Sentence examples for morally dire from inspiring English sources
His main interest had noticeably shifted, from arms control to global warming, but the setup was familiar: mankind was in a morally dire situation of its own making, which could be solved through a combination of analytic mastery, spiritual guidance, and the use of technology in healthy ways instead of unhealthy ones.
He's not helped by Richard Hudson's awkward design - two slanted wooden platforms converging to impenetrable purpose - or by some fussy directorial points: masked and gowned figures glower round the stage, and leap on to it when anything morally dire occurs; smoke belches; drums beat like the pulse of a heart at climactic moments.
Dire distress provoked swift action, and that is morally excellent.
It is morally indefensible that aid workers, drafted in to help with this dire situation, would abuse a position of power.
In his dire introduction, he warns that the "nation is disintegrating, ethnically, culturally, morally, politically".
But the frightful Sunday came in the wake of mounting medical evidence about the potentially dire neurological consequences of football on its participants, and called forth some troubling questions: Is it morally defensible to watch a sport whose level of violence is demonstrably destructive?
The more dire predictions of its opponents did not, thankfully, prove correct, and the relatively quick fall of Saddam Hussein seemed to mean, both logically and morally, the defeat of the antiwar movement.
