tragic

Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

2008, Search for tragic Madeleine McCann over (in The Daily Telegraph of Australia, 14 February 2008) http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/search-for-maddie-over/story-e6freuy9-1111115550129

That dress is tragic.