Sentence examples for a dismay from inspiring English sources

Hers was a dismay ordinarily reserved for things covered with blood.

In "How Music Works" (McSweeney's), a wide-ranging book of essays, David Byrne expresses a dismay shared by many of his peers.

The Michigan and Illinois albums betray dismay at the downside of the American Dream, a dismay that's no less powerful for being expressed through highly personal vignettes.

Though the script is sparse, her silences exude an overload of conflicting emotion – a dismay, anguish, loneliness, and fury too dangerously combustible to express.

Those listening out for signs of a dismay that might be exploited by post-Brexit Britain will have been encouraged – up to a point.

But I think it reflects first and foremost a dismay at the current state of the world economy, and a conclusion that the elites who are running it do not know what they are doing.

This hypothesis implies a dismaying irony.

EXAMINED from close up, this has been a dismaying election.

But there is a dismaying conformism beneath its naughty surface.

The trade deficit is always a dismaying topic.

The country saw what it found to be a dismaying spectacle.