Sentences with phrase «more than a tragedy»

Only if we think long and hard about ways to make hockey safer will Jack's injury be more than a tragedy for him, his family, his teammates, friends, and community.

But the net effect of watching Cagney dance like this is a state of constant suspense, albeit in the sense that one eagerly anticipates a punchline more than a tragedy.

The school shooting in Connecticut was nothing more than a tragedy.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, built in 1990, is defined by something more than tragedy.

Not exact matches

More than anything, my eyes were opened to the tragedies that can occur when drivers are distracted.

But uncertainty lays fertile ground for the seeds of desperation, and the Times newsroom has repeatedly found itself a struggling protagonist in the more than decade - long tragedy of American newspapers.

A student who says she reported warning signs about the suspect in the Parkland school tragedy more than a year before last week's mass shooting said her friendship with him quickly turned to fear in the years leading up to... Read more than a year before last week's mass shooting said her friendship with him quickly turned to fear in the years leading up to... Read MoreMore

Following that tragedy, the Dow dropped 1,400 points and needed more than two months to get back to even.

More than 40 schools in Philadelphia and South Jersey have students planning to walk out of class Wednesday to protest mass shootings like the Parkland, Fla., tragedy.

Recalling an in - depth conversation more than a dozen years ago with John Mearsheimer, the author of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, He Yafei says, «In the beginning if you pin each

It's one poll, but for a gun - control movement anxious to turn the tragedy in Parkland, Fla., into action to prevent further bloodshed, it suggests the political backdrop is more favorable than at any point in the past decade.

Grief is the appropriate response in times of tragedy, though some expressions are more appropriate than others.

The vagueness unnerves Jeffrey more than the televised tragedy.

The salvation of a single soul, he says, is worth more than all the poetry, drama and tragedy ever written.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

Accidents and tragedy will be a part of modern society regardless... we see it far more often on the highway than we do in the home from accidental shooting and I am not talking about the criminal activity of drinking and driving.

The kingdom which is not of this world is a more dangerous peril to the kingdoms of the world than any competing worldly kingdom [Beyond Tragedy, Scribner's, 1937, pp. 284 - 5].

Corrections please,,, My say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!

Edwin Muir, a poet from the Orkney Islands spoke of the tragedy of there being nothing more than words in the Calvinist form of Christianity with which he was familiar:

You're going to deal with tragedy in a way that is more hopeful than if you're just business partners doing stuff together.»

They're a resilient community, but they're facing so much right now that I think it's really important now more than ever to know that Christians around the world are standing with them in this hour of horror and of tragedy.

If you're putting unrealistic mythical expectations on your relationship, it might end up more Greek tragedy than romantic comedy.

Nor should we fail to acknowledge the tragedy and injustice when priests who have been faithful for many years are subjected to public disgrace by the exposure of, or even no more than the unverified accusation of, a wayward act twenty or thirty years ago.

It is this belief more than any other that redeems life from solitude and fate from tragedy.

The tragedy of human behavior is that so long as we seek to build ourselves up, to overcome our deficiencies, we in fact only spin webs around ourselves, isolate ourselves more deeply than ever from one another, and reveal our desperate need for the love of God.

My say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!

The LDS church has more than apologized and even erected a monument to the victims of that tragedy.

As for shaving one's head, that is not much different from styling one's hair — not quite in the same league as a surgical procedure, but, yes, wanting to improve one's appearance, as long as it does not become an obsession [I am thinking of the heart - wrenching tragedy of Michael Jackson], is no more culpable than wanting to improve one's mind or any other natural attribute.

(CNN)- The September 11 attacks were more than a national tragedy; the event also set off spiritual crises.

And when you are facing a tragedy, when a catastrophe strikes in your life, it is much more comforting to know that Jesus is God, than just some prophet.

I do not practice any religion and I think what he is doing is a beautiful gesture and I am sure is appreciated more than words can express by the victims of these and any other tragedies.

His life is more than a mythical event; it is a human life which ended in the tragedy of crucifixion.

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.

Where I live now, people signal — that is, use the tragedies as an occasion to display their rectitude and concern (okay, there's more than a bit of this in prayer requests as well).

What a tragedy it is when we collectively dismiss the goals and aspirations of the entrepreneur, the artist, the writer, the thinker, because their world is more self - consuming than the simple bureaucratic policy wonk would have us believe.

The study of Jewish history has moved from beyond the periphery to the very center and, indeed, being inevitably seen as a tragedy leading to a unique catastrophe, has some claims to being more widely discussed today than almost any other aspect of modern European history.

The false and misleading statement that «Hitler's Reich was no more than a paradigm instance of a broader and deeper continent «wide phenomenon» flows from the author's treatment of the late 1930s as the climax of a Greek tragedy.

Guys, this tragedy is more than the loosing the lives of 6 Americans.

The Friar upbraids him for his adolescent hot blood and sternly admonishes him, using words whose message scarcely means much more than «haste makes waste» but whose musical phrasing immediately awakens the audience to the real meaning of the couple's tragedy:

What is deeply troubling about tragedy is that it involves more than our individual will to action, or our intellects; it involves character flaws so grave that they permeate the actions of complete families and whole communities.

listening, watching, shaking my head with more tears of grief than joy (some of that are my own tragedies).

For courage can not reside in a man's passive, pessimistic submission to reality as it is — in a world of possibility and tragedy — any more than it resides in the dogmatic absolutist's applause for that reality as allegedly containing «the Good.»

In the narratives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the chosen ones are not natural heroes, stronger or more eminent than others, like the heroes of myth or tragedy.

But this is little more than a scratch on the surface of the great evil to which people are capable, and I believe that it is these sorts of public tragedies that keep our eyes averted from the truly horrific crimes that are being committed every day in the basements and back alleys of our own cities.

After the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than 4,000 pastors signed on to a letter initiated by 12 clergy in Newtown calling for commonsense solutions to reduce gun violence.

It is a tragedy that so many of our leaders today (and all of those ignorant fools who elect them on the basis of their religious beliefs) are guided by their brainwashed, dogmatic belief in what amounts to no more than a very elaborate story of Santa Claus.

In fact, a more historically accurate dramatization of the Scopes Trial than Inherit the Wind might have been far richer and more interestingand might also have given its audiences a genuine dramatic tragedy to watch.

Kerrin now sees her father more as a human tragedy than as a cruel person.

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.

But some of the parents, survivors and others affected by the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were more interested in firm action to prevent future assaults than a presidential visit.