Sentence examples for dire nature from inspiring English sources

The dire nature of complaints betrayed the fun that statistics have always been able to provide.

Inter-meeting actions only underscore the dire nature of the situation.

Given the dire nature of the situation in Syria, he is almost certainly assured of being granted residency.

But the censored section of the Unesco report on Tasmania is clear about the "dire" nature of the threat.

"We are well past the time of niceties, of avoiding the dire nature of what is unfolding, and politely trying not to scare the public".

The operation has spawned books, prompted study at U.S. warfare schools and been depicted in a video game, in large part because of its dire nature.

One report put it at a stage 2a, which has a relatively high five-year survival rate; another put it at a stage 3b, which is much more dire in nature.

Since war is the ultimate failure of diplomacy, the final, last ditch effort to save country, life, or resources or a direct response to an invasion, attack or affront of the direst of nature, since waging ongoing wars has actually destroyed nations, including many in the very area now in turmoil, the need for war should be painfully obvious to all or most.

Extremes of human nature, dire and exalted, are the subjects of Bradford Cox's songs for his band Deerhunter; and extremes of sound, consonant and bristling, are his vehicle.

On this occasion, however, the editor – "guest editor", in fact – was Campbell himself, a fact reflected in the dire, self-congratulatory nature of the rest of the magazine.

Between Milton Resnick's entirely grey painting Octave of 1961, and Ad Reinhardt's entirely black painting Abstract Painting No 23 of 1963, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published, the book that launched a new environmental movement, revealing the dire threat to nature caused by human civilisation.