Heretofore an action had possessed the breadth of tragedy only if it involved high personages and if it occurred in the public view.

This tragedy occurred when a boat overturned in Clew Bay, drowning thirty two young people.

She eventually concluded that Moon was not driving the car when the tragedy occurred.

Marx also borrowed Engels characterisation of Hegel's notion of the World Spirit that history occurred twice, " once as a tragedy and secondly as a farce " in the first paragraph of his new book.

Further tragedy occurred in 1718, when Caroline miscarried at Richmond Lodge, her country residence.

The first major tragedy occurred in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine near the city's railroad junction on June 28, 1896, when a massive cave-in killed 58 miners.

A further maritime tragedy occurred in 1907, with the loss of the Dundonald and 12 crew off Disappointment Island.

For example, the Cabalantian tragedy occurred four years subsequent to the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo.

I felt that it might be a way to demonstrate that I had not forgotten where it all started and I was hoping that in a small way it would help the healing process of the tragedy that occurred on 5 April 2000.

A critical account of the diaspora is given by Ilan Pappe who argues that " a journey to the moment of transubstantiation, wherever it occurred, would dim the claim for uniqueness the Jewish tragedy -- a claim that has been abused and exploited ..." Pappe goes on to conclude that there is no justification for a Jewish state and that Jews should live together with Arabs under the model of the " one state solution ".

* Benjamin Pierce ( April 13, 1841-January 16, 1853 )-Two months before Pierce's inauguration as president, a tragedy occurred as the family traveled by train from Andover, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire, where they had planned to attend the funeral of a family friend.

If Colliers had been chosen, this tragedy might not have occurred.

The tragedy occurred during Lent.

Ferrer, who'd marched in protest against the shooting when it occurred and had gotten arrested, expressed his belief to the New York City Police Department Sergeant's Benevolent Association that the incident was a " tragedy ," but " not a crime.

Then, after only a few weeks, a tragedy occurred that would indelibly affect the base.

Skunk Anansie was on stage when the tragedy occurred at Pukkelpop in Belgium on 18 August 2011.

Nobody expected the tragedy, which occurred on the morning of 24 November: during a short break between the deliberations in the town of Marcinkowo Górne, a group of Pomeranians attacked both Leszek I the White and Henry I the Bearded ; Leszek I was killed and Henry I severely wounded, but could survive.

A tragedy occurred on the reversible HOV lanes in 1995 when a negligent highway worker failed to close the outbound gates, leading to a head-on collision that killed six.

The Italian Hall Disaster ( sometimes referred to as the 1913 Massacre ) is a tragedy that occurred on December 24, 1913 in Calumet, Michigan.

In the 1670s and 1680s, a gradual shift occurred from heroic to pathetic tragedy, where the subject was love and domestic concerns, even though the main characters might be public figures.

The tragedy was politically controversial in Australia, as it occurred during an election campaign at a time when asylum seekers and border protection were major issues.

Joseph Skipsey faced an early tragedy when his father, Cuthbert, was shot dead on 8 July 1832 .. On the Sunday evening, an ” affray ” occurred between a group of miners and special constables.

An acute methylmercury poisoning tragedy occurred in Minamata, Japan following release of methylmercury into Minamata Bay and its tributaries ( see Minamata disease ).

Waller even hired Andrea Beaumont, AKA: The Phantasm, one of Bruce Wayne's many past lovers, and ordered her to kill Warren and Mary as they were coming out of a movie theater with their sons, hoping to recreate the same pyschological trauma that resulted in Bruce becoming Batman within Terry or his brother, but at the last minute Beaumont abandoned the job, refusing to subject an innocent child to the same tragedy that consumed Bruce's life ( but in the end, Warren's death at the hands of a criminal still occurred, thus cementing his destiny as the next Batman ).

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

The President was even more generous with the First Lady than he had been before the tragedy.

The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna.

Thus, in the immemorial way -- in the way of the right hand that knows and the left that does not -- was the stage set for tragedy at Bari.

Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.

But the stuff of tragedy was not truly present and the play became only comedy acted rather slowly.

' His Nemesis, a prose tragedy in four acts about Beatrice Cenci, partly inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci, was printed while he was dying.

The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.

The life of Amalasunta was made the subject of a tragedy, the first play written by the young Goldoni and presented at Milan in ( 1733 ).

As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began writing a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was only 26 years old ; He would win his first victory at the City Dionysia in 484 BC.

What was new was a refusal to credit the higher status of certain types, where the taxonomy implied a preference for tragedy and the sublime to comedy and the Rococo.

This childhood tragedy likely helped shape Capp ’ s cynical worldview, which, funny as it was, was certainly darker and more sardonic than that of the average newspaper cartoonist.

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

Perhaps the tragedy of his life was that he was never awarded the high official position which he desired, from which he wished to demonstrate the general well-being that would ensue if humane persons ruled and administered the state.

There was a tragedy at the club late in the 1992 – 93 season.

Their tragedy was too much for Alison and, after kidnapping then returning Sarah-Lou Platt's newborn baby Bethany, she committed suicide by stepping in front of a lorry, leaving Kevin devastated.

Just as Arcas was about to kill his own mother with his javelin, Jupiter averted the tragedy by placing mother and son amongst the stars as Ursa Major and Minor, respectively.

This crossing was named by Aeschylus in his tragedy The Persians as the cause of divine intervention against Xerxes.

Tzara's last attempt at a Dadaist drama was his " ironic tragedy " Handkerchief of Clouds in 1924.