direness

No time like the present to determine the direness of her straits.

One panel was Golden's direness; the other said don't worry.

Upstairs the direness of her financial situation was obvious, so all guests were strictly forbidden.

His appetite seemed to have expanded in direct proportion to the direness of their jeopardy.

Despite the direness of the situation, he grinned.

Despite the direness of his predicament, he mused that it was good to be the captain.

The dragon's toothy grin only emphasized the direness of the situation.

The direness is the fault of former President Reagan.

Cugel poured a third measure and again the charm signified direness.

Had he taken my shirt and pants, the direness of the situation would have been immediately telegraphed to passers-by.

His case reflects the direness of the situation of human rights in North Korea.

"Sweetie," she said aloud, chuckling despite the direness of the situation, "you're just too easy to read."

When an organ becomes available, it is matched with potential donors, who are ranked according to blood type, direness of condition, location and other factors.

"Cybernetic implants," replied the computer, utterly unperturbed by the direness of the words.

So he flew to Australia to inform his client of the direness of his financial situation.

In fact, despite the direness of Tyr's impending visit, Jaden found she was almost looking forward to seeing him.

I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.

He watched the sweat break out on Sulu's forehead as his helmsman realized both the direness of the situation and the opportunity ahead of him.

The Doctor glowered, and despite the direness of the situation, Kaz hid a smile at the banter.

With ideological walls tumbling and affinities popping up, lesser practitioners find themselves in straits whose direness matches those of their heroes.

Thus did The Shadow reason; and the correctness of his deductions proved the direness of his present situation.

The straight-forward but quirky presentation of adolescent concerns and direness in the simplest of worries gives the songs their easy likeability.

Joe Torre recognized the direness of the situation and recognized that the first-place Yankees were flirting with a fiasco.

The direness of her predicament threatened to overwhelm her, until she remembered that she actually had a friend not that far from her current location.

Compounding the city's difficulties, and, in effect, helping to stem the population loss, was a secondary factor: the direness of the city's poverty, and its concentration.