Whatever the cause, the results were one of the great tragedies in human history.
Then he looked straight ahead with a light of great tragedy in his eyes.
Should war come, it will be a far greater tragedy for you and your country.
"I think it would be a far greater tragedy if two lives were lost over this."
Four years earlier had come the great tragedy of her life.
There's no evidence that the president or anyone in his administration knows what the next act of this great tragedy will be.
Standing at the site of a great tragedy had that effect.
To those of us who knew him, his death is a great tragedy.
It was the last of what are considered the four great tragedies.
Suppose it was I who, many years ago, had been through a very great personal tragedy.