As Govan tells the story, he had no idea how dire Dia's financial problems were until he actually arrived on the scene.
The post apocalyptic landscape paintings are an even more dire representation of the idea of a world gone wrong".
"Wow!" It's easy to make an instant impression -- relate the importance of a cause, the revolutionary nature of an idea, the dire need met by a new innovation.
The engineering of the interlocking plot pieces is intricate because it has to support Nesbo's complicated ideas — and dire thoughts — about Norwegian nationalism, past and present.
Although I'm one of those who believe that the Met is in dire need of new ideas, I am also savoring every glimpse of those towering, opulent, meticulous sets, knowing that, in a decade, they will probably be gone.
Worrying about social mobility stands in the way of social mobility; the central idea being that dire poverty is OK, so long as there's a route out of it.
Readers might overlook the occasional bewildering joke about Ed Begley Jr.'s house if Shearer didn't also lard sentence after sentence with borscht belt elbow-jabbers: "Dick Dirigian was enough of a salesman to know that this filet mignon of an idea was in dire need of the A1 sauce of charm right about now".
To give you an idea of how dire the proceedings were, perhaps the best music of the evening was the lilting cover version of the Church hit, 'Under The Milky Way' in the Lincoln car commercial during the break.
GAO just released a report that further discredits this bad idea, confirming the dire warnings of food safety experts: USDA is relying on junk data from a pilot program, raising the strong possibility that any final rule won't survive judicial review.
As the quality of Republicans candidates has fallen off the cliff, the movement's need for emotions devoid of actual ideas has become dire.
