Fla., have been anything but.

To see what I mean, just think of the numerous tragedies this year involving police shootings of unarmed African - Americans in places like Ferguson, Cleveland, Staten Island, and South Carolina, as well as the death of Freddy Gray in Baltimore at the hands of police there.

«As I watched the news at 5 in the morning, I just wanted to make sure residents affected were well cared for after the tragedy,» Yearwood said.