Sentence examples for dire thoughts from inspiring English sources

Maybe such dire thoughts are extreme, since some people are still buying music.

The engineering of the interlocking plot pieces is intricate because it has to support Nesbo's complicated ideas — and dire thoughts — about Norwegian nationalism, past and present.

But care-giving seems to be her fate, especially when her dire thoughts bring back images of the chicken factory: "Somewhere, deep within its bowels, there was probably a set of plastic overalls and a hygiene cap with my name still on them".

Let's move on to the Variety puzzle with a little Dire Straits: Your thoughts?

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We now know our relative performance is even direr than first thought.

Even if you're not a particularly Higher Power-oriented or prayerful person; who among us hasn't instinctively turned our thoughts upward amidst a dire crisis, perhaps when a child was involved?

Her thinking seemed dire.

A dire prospect indeed: the "exuberance" of utopian thought, Habermas wrote, "seems to have the function of opening up alternatives for action and margins of possibility".

Unfortunately, too little thought was given to what these "dire consequences" might be, and who would end up suffering them.

Noting that interruptions and distractions are the most common cause of pilot error, the authors wrote, "Dire consequences may occur when the train of thought is broken during crucial tasks".