Sentences with phrase «less than a tragedy»

It is nothing less than a tragedy because their small mindedness is preventing them from experiencing the ocean while those who venture to explore beyond themselves are rewarded for their willingness to broaden their minds beyond their limited experiences.

Not to be outdone, David Remnick in the New Yorker weighed in with «The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism.

Not exact matches

Technology used without talent is less than a tool — it's a tragedy.

Anyone unmoved by such a tragedy is less than human.

All human beings face contradictions and sharp differences within their souls, but few have the conflicts in their souls put on display as a national tragedy no less than a personal contradiction.

The prophets from Amos on are forced to reinterpret the meaning of the present in terms of an immediate future to be charged with tragedy — but a tragedy no less the result of divine action than the great formative event of redemption from Egypt.

This imminent tragedy is deemed to be no less Yahweh's doing than the great formative event of redemption from Egypt, or political self - fulfillment under the David - Zion covenant.

The tragedy sliced to the heart of Laramie with no less emotional force than the gay - bashing murder of Wyoming freshman Matthew Shepard in 1998.

Less than two weeks after the the tragedy, United played their first game, with blanks where the names of the players should have been in the matchday programme.

Eighteen months after the tragedy, they showed fewer signs of PTSD, less depression, and their friends considered them more mature and better adjusted than they had been prior to the cataclysmic event.

His is nothing less than a hideous, horrific and monuemental Shakesperean tragedy that shall not end well.

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But this is less a play about bestiality than a modern version of Greek tragedy: an Oedipus Rex for the affluent society.

Although the resulting mystery is less intriguing than the unsettling atmosphere that surrounds it, the screenplay by director Aaron Katz (Land Ho) probes the aftermath of tragedy in fresh ways, while Kirke and Kravitz each find a balance between exterior strength and internal vulnerability in their respective characters.

It's a near - unavoidable byproduct of addressing failure with anything less than the weight of tragedy.

Less of a social satire about the perils of modern technology than an over-the-top heave of ideas about the obsessive need to be noticed and (literally) liked, Tragedy Girls isn't a deep meditation on much.

At times the spectacle seems distracting from the human story, at other times his determination to ground the action in human terms (with all the mortal dangers involved) becomes alarmingly intense, less a superhero action movie than a grim urban tragedy (Berg's on - the - job directorial training on the medical drama Chicago Hope comes in handy here).

Less comic than his previous films (although what is left is wonderfully dark), Three Billboards feels like a return to the tone of McDonagh's early plays, particularly the tragedy within Beauty Queen of Leenane.

In the hands of a less capable filmmaker than writer - director Raymond De Felitta, the epic comic - tragedy of it could merely have referred to the film itself, which is laden with the potential to be everything that such small, personal, indie filmmaking is: self - conscious, sentimental, precious.

To Hirschhorn, the piece is less a meditation on tragedy than stupidity: the hubris of the captain in veering too close to shore; his decision to abandon ship.

Likewise, the opening Pace's second space at 9 West 57th Street in October 1963 is referenced alongside the tragedy of President John F. Kennedy's assassination less than a month later, implying that all of these historical milestones are of equal importance — ahem!

For people in less advanced countries with poor infrastructure, I wonder there is nothing we can do rather than donation after tragedy?

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Despite the call for gun control, some local gun shop owners are reporting an uptick in firearm training signups since the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School less than two weeks ago.

Despite the call for gun control, some local gun shop owners are reporting an uptick in firearm training signups since the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School less than two weeks ago.

He was originally expelled and arrested in February — less than a week after the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

• Successfully averted what could have become a terrible tragedy by alerting the driver of a bridge collapse site that the bus had less than a mile to reach.

«The biggest tragedy [in our company] is less than 10 percent of the agents have some sort of an organized database.

My argument is simple, less people die from homelessness than would die in tragedies that would be prevented by code.