Annaleigh Ashford

As an actor, I always think that if someone does pick up a phone during a performance, something dire must be happening in their lives that is more important than theatre - some kind of tragedy they were attending to, or something. It's very uncomfortable if you don't know why they would pick up a phone and talk in the middle of a show.

American Actress

Howard Coble

At a time when we have much work to do to address our Nation's critical infrastructure, and, as I said, which is currently in dire need of upgrade and repair, this legislation is also a jobs bill and is obviously a jobs creator.

American Politician

Alice Walker

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

American Author

Barbara Mikulski

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

American Leader

Ory Okolloh

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

Kenyan Activist

Tiya Sircar

Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of situations.

Joyce Banda

I am tremendously inspired by many women around the world who work under dire circumstances to make a difference for their families.

Politician

Lee Min-ho

When I became an actor, I decided I had enough time, talent, and resources to support people who are in dire need of assistance.

South Korean Actor

John Sweeney

We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.

Used to express situations with serious implications, often life-affecting.

Grave Importance

Indicates a situation worse than bad; implies extreme negativity.

Not Just Bad

Amplifies the severity of a need or crisis.

Intensity Marker

Stresses an immediate need or a situation requiring quick action or attention.

Urgency Expressed

Expresses that a situation or condition is as bad as it can get.

Extreme Troubles

Used informally to negatively judge something, like a performance or work.

Quality Judgment

Conveys a very strong form of criticism, suggesting something is almost intolerably bad.

Harsh Criticism

 Even in today's world, their situation would be really dire, but think about how much worse it would have been then. No one on land had any idea that anything had gone wrong. No search party was coming to look for these men. So most of us have never experienced a situation as frightening as the one in which these sailors found themselves,

What fear can teach us PIPE...

 because it can have dire consequences in many situations. Failure to recognize the fact that a compromise between two positions, one of which is morally indefensible, is also morally indefensible, has helped to perpetuate countless injustices large and small.

Can you outsmart the...

 like I said -- soldiers, medical professionals -- for them, as we know, mind-wandering can be really dire. So we want to make sure we offer them very accessible, low time constraints to optimize the training, so they can benefit from it.

How to tame your...

 a diagnosis of diabetes in a human patient would remain tantamount to a death sentence until the early 20th century, its causes unknown. What changed this dire situation was the help of humanity's longtime animal Canis lupus familiaris,

What did dogs teach...

 that means we're firm believers in modernity and technological progress sure it's fun to fantasize about simpler lives but not for the billions of people around the world in dire poverty whose lives of hardship are not a choice they

An eco-modernist...

 Now, I just want to stress that I'm completely aware of the very dire threats of global warming and climate change. I just want to acknowledge that choosing to have babies is a deeply, profoundly personal choice.

The case for having kids...

 If you defend yourself, if you put a stake in the ground, there can be dire consequences. Now we reproduce these patterns not in big, bold and blunt ways, but in the everyday banality of life.

The power of women's...

 after an hour I found on the forest floor the rinds and cause of durian fruit which I knew was the favorite food of the orang utan I showed it to the dire could come with me and he confirmed

Young David Attenborough...

 the deepest maybe stuff these men are dire key man who live in some guy who teak they are the custodians of one of the helmeted hornbills last remaining nesting areas

Black Market Demand for...

 what we can take out and what we can put in without dire consequences to the nature of the ocean thus to the underpinnings of what makes life possible from us

Dire