Sentences with phrase «than a tragedy for»

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.

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

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.

But don't imagine for a moment that current valuation extremes will end in something other than tragedy unless investors shift back from risk - aversion to a fresh round of speculation (which we would infer from market internals).

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.

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.

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.

The tragedy is that, even with the best of intentions, our egoistic narcissism (falling excessively in love with ourselves rather than a Divine [or even a human] Other blinds us to justice which is the minimum requirement for love.

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.

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.

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.

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:

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

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.&raqFor 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.&raqfor that reality as allegedly containing «the Good.»

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.

Over the long haul, studies suggest it's better for our well - being to make meaning of our tragedies than to remain in a permanent state of quest.

Gore begins with hero scientists like Roger Revelle, who first began to imagine the magnitude of this tragedy, and continues through the latest scientific findings, like last fall's revelation that the ice over Greenland seems to be melting much faster than anyone had predicted — news that carries potentially cataclysmic implications for the rate of sea - level rise.

Apparently it is easier and more comforting for gun rights activists to believe outrageous falsehoods than to acknowledge the tragedies that arise as a result of their beloved ideology.

After tragedies like Orlando, we feel that the time is now, more than ever, for businesses (big and small) to articulate and explicitly outline all of the ways that we are allies for our LGBTQ community members.

Burnham is primarily known for his work bringing about the second enquiry into the Hillsborough disaster, saying at the 25th anniversary of the tragedy that taking part in the ongoing fight over Hillsborough was «the privilege of my life» with the past five years «teaching me more than a life in politics».

It was a markedly different tone than that deployed on stage minutes earlier by NRA Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre, who delivered an unbowed defense of gun ownership and lashed out at Democrats — saying they are using the tragedy for «political gain.»

Condemning South Yorkshire Police, which had instigated a cover - up in the aftermath of the tragedy, he described the force as being «rotten to the core» while suggesting that the cover - up had been «advanced in the committee rooms of this House and in the press rooms of 10 Downing Street... What kind of country leaves people, who did no more than wave off their loved - ones to a football match, sitting in a courtroom, 27 years later, begging for the reputation of their sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and fathers?

The biggest tragedy of Labour's tuition fees is that they were introduced without any mechanism to make sure they produced a better deal for students, rather than leaking out into things like the unreformed pensions of baby - boomer academics.

The best intensive care nurses never do become inured to the daily tragedies they witness, and helplessness in the face of imminent catastrophe, especially when it involves a patient not much younger than oneself, is unbearable even for the most stoic of professional personnel.

Whereas the American Red Cross proved that new technologies can efficiently raise money for humanitarian assistance, generating more than $ 5 million via text message donations in the 48 hours following the Haiti earthquake in 2010, the FBI has warned that social media can also be a lucrative platform for scam artists that crop up in the wake of tragedy.

Because after the events of last week and the tragedies that came to pass, I was more grateful than ever for some pink and red hearts.

Alison Brie and Krysten Ritter are still looking for their characters to show up; its a tragedy to see such great comedy performers reduced to little more than eye - candy.

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

The story of an artist living an idyllic life by the sea, whose philosophies are shaken to the core by the (implied) onset of World War III, the film winds its way to a grand conclusion, an image of humble apocalypse that, more than glimpses of the tragedies of war or the destruction of a nuclear holocaust, will stay with you for a lifetime.

But the well - marketed movie — $ 45 million domestic is a strong number for a grim family tragedy — peaked earlier than contenders «Fences» and «Hidden Figures,» which have the late - breaking advantage in voters» minds.

Even when tragedy strikes, it feels more for dramatic purposes than because the story calls for it.

Of the inscription at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Helen Morales, a classicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told the Times,» If we take into account its original context, the quotation is more applicable to the aggressors in the 9/11 tragedy than those honored by the memorial... So my first reaction is that the quotation is shockingly inappropriate for the U.S. victims of the 9/11 attack.

Ronan is usually so good in subtle and emotionally complex roles, but she struggles with a character who is no more than a vessel for the film's themes of idealism, of love, of tragedy.

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.

World Trade Center isn't that film, though; for all the A-level big screen talent involved, its mawkish manipulation is no different than any typically trite TV - movie based on a real - life tragedy.

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That seems to be a bigger tragedy for the Chanels than the fact that people start getting murdered around them one by one.

The cast members are game (especially Smith, who's too likeable for this role, and Robbie, who helps to highlight the actual tragedy of her character), but Ayer's screenplay fails to give them anything more than one - liners to toss out with an indifferent attitude.

As for the story, itself, it careens too wildly between hilarity and genuine tragedy to entirely gel, and often forces characters to behave as per the screenplay's requirements, rather than as they might were they genuine people.

It's a precisely structured, unsubtle, larger - than - life tragedy, the kind of tribute you give to a man whose fate stood for more than one man's fate.

Rape is a «tragedy of youth,» with girls younger than 18 years old accounting for more than 60 percent of all victims, according to a federally funded survey released last week.

Unfortunately the poor cat hoarder does not know their limit and tries to look after more cats than they are capable of, which results in misery and often tragedy for the cats.

After a fashion, the care and spirit that went into its development might be responsible for how much more effectively Valiant Hearts conveys the tragedy of war than any of the military shooter games that market themselves on the valiant heroes at the center of their campaigns.

Corio writes: «I know people having been writing about the death of the avant - garde for more than fifty years, but I mean it this time - it's exhausted, and this is not a tragedy; the vast majority of the world's great masterpieces have been made outside of this model.

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.

The original inspiration for this recently acquired, 55 - minute moving image installation was the Morecambe Bay tragedy of 2004, in which more than 20 Chinese cockle pickers drowned on a flooded sandbank off the coast in northwest England.

This exhibition brings together more than 40 nationally recognized artists from multiple generations, and relies on works across disciplines to help illustrate the awe, tragedy, and potential for transformation when the people rebel.

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

The comments seem to be a venue for people to vent their pre-existing hatred and animosity — whether towards Bush, the US or... rather than dealing with the tragedy and suffering and what can be done now.

Now this may seem odd as a foundational belief — «public goods» are rather universally understood in economics, and the «tragedy of the commons» and related game - theory discussions of, for example, the archetypal «Prisoner's Dilemma», show quite clearly that there are situations where cooperative action produces a better outcome for all than seeking individual selfish advantage.