Sentence examples for dire experiences from inspiring English sources

With a snow-white mane and a beak like a fishhook, he hurls mighty imprecations in a voice that sounds credible commanding his foul minions to rrrrrrip the trees out of the earth -- a voice that led his co-star, Ian McKellen, to comment that Mr. Lee's avoidance of the theater (after some dire experiences in his youth) meant the world had lost a great Shakespearean actor.

Called "Was It Rape, Then?", the story borrows lines from Shakespeare's plays to recreate the multitude of dire experiences that can arise from rape culture.

There's one obvious lesson which Westminster, despite centuries of dire experience, still fails to learn.

Avoiding a narcissistically narrow focus -- the most common pitfall of the genre -- Clendinnen has used her dire experience to allow herself great formal daring and even epistemological wildness.

Nicholas D. Kristof ("Save the Fat Cats," column, Oct. 2) is quite right that based on the dire experience of Japan, the result of inaction will be a sharp long-term decline in employment and incomes.

My most dire experience along the line of serious organic criticism -- and here I challenge fellow writers to compete with me an the Indoor Derogation Olympics -- came when I picked up one of my books and, seeking to impress the charming young person with whom I was browsing in the bookshop, proposed to buy it for her.

Making sure those users get a decent not dire experience with their first budget Droid is the mission Google leaves in Motorola's hands.

A meal in prison is a dire experience.

These are the laws that protect children who have been through horrific experiences and who are in dire need.

If you can successfully persuade people that the situation is dire and experiences will probably be poor, picture their delight when the experience is mediocre.

Some of the inspiration for "Museum Hours" came from dire personal experience: an illness in the family and the suicide of a friend, the singer Vic Chesnutt.