Sentence examples for do dire from inspiring English sources

They get married just as he becomes a bestseller, hailed as a "young Jonathan Franzen", while her career refuses to take off; she has to do dire summer-season theatre in Ohio, while Jamie stays behind in New York, with all the parties and beautiful young women throwing themselves at him.

Basically because you don't make dire predictions like that unless you really know something; and what do I know about the state of mind of the average Indonesian?

The numbers do look dire.

The weathercaster spiritualists with their end of the world, do or dire predictions and their hovered over, proprietary crystal snow balls, had it wrong for most places.

I only do this in dire dire circumstances (like when I got norovirus and threw up every 15 minutes for NINE HOURS).

If you had not been my guest I would have done something dire to you".

At 52 he looks and sounds, give or take a bit of hair, exactly as he did when Dire Straits were racking up hit after enervated hit.

It is not a simple subject to understand and communicate given all these complexities while in the same time the potential and incentives to mislead and misinterpret are great, and the consequences of doing so dire.

He also knows how to get it done under dire circumstances, scoring a must-win at Dover last year to advance in the Chase.

What to do with these dire ruminations?

Nor do threats of dire, if cosmetic, consequences.