Sentence examples for dire note from inspiring English sources

Sounding a less dire note, foreign diplomats and aid officials in Bosnia asserted that economic and judicial reforms take time.

"The consequences are going to be dire," notes George Rupp, the president of the International Rescue Committee, on which 1.75 million Sudanese depend for water, sanitation, education and health care.

In his press conference, Bernanke sounded dire notes about the state of the job market, saying "the employment situation continues to be a grave concern".

Nongovernmental organizations working in the West Bank that rely on those funds for activities like water management and medical assistance have called the situation dire, noting that without an infusion of funds they will have to begin shutting down their programs next month.

With many substantial successes, including its elegant version of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and an intelligent, underappreciated adaptation of Henry James's The Golden Bowl, the mighty franchise ends on a note of dire self-parody.

The reports project various possible sequences of events in the future; the new publication notes, between dire forecasts, that "bad outcomes are not inevitable".

"For the amount of outcry there's been over his absence from the team, he's been dire so far tonight," notes Alex Thorpe.

"Many families are in dire straits," he said, noting that per capita income on local hillsides was previously no more than $100 a year.

Volkswagen, Mr. Porsche noted, has dire problems in the United States, where it has lost all the gains it made when Mr. Piëch was chief executive and now has a market share of less than 2percentt.

SHOWCASE BY MARC HOM about violist Yuri Bashmet... Viola jokes, in the classical-music world, are the equivalent of Polish jokes, but in the hands of Yuri Bashment the instrument is a serious, even a demonic, thing...Bashment gives Shostakovich's solitary notes a dire beauty: they shine like light from dying stars.

By Alex Ross The New Yorker, August 2 , 1999P. 50 SHOWCASE BY MARC HOM about violist Yuri Bashmet... Viola jokes, in the classical-music world, are the equivalent of Polish jokes, but in the hands of Yuri Bashment the instrument is a serious, even a demonic, thing...Bashment gives Shostakovich's solitary notes a dire beauty: they shine like light from dying stars.