Political comebacks have been borne out of more dire circumstances.
Sammy is shown in the film's opening moments reciting a poetic story about a doomed boy and girl on a beach that loves them but is unable to warn them of their dire fate: "No more carefree play, only lonely snowfall to mark the beginning of an endless winter".
If it were, they'd be protesting a lot more right now, beginning with the dire fate of the Yazidis and Christians in Iraq, the unspeakable tragedy in Syria, and the right of Ukraine to be free of foreign interference.
But more needs to be done today to avoid the dire fate the IPCC projects.
Sarah's Key, more recently, concentrated on the Jewish "raffles" in occupied France, but made the dire fate of a Jewish family caught up in the Drancy round-ups the basis for the moral regeneration of a non-Jewish bourgeois Frenchwoman a half-century later.
With each passing day, however, the fates of millions of hungry people around Zambia grow more dire.
Others offered more dire assessments.
Others had more dire stories.
The feeling is more dire.
