Therein lies the tragedy of it.
But for most people, the tragedies lie in the photographs that were discarded or the china that was auctioned.
The tragedy lies in human nature itself, which involves us all.
But the real tragedy of Senghenydd does not lie in just the 1913 disaster.
The tragedy in life does not lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy of American politics lies in the lack of imagination of what does, or should, represent political action.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
He rode on in si- lence, wishing that the tragedy of his other self did not lie between them.
His account of the American past was finally tragic, and tragedy lies outside the comfortable boundaries of American thought.
However, behind this theatre lies a tragedy, as we said; several thousand people who are still in prison.