To match this dire living situation, the people themselves seemed numb, lethargic, and displayed little to no joy.
After opening the book with glimpses of how dire these lives will become, he moves backward in time to observe his family from the vantage point of a bedazzled, seemingly innocent child.
"They are still in dire straits, living from pay check to pay check," Radack told the audience at the New America after recently held screening of Silenced.
And even if the official numbers turn out to be right, the prospects for both GDP growth and consumer spending look dire as living standards stagnate because of rising inflation.Not just recession, M&S recessionMaybe the British economy will muddle its way through over the next year or two without going into recession; but it would be surprising if it did.
Members of rock groups Squeeze and Dire Straits lived on the Crossfield Estate in Deptford in the late 1970s, along with Mark Perry, founder of the punk fanzine Sniffin Glue and punk rock band Alternative TV.
They have in common the sense of a sudden dire meaningfulness, of lives transformed against a backdrop of truly global forces, of people snatched from the ordinary and forced to define themselves in ways they could not have imagined before the war began.
Out in the country, this is the reality: loud voices wanting hard and fast Brexit but also plenty of people unsure about what exactly it will mean, and often convinced that leaving the EU will have dire consequences for lives that are already insecure and uncertain.
The prospect and likelihood of a Nazi victory were so dire for the lives and communal values of those facing defeat that the price of severe immorality was worth paying.
Small-town American obituaries can be dire – nobody could live a life as perfect as those described in some papers.
The neighbourhood was close to Brownsville, a large border city, but people from the city kept their distance.It was a dire way to live, but not uncommon along the border.
