Sentence examples for dire reading from inspiring English sources

Yes, the polls make dire reading.

A supposedly confidential new assessment of Greece's prospects, drawn up earlier this month by the "troika" of the ECB, the IMF and the European Commission, makes dire reading.

The report will be dire reading for Portas, whom the prime minister drafted in to help save Britain's dying high streets.

It's not just that this morning's Guardian/ICM poll verdict on the prime minister, his government and his party will have made such dire reading in Downing Street.

The easy credit that resulted fuelled both the boom in house prices and the consumer spending that helped Britain's economy grow until the crisis in American sub-prime mortgages ripped the lid off reckless lending elsewhere too.A review of the wholesale mortgage market for the Treasury by Sir James Crosby, a former boss of HBOS (one of Britain's biggest mortgage lenders), makes dire reading.

The report is nothing new, but still dire, writes Graham Readfern The latest blockbuster United Nations report on the impacts of climate change makes dire reading, just as the first one did almost a quarter of a century ago... Now more than 25 years after scientists started compiling that first report, the latest report is similarly alarming - just with added impacts and greater certainty.

As he hands over a present, he gravely lets it be known that: 'If you don't like it, I will go and kill myself.' There are plenty of incidental pleasures - not least the dire poetry reading in which a poetess whispers her way through verses called 'Cobweb' - but the really startling feature of the evening is its emotional charge.

I'm being a bit mean … they're sweet enough, these stories, but they are dire to read aloud.