Sentences with phrase «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.

Cloistered in red or blue communities and steeped in tell - me - what - I - want - to - hear media coverage, both sides have duped themselves into believing that our current crisis stems from a failure of the political class — «the swamp» — rather than the tragedy of a divided nation.

Gustavsson's return is one that finds something other than tragedy in Orpheus» story: a profusion of painted surfaces, with no beginning or no end, In No Particular Order witnesses the radical freedom that stems from the refusal to heed the injunctions central to contemporary culture: do not touch, do not spend, do not turn around.

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.

It allows for fun cameos: Josh Hutcherson plays McKayla's motorcycling ex, who's accrued a larger Instagram following than the Tragedy Girls through his sensitively pouty posts.

As an English literature major in college, the comedies I read captured my imagination with a far - tighter grip than a tragedy ever could.

Yamcha's death has since become a meme and fans tend to feel more frivolous about it all now — which is why Tien's buddy Chiaotzu is able to leap out and explode himself mid-game and it feels more like a fun Easter egg than a tragedy.

Those bad boys back in grade school now seem more an annoyance than a tragedy, even if a playground fight for Hank Willis Thomas can end in death.

«When I told Tim, «You seem to spend more time studying humor than tragedy,» he said, «Well, there is humor in tragedy.

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.

Fortunately, the result of the mishap was an adventure, rather than a tragedy.

The event that unfolded before my eyes, to me is nothing less than a tragedy that occurred in another dimension, like a dream.

Groupe Atwill - Morin has more than tragedy to thank for its spectacular growth.

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

Ideally this leads to a harmony with nature and conservation — rather than a tragedy — of the commons.

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