If serious efforts to get it right can lead to tragic errors, why care about a culture of persuasion at all?

She'd realized that tragic error a moment too late, and burst into tears.

To settle for less is to make the same tragic error twice.

BP, having committed a colossal and tragic error, seems to be doing its part.

That is, until I made a tragic error in judgment.

Many died as a result of that tragic error.

Nixon had been alarmed, too, long before the tragic error of 1972.

A single tragic error seemed to have collapsed the possibilities for success on two different fronts.

The police and security services are properly accountable to society as a whole, even when a very tragic error has been committed.

Reliance on condoms alone, in the face of the data, would be a tragic error.