Sentence examples for dire sense from inspiring English sources

The sales pitches, whether they were delivered in speeches by candidates or through a written solicitation, contained a breathless and dire sense of urgency.

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.

And at the age of 19, without a lot of career prospects, Chivitchian found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time in a much more dire sense.

Considering the dire sense of hopelessless and uncertainty on Wall Street, among consumers, and in global markets, President Obama imploring the American people to believe in happy endings was not so farfetched a request, after all.

As he wound up putting it, "I felt if I met another king I should bite him!" Roosevelt also saw enough to sense dire trouble brewing.

Yet Arbus could produce the same sense of dire enchantment in photographs of the most ordinary people: Fifth Avenue matrons, Coney Island bathers, even children.

All this delegate counting, projecting, slicing and dicing gives me uncomfortable flashbacks to Tim Russert and his dire attempt to make sense of things using a white board during the 2000 election.

And because the human body is an amazing machine, a sense of dire emergency will even stop the burning of fat for fuel -- conserving it for later, in case we've run so far away from whatever threat is facing us that we've run clear out of range of food.

Several city officials, however, said cuts to parades made sense, given the dire financial times.

Fresh off of a horrendous 2008 and with a flood of dire news to reinforce a sense of economic gloom, investors need some encouragement.

Chances are quite good we have no true sense of the dire nature of the situation.