Sentence examples for dire material from inspiring English sources

Miranda has dire material.

In the latest version, Bodhi is played by Edgar Ramirez – a fine Venezuelan actor, hampered here by dire material – as a trustafarian serving sixth-form spiritualism with a side salad of Occupy Wall Street, to justify blowing up gold mines and raining down stolen US cash on stereotypically impoverished South Americans.

Or if a soldier was shot in the arm and blood loss was a dire concern, the material could tighten and constrict blood flow around the wound to form a tourniquet.

More dire than her own material comfort, she said, were the prospects for her two sons.

Having burned through just about every plot point from his initial pitch to AMC, the "Mad Men" creator had a dire need for new material.

The songstress hurls herself at this material with such dire enthusiasm that she takes full possession of it.

$25 Somewhere in his published diaries the playwright Alan Bennett observes that when misfortune befalls a writer the effect of it is in a small but significant measure ameliorated by the fact that the experience, no matter how dire, can be turned into material, into something to write about.

The financial risks of any business are usually the focus of management, but too often the risks to their human and material assets are overlooked with dire consequences.

This material makes clear just how dire the circumstances were, and why there was so much clamor for action beyond Herbert Hoover's hesitant and constrained approach.

Hardly sexy reporting material yet the consequences have been dire.

States in dire economic need, they suggest, export sensitive nuclear materials and technology and ignore the security risk in a desperate search for hard currency.