"The message, in the broadest terms, is that if society is permitted to be constructed in a particularly unjust way, there will be dire consequences," he remarks in his programme notes.
Indeed, he was: all of his interests were indulged despite a background of dire poverty, and he remarked of his celebrity in botanical circles that "fame is not bread".
The campaign finance experts, journalists and academics serving as Kangas's co-panelists were less blunt in their remarks, but no one dissented from his dire assessment of the current state of the American political system.
"Tra il dire e il fare c'è in mezzo il mare," she remarked.
What's important to mention now is that I also recognize that the same dire ratio surely applies to the long tendentious paragraph in which these remarks presently appear.
If it were not for the dire consequences for the animals who will suffer in the laboratory, the chief minister's remark would be hilarious.
The tournament would later experience dire financial trouble, and at one stage in the late 1960's, the American player Cliff Richey remarked midmatch that the place looked "like an abandoned stadium".
Where the weather might be a factor in your mood but never in your life, where such dire matters as the changing habits and availability of prawns or salmon were merely interesting, or not remarked upon at all.
Ferguson's remarks, in particular, reveal an insidious worldview, one I fear is shared by millions, in which people have a dire need to see themselves as good, orderly and virtuous, and others as selfish, profligate and untamed by desire.
