Sentence examples for direful from inspiring English sources

The Chilam Balam books are full of predictions of a markedly direful character.

Ralph Alswang's settings are effective in their stylized way, as are the costumes designed by Dorothy Jeakins; and the sound effects produced by Marc Blitzstein, though sometimes a little overpercussive, are useful in suggesting the direful atmosphere that I'm sure the Master had in mind.

"I always say there is something direful in the sound".

It's a direful thing to have in your hands, a desiccated version of Lady Gaga's skirt-steak dress.

Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, called them prophetic, direful and accursed.

Then, as if catching sight of the future, he expanded to direful warning: "And what's going to happen if this lot takes over?" By Phil Klay By Andy Borowitz By Troy Patterson By John Cassidy By Amy Davidson Sorkin By Phil Klay By Andy Borowitz By Troy Patterson By John Cassidy.

Then, as if catching sight of the future, he expanded to direful warning: "And what's going to happen if this lot takes over?" By Jelani Cobb By Seth Lind By David Remnick By Joan Acocella By Jia Tolentino By Jelani Cobb By Seth Lind By David Remnick By Joan Acocella.

Pliny the Elder not only considered lightning direful, but noticed it often accompanied volcanic eruptions.