Sentence examples for dire lyrics from inspiring English sources

Each group plays its own hybrid of industrial rock, music that uses a booming dance beat to carry cynical or dire lyrics amid dense, clashing rhythms and noises.

Its dire lyrics arrived in songs that could be sparse or blasting, guttural or tuneful, hurtling at hardcore speed or slowly pounding.

"A half-dozen lively song and dance sequences explore composer Stu Barker's passion for tango and bossa nova - admittedly with dire lyrics to match," wrote John Thaxter in The Stage.

She seemed incapable of singing even the direst lyrics without a gawky grin.

Never mind that the tune is dire and the lyrics are uninspired, everything about the presentation screams, "I've still got it!".

"You get a shiver in the dark/It's raining in the park but meantime" — the opening lyric of Dire Strait's "Sultans of Swing" — belted out over loudspeakers at 9 a.m. on Wednesday in an attempt to eject the group from the industrial site where they had parked.

They listen to Lady Gaga, Adele and Rick James (though they rewrite the lyrics to include dire warnings of hellfire, with bizarre results: "She's a burning freak, burning freak! She's extra crispy now").

It poses a very interesting dilemma, described by lyrics to a Dire Straits song, "Two men say they're Jesus one of them must be wrong". The widows, Sarah Sarah Frenchh), Florence (Chera Holland, Lornaa (Marissa Hampton), Letha (Megan Combes) and Cat (Nicole J. Adelman) stage an Occupy protest in an abandoned coalmine in Randolph County, West Virginia, the site of the disaster.

Its lyrics and visuals powerfully describe the dire conditions facing refugees attempting to immigrate to, and make lives in, America today.

This sounds dire, but the title was also inspired by a set of lyrics that Carl Hancock Rux derived from the Book of Revelation, and which accompanies a section of the piece.

The lyrics play with convention as well, coming across as simultaneously playful, lusty, dire and mocking.