Sentence examples for dire word from inspiring English sources

Is susty "a dire word" that's "never going to happen", as Imogen Birt claims, or will it be "the buzzword of 2014" as Daniel G Nemet predicts?

Our flawed parents have had less than perfect childhoods, too; if we were to take Miller at her dire word, we would have to go back and reconstruct the entire human enterprise, which is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Should you wish to remark that Return of the Killer Jellyfish is on at the Newquay multiplex, you would declare 'Ma angy a gware Dewhillians an Margoulis Leithiaz en Manifold Tewynplustri.' And you don't have to utter the dire word Newquay.

In her review of "The Truth Will Set You Free," by Alice Miller (Jan . 27, Daphne Merkin comments that "if we were to take Miller at her dire word, we would have to go back and reconstruct the entire human enterprise".

It got him in all right, which is a little surprising in view of the fact that, after his name were the dire words "Young and Republican".

Those dire words then gave way to a pregame tribute in which West Ham, playing at home, honored the 20th anniversary of the death of one of the club's most beloved players: Bobby Moore, who starred for West Ham and was the captain of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup.

The three most dire words I can think of to associate with MASS MoCA are South Street Seaport... Tells about three installations by Nauman.... Mentions the disappointing thousand-foot-long "The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece," by Rauschenberg... Anything on the scale of MASS MoCA is apt to be entertaining, even taste and intelligence.

The letter said his 13-year-old son, Jovan, had come to the attention of the precinct's Youth Services Section, and suggested that Mr. Torres look diligently after the boy "to prevent neglect, delinquency or conduct that may prove harmful". Dire words.

"Henceforth you will be known as Darth Vader!" These dire words, addressed to a tormented Anakin Skywalker as he crosses the threshold to the much-mentioned Dark Side, mark the definitive moment of his Luciferian journey, which will end with him in a black, neo-Wehrmacht helmet-mask, with incipient emphysema and a walk that makes him look as if he has had concrete hip replacements.

While the task force did suggest ways to fix the problems, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham left the industry with these dire words: "Improvements are urgently needed.

A "tea party leader" had some dire words for Michele Bachmann.