1.   John A. Monahan told his tragic tale.

2.   And who can forget the tragic tale of the ground ball that dribbled between the legs of Bill Buckner?

3.   Director Kapur has filmed the tragic tale with great artistic care.

4.   Everybody knows how the tragic tale ends.

5.   Fitting, because if this Santa could talk, what a tragic tale of Christmas he could tell.

6.   He tells a tragic tale of a settler band, forced by bad weather into a cave and, eventually, preyed upon by their ghoulish guide.

7.   History, with all its horrors, accidents and astonishments, has been interpreted as an epic tale of great men and as a tragic tale of alienated labor.

8.   It is the tragic tale of a woman who loves two men and cannot choose between them.

9.   It would be the tragic tale of a man with a remarkable talent.

10.   Name the people of Spotsylvania, Va. among those with a tragic cautionary tale.