Sentence examples for dire purpose from inspiring English sources

Even the extras had an air of dire purpose; there was none of the usual half-hearted milling around.

Graham Clive Owenn), retired from villainy, is a more reluctant score-settler than avid Jack Carter, and his easygoing wardrobe does not suggest unwavering dedication to a dire purpose.

(Costumer Ann Roth had the spot-on idea of what Wilkes would consider dressy). The next she's wielding a mallet for dire purposes.

The social and intellectual consequences of this will be dire: the value and purpose of education is at stake, as is the right of millions of ordinary people to access it.

The faecal sludge, after being dried in the beds, since it has no purpose in Dire Dawa, was observed to be excavated from the drying beds and disposed in the landfill site.

President Barack Obama: An Ebola outbreak is a situation that brings a dire sense of necessity and purpose, but it's nowhere near as complicated as -- say -- reforming Medicare.

By one important measure -- "unrestricted assets," money that can be used for any purpose -- MOCA is in dire straits.

Therefore, as much as they have unity of purpose, they are in dire need of a structurally-sound political unity.

It's a civil case.Voir dire,questioning of jury for selection purposes,after lunch.Question:no matter what can you be fair to both sides?

As John Lennon once crooned (dire song: but the words serve a purpose), "it isn't hard to do".

The variation may be due to the utilization of phosphorus containing chemicals for different purposes and tanning activities in Dire tannery.