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- Kevin, New York"American Idol":"Regarding 'American Idol': I am always dismayed when they criticize someone for sounding "Broadway," as if that's a terrible thing.
To the Editor: I am not a fan of recorded books in any format myself, but I am always dismayed when authors like David A. Kelly, in his article "Digital Entertainment: New Audio Books Pack a Lot More Prose" (Practical Traveler, May 14) fail to mention that the materials they are writing about are available free to registered borrowers at many public libraries.
He is always dismayed when his second-in-command, Inspector Mimì Augello, sprinkles an excess of Parmesan over a subtly flavoured dish.
However, when I print my work out and re-read it on the page, I'm always dismayed at how much less it good it is – so I have to re-write it.
But I was always dismayed at how little of Italy's gourmand treasures and even other local food, the fervently hunted local pig for one, were sold in the stores around the fecund hills of the capital and elsewhere.
"Of course, you couldn't expect the director to have much time for the troubled son," one witness to the time says, "but when Max appeared at the Warburg teas, I was always dismayed by the way Gombrich paid so little attention to him").
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So I'm always surprised, and a little dismayed, when RPGs are left out of the popular discussion about books and reading.
On the Natural History of Destruction is such a timely and startling book because Sebald is not proud to be telling the truth about Germany after the war, he is just dismayed that it might always need to be told.
WD Snodgrass, a wonderful poet who is always an exuberant performer on the podium, was dismayed one year in Edinburgh to be given a fearful ticking off by Auden for the manner of his reading.
Keen to placate the Sun – Murdoch's baby and always under his direct, near-daily guidance, even now – which had savaged Neil Kinnock, Blair dismayed his party by accepting.
Spoiler alert: the end of the world never did arrive, though there were some who were always seeing signs in the sun and the moon; nations were always being dismayed; and waves surged on to no great effect.
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