Sentence examples for bit dire from inspiring English sources

But the stories are all a bit dire and repetitive.

These are families that are a little bit dire right now, for a lot of different reasons".

UPDATE (2 22 PM EST): 20th Century Fox TV released a statement about the negotiations, sounding a bit dire.

When a calypso version of The Jackson 5's I want you back is the least awful bit of a soundtrack, you know you're in dire straits.

It's also possible that Mr. Shapiro and his fellow pessimists are being a bit too dire about the private sector.

What we're getting from the deficit scolds, however, are at best grudging admissions that things may look a bit less dire — if not expressions of regret that the public seems insufficiently alarmed.

There isn't: although public finances are a bit less dire than Mr Osborne feared when he fashioned his first budget last June, Britain's deficit this financial year will be equivalent to around 10% of GDP.

We stare at them and know that though times may have changed in Mulberry Bend, the camera does not have far to look to find suffering that is every bit as dire.

The reality is a bit less dire.

It's possible that the scenario we painted is a bit more dire than reality, but if so, it isn't by much.

Pushing into the background our own concerns over those pentagram-shaped birthmarks on our hips, we started checking out all the ways that filmmakers have managed to bequeath their characters the gifts that keep on giving (and that rank as a bit more dire than thinning hairlines or thickening bellies).