tragic

“This is tragic because nobody needs good policing more than poorer neighborhoods with higher crime rates,” Obama said.

There is always more of rainbow than of storm in his skies; their darkest shadow is but a tragic twilight.

Jarvis did not find the story a tragic one, but he listened with an interest that was all his own.

But is it not known by those who look closely upon the world that there is nothing so tragic as the formal?

There is something so tragic in such a death—a man who had everything to live for!

"And she has not forgotten," said Philter, with a tragic air.