Sentence examples for felt dire from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The situation has felt especially dire in the wake of a now infamous lawsuit, in 2013, over Robin Thicke's colossal hit "Blurred Lines," which a jury found too derivative of Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up" — despite nary an overlapping chord progression.

The health care system in Bosnia and Herzegovina felt the dire consequences of the turbulent transition and war, from which it has still not recovered.

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.