Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's response to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority's peace deal with Hamas would be funny if it weren't tragic.
If it wasn't tragic it might be comic, that there is so little consensus among politicians, bankers and economists about whether the weakness in the economy stems more from inadequate supply or weak demand.
But it isn't just the tragic nature of the Titanic that captivates the Byrons.
It's a wonder he didn't explicitly adopt this tragic view of reality earlier on.
"It is only through swift and determined action against those who use violence to silence t the media that the tragic frequency with which journalists are assassinated in the Philippines can be reduced, " he concluded.
Hadiya Pendleton's tragic death wasn't someone's paranoid fantasy, and it wasn't lighting striking.
"So it wasn't a great shift to adopt the tragic view, and it's much healthier, " he says.
Although the Nick of the novel arrives at a new and tragic understanding of the American Dream, the Nick on screen can't be more than an earnest observer, since any vestige of the story's tragic sense has been replaced by melodramatic sadness.
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The tragic figure in that situation isn't the dealer, it's his little mate.
He said the way we ended the war in Iraq was "tragic" -- doesn't have a plan to end the war in Afghanistan.
It's my first trip to Baghdad and I've been struck as much by how calm it can be when bombs aren't going off, as by how desperate and tragic it is, even at the best of times.
Here, in a nutshell--although I didn't realize it at the time--was the tragic paradox of the student-rebels who eventually sprang to action all over the country.
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"I can't even imagine, the loss is so big and so tragic, " said Ms. Glauber's aunt Ruchel Bochner, 56, of Brooklyn.
It wasn't apparent to me how many lives he touched until after this tragic event.
"We've had some very tragic cases and it's because we hadn't taken enough notice that we have re-evaluated how we do business here, " said Chief Landsdowne .
We've had some very tragic cases and it's because we haven't taken enough notice, and because of that we re-evaluated how we do business here in San Diego.
We have the tendency to think of life in Africa as something equal parts exotic and tragic: shantytowns, food lines, runny noses, ripped T-shirts.
"The message from the state, which is tragic, is we'll pay you for shelter but we won't pay you for rent subsidy, " he said.
But the statute doesn't define "provokes, " and that ambiguous word may hold the key to the outcome of this tragic case.
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