(1) Dark, direful clouds floated overhead, threatening to release a downpour of rain at any moment, so the park was void of visitors.(2) Indeed, he is reaching down to that best-known of lieder Schubert published as his Opus 1, and reanimating, in his kaleidoscopic way, the direful night-time gallop of a father and son pursued by a pure demonic force.(3) From classical times, too, we have the phrase ‘deus ex machina’ to describe those dramas in which a hideously direful circumstance is abruptly set to rights through the intercession of some benevolent god or other.(4) The resultant blur is an emblem of the paranoid experience, a concurrence of simultaneous direful events.(5) The war wages on and the winter is hard, but in these most direful moments I draw warmth from the fond memories I hold of you.(6) Sometimes, indeed, in his sleep, he would utter little yells, as from pain, but that occurred, no doubt, when in his dreams he encountered huge flaming dogs who threatened him direfully .(7) Immigration lawyers vary in standard from the very brilliant, to the direfully inadequate, and for those immigration candidates whose English is less than adequate, informing oneself becomes practically impossible.(8) Opponents of this sea change were aghast and direfully warned that if this were to occur, the sky would fall and civilization as we know it would come to an end.(9) And the city began to take fire, and to burn very direfully ; and it burned all that night and all the next day, till vesper-time.(10) The pupil's words may be right, but the conceptions corresponding to them are often direfully wrong.
