The effect on standards was often dire; something both stubborn and slipshod, enshrined in the act, persisted for decades in the British film industry, and it reflected a prevailing prejudice that the cinema, being a cheap and fleeting diversion, was not a serious business, still less a respectable profession.
But "Boeing-Boeing" develops soon enough into a farce, and audiences needn't worry that something dire will happen — unless they consider helpless laughter something dire.
Usually articles about something dire by Sebastian Junger.
If you had not been my guest I would have done something dire to you".
It can also back up phone numbers in case something dire happens to your phone.
But something dire happened between the Women's Liberation Movement and now.
By the end of the hour, Robert Weisz, a distinguished-looking Clinton supporter on the floor, saw something dire approaching.
One room of his modest one-story home has been transformed into a storage facility, in case something dire happens in the world outside.
The folk contingent went on to be Mumford & Sons, the pop soul wing went on to be Adele; some assumed, in Treays's five-year absence from releasing music, that something dire had happened to him, or his muse.
Ivan P. Rybkin, a former Parliament speaker and national security adviser under Boris N. Yeltsin, has not been seen or heard from since Thursday evening, raising fears among his family and campaign aides that something dire has happened to him.
Although modern Western cultures have tended to regard hallucinations as a sign of "madness or something dire happening to the brain," Dr. Sacks observes, other cultures regard them, like dreams, "as a special, privileged state of consciousness — one that is actively sought through spiritual practices, meditation, drugs or solitude".
