Sentence examples for a dismaying from inspiring English sources

What once seemed a charming dream for the richest country in the region has now turned into a dismaying present.

At the very least, a cap on size could stop a dismaying trend of big banks getting ever bigger and more powerful.

All told, the spill killed fifty-six hundred birds, a dismaying number, but a small fraction of the quarter million that died in the Exxon Valdez spill.

What begins as an incisive critique of how economists and policymakers abandoned community ends as a dismaying illustration of the problem.

"It is a dismaying tale," Sam Tanenhaus wrote here in 1998, though Moynihan tells it "with uncommon liveliness and a mordant wit".

From one angle, it is one more sign of a dismaying trend toward exhibitions dominated by a historical or cultural theme, the more sensational the better.

It's a dismaying fact, but no female choreographer has been commissioned to create a ballet on the Covent Garden main stage for more than a decade now.

It is a dismaying reminder that baseball continues to enable the tawdry likes of Rodriguez at deliberate cost to those who play it straight.

This is a dismaying situation for a biologist.

In the hypothetical situation that the programme would have sent to endoscopy only 'suspicious of cancer' subjects, sensitivity would have dropped to a dismaying 58%.

A dismaying development.