Sentence examples for dire calamity from inspiring English sources

The people of France, too, began to forbode some dire calamity.

One by one, each of the women rises to take a brief stroll, leaving the other two to huddle together in conspiratorial tones suggesting that the object of their discussion is suffering from some dire calamity.

The English novelist Henry Fielding was reflecting centuries of tradition when, in the preface to Joseph Andrews (1742), he spoke of the inappropriateness of ridicule applied to black villainy or dire calamity.

The president they serve has steadfastly resisted intervening in the most dire human-rights calamity he has faced since taking office: the civil war in Syria.

But they will be working for a president who has consistently resisted intervening in the most dire human-rights calamity of the day, the civil war in Syria.

Mr. Obama and members of his administration painted a dire picture of financial calamity if Congress does not increase the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, when Treasury Department officials say the nation will default on its obligations.

The calamity howlers, with their dire warnings of economic Armageddon, were wrong.

Along with dire predictions, David Orr also insists that calamity need not happen!

Many of them — especially the small number charged with approaching damaged reactors and exposing themselves to unusually high doses of radiation — are viewed as heroes, preventing the world's second-worst nuclear calamity from becoming even more dire.

By the conclusion of "The Broken Heart," several of the principal characters have met dire ends, in at least one case literally from the titular calamity.

The group's membership was eclectic and impressive, its analysis of the "dire" situation on the ground bluntly accurate, its projection of a gallop toward calamity convincing.