Sentence examples for feel dire from inspiring English sources

Circumstances were beginning to feel dire.

Not everything recorded at Compass Point had the same sound or feel; Dire Straits' "Communiqué" is not represented here, for instance.

Too often, discussions about hunger and climate change feel dire and hopeless, he said.

Years later, when we were both earning good wages, our dual income placed us in the highest of tax brackets, and with no kids or housing deduction to mitigate the "unfairness," the situation felt dire.

He steadied, fanning the last two batters of the inning, but the damage felt dire, because of the swiftness of response and because deGrom wasn't himself, running up pitch counts and going wild with his upper fastballs.

When the film began, with Willem Dafoe providing a voice-over about the warring tribes on Mars as the camera spiralled toward the Red Planet, Stanton said, "This music is from 'Syriana.' It felt dire and Middle Eastern and forlorn, like a culture clinging to its nobility".

I had to get up in the morning although my spirit felt dull and my heart and mind felt dire.

For starters, I want to spend more time near the end of the Amu Darya in Uzbekistan where you can really feel the dire environmental situation.

Regardless of the decision to abandon the treaty-making process, young people, who feel the dire urgency of climate change more than any other generation, will travel from all over the world and descend upon the Copenhagen convention as one.

With "Mapping," the tranquillity feels subtly dire.

For employees of Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of reproductive-health services in America, the situation feels particularly dire.