Sentence examples for Quite dire from inspiring English sources

This book is a wide-angle and quite dire meditation on our nuclear present; Mr. Rosenbaum is convincingly fearful about where humanity stands.

Here in Germany I can flit between main hubs, but I pay a significant premium to use that service and then find that, if I want to get out to a smaller town, the service is sometimes quite dire.

The council is committed to investing extra money in its services to protect children following a series of abuse cases, but Bore described the consequences of the cuts as "quite dire".

We'd point out that with so many races in flux, (granted the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have outpaced their Republican counterparts in fund-raising), the final fall rush for cash can be quite dire for some races that hadn't been viewed competitively by the leaders.

That sounds quite dire, but it isn't.

"It's quite dire at the moment," she added.

In a bid to rejuvenate her by-no-means-flagging-but-ultimately-quite-dire career, Green Light harks back to her original standout hit Crazy In Love.

For private institutions, the news was not quite as dire.

"I see quite a dire future," he said.

In reality the situation isn't quite that dire.

Statistics provided by the National Endowment for the Arts suggest that the situation is not quite so dire.