Sentence examples for dire stuff from inspiring English sources

Although, I'm sure you agree, fruit juice is dire stuff, containing as much sugar – glass for glass – as soft drink.

It's dire stuff even for a boys' yarn, which this is meant to be, albeit couched in the style of DC's 'Mature Readers' line.

Ridiculed by TV comics as Dire Stuff even in their multimillion-shifting heyday, repeated critical attempts to rehabilitate the understated beauty of songs such as Romeo and Juliet haven't dented their unassailable lack of cool.

"There's been a lot of dire stuff floating around about January.

Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club gave the episode a "D–"; he called it "dire stuff" and wrote that "there's something rancid about forced quirk; it's rotten and smug".

I've witnessed as much dire stuff in this area as I have elsewhere in the city, but there's no doubt that, at the beginning of the millennium, Tottenham seemed gloomy.

The situation had to be extremely dire for stuff I didn't enjoy to get top priority.

Miranda has dire material.

I mean, you and I are walking happily down a little alley in a small town, but really around us all kinds of stuff is in dire trouble — you know, banks in dozens of countries, people in Iceland are hoarding food.

Any intimation that the Trump administration is blocking or somehow suppressing a dire climate-change study is explosive stuff, in large part because it would align with actual transparency problems.

Yet, it's unable to foresee or handle the small stuff that can have dire consequences.