Sentence examples for any dismay from inspiring English sources
Veteran film writer David Thomson agrees: "My guess is that any dismay at her remark on racial grounds is countered by other people saying: good for her".
Any dismay his owner's brother, Sheikh Mohammed, might feel over the defeat of his own champion will be vitiated by the reflection that the only horse to have beaten Invasor is Discreet Cat. This is the freakish, unbeaten colt he kept in reserve behind Bernardini, knowing he would still be around for Godolphin next year.
Grieve has previously said he regretted any distress, dismay or alarm that his decision to record the meeting may have caused Brooks or Lawrence's parents.
Grieve, who was director of the racial and violent crimes taskforce between 1998 and 2002, told the BBC he deeply regretted any distress, dismay or alarm that his decision may have caused Brooks, or Lawrence's parents, Doreen and Neville.
Let's put aside any bygone dismay at the outgoing American president's chiding that a naughty British electorate voting to leave the EU would be ostracised to "the back of the queue" in the "five to ten year" negotiation of a US-UK trade deal that neither party requires anyway.
It is not any less dismaying, or potentially damaging.
I'm never in any way dismayed when something is so anxious to be written that it rips into the page as soon as I give it the chance and won't let me be until it's done – and if I have to load up on Kopi Luwak and Red Bull and hold on tight for a few days to keep up, then so be it.
It could also dismay any forgers who think the spot works are particularly conducive to fakery.
But the strong start to 2014 will dismay any would-be buyers who may have been hoping the market would slow down after a busy autumn, and will strengthen calls for the Bank of England to take action to prevent a bubble.
If President Obama rejects or waters down General McChrystal's request, he would be sending a terrible message of irresolution that would embolden the Taliban and dismay any Afghans tempted to cooperate with coalition forces.
However, even if literary fiction is doing relatively worse in e-book form than in print, I still don't think that's any reason for dismay.
