| And yet it is doubtful if he would have been recognised, so direly had tribulation altered him. |
| Armenia is no longer direly short of energy. But a coming oil bonanza in Azerbaijan will tilt the power-balance away from Armenia again. |
| While both may be necessary, the emphasis to date has been on the latter, when the former is more direly needed. |
| The show within the show presents expressions that are variously artisanal, feminist, and direly satirical. |
| The voyage took them over an often rough sea that direly tested the endurance of Oscar Pelletier, even with his background as a sailor. |
| Many a good comrade's fate is known to me, so far, by that direly comprehensive word, missing. |
