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  • s  very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction

  • Nonsurprising, but tragical indeed, is the lot of a perpetual scapegoat.
  • Or "history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral"? Steve http:trueconservative.
  • Stay, all the way to the magical-tragical ending.
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  • Terry Gilliam in Liverpool Daily Post
    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is "a tragical, magical idea, which sees a group of extraordinary people travelling around London in a horse-drawn theatre, but nobody's paying attention to them," says former Monty Python star Gilliam.
  • Henry David Thoreau in Los Angeles Times
    Thoreau, who watched such an operation, wrote, "Joe [his Penobscot guide] now proceeded to skin the moose with a pocket knife, while I looked on, and a tragical business it was; to see that still warm and palpitating body pierced with a knife, to...
  • Mirek Topolanek in Czech Happenings
    He errs in political terms, and it [his error] is almost tragical in terms of economics. Nonetheless, I'll negotiate with him and I'll make an offer to him that he'll be unable to decline,Topolanek told the magazine.

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