What they've just experienced is a dire example of what is euphemistically called "a senior moment".
There are precedents for this – my comment in the introductory paragraph that SF-nal experimentation usually does not have consequences is defied by the whole phenomenon of L Ron Hubbard, in which a particularly dire example of genre fiction has jacked into the wish-fulfilment fantasies of Generation X and spawned the Scientology movement.
Eventually, episodes of spongy-brain disease on mink farms and the dire example of the British disaster with mad cow disease prompted the FDA to ban meat and bone meal from rations of grazing livestock in the U.S. in 1997.
The multi-billion-dollar manned space station (allegedly international, but in practice an American enterprise) is an operation looking for a mission.The truth will outCompared with these dire examples of waste and destruction, Dr Hwang's mistake looks relatively modest.
She cites a dire example, the Irish potato famine of the late 1840's.
In 1787, just before the Constitution was drafted, New Yorkers, following the example of a British reformer who had issued a dire report on the state of prisons in England and Wales, formed the Society for the Relief of Distressed Debtors.
Dire economic performance in the bel paese (beautiful country) has seen hundreds of thousands of Italians move to the UK, which was until recently held up as an example of how a nation should be run.
Such economic consequences to nations that help or hinder us in the U.N. this week do not compare to the human-rights benefits to millions of Iraqis liberated from oppression and to Arabs from Cairo to Gaza in dire need of an example of freedom.
A dire forecast of a possible 10,000 cases a week, for example, was never realised.
For example, he draws the group's attention to the dire consequences of "a no-warning Israeli attack" on Iran.
