Sentence examples for dire scene from inspiring English sources

The dire scene at Mr. Monfort's clinic speaks to a larger concern: as hospitals and medical staff are overrun by people with acute conditions, patients who were previously getting treatment for cancer, H.I.V. and other chronic or infectious diseases have been pushed aside and no longer have access to care.

It's been described as a "dire scene," he said.

But humor flows through the direst scenes.

Eat at any one of the many new paladares currently forging a contemporary Cuban culinary culture out of the previously dire dining scene.

I've been trying to stick with actions and reactions to things, reserving the monologues for particularly dire aftermath scenes.

The rest of the story sought to reconstruct his arrival in these dire circumstances, via scenes that had been chronologically mutilated for maximum profundity.

Mr. Falkouski, 59, dug out his sport-utility vehicle and navigated unplowed roads, listening on his scanner to the dire details of the scene he was headed to: The fire hydrants were frozen, and few emergency workers had made it through 10 inches of snow to respond.

(Jordana Rothman, the food and drink editor for Time Out New York, sent out a dire message via Twitter from the scene: BREAKING: KALE SOLD OUT AT FAIRWAY.

There is a dire (and confusingly updated) clubbing scene.

The appearance of China, India and Brazil on the scene, coupled with the dire problems in western economies, has transformed the political landscape.

It turns out every film ever made could have been improved by having Walk Of Life by Dire Straits playing over its final scene.