That lacklustre event was succeeded by the dire The Mirror Crack'd (1980), third in a series of glossy Agatha Christie adaptations, produced by John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin.
[Small Talk cracks a dire gag about Richard's keys. It falls on deaf ears] What was the last CD you bought?
But trust the Lebanese, under the direst of circumstances, to crack jokes and serve up mordant comments on social media about the unprecedented tempest that swept over the whole Middle East.
Mr. Chappelle's lack of restraint coupled with cable's anything-goes ethos has created an environment in which characters like Tyrone Biggums, a scheming crack addict in dire need of lip balm, and Clayton Bigsby, a blind white supremacist utterly unaware that he is black, can come to life.
Legalization proponents, meanwhile, ignore the dire social consequences of narcotics like crack cocaine and methamphetamine (they have a stronger argument in relation to marijuana).
Some offer outright dire predictions.
While cracking into someone's professional profile on LinkedIn might not have dire consequences, hackers will use that password to crack into, say, someone's e-mail, bank, or brokerage account where more valuable financial and personal data is stored.
The song opens with finger-picked guitar arpeggios that sound more like Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler than like the hard crack of a traditional flat-picking guitar player.
America is in dire need of some breakthrough innovation that can crack open significant new horizons.
The government says he stoked ethnic discord with false reports; human-rights groups say the state is cracking down harder in an already dire environment.
The reporters look at a related crime involving a young boy that slipped through the cracks of the police investigation – with dire results.
