They had reason to be dismayed, for their visitor -- this writer, then 26 and working for The Globe and Mail, a Canadian paper that alone among Western newspapers had a bureau in China -- had had only a few months of instruction in Chinese, and knew little more of the country than could be gleaned from a half dozen books.
"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God," one mourner wrote in red marker pen on a yellow card propped against the church's black wrought-iron fence.
She was dismayed, for example, when a State Department official seemed to ascribe Nigeria's bomb attacks on Christians more to poverty than to religious zealotry.Whether they work inside the corridors of power or outside them, all religious-freedom advocates in Washington, DC, find they have to make pragmatic arguments as well as moral ones.
You may admire, tolerate or be dismayed at people for qualities or behaviors they display.
There's never been another Christmas record quite like it, something we should perhaps at once be dismayed about, yet ultimately quite grateful for.
This is disappointing, yet those many Burmese working for a democratic Burma have so much to be dismayed about.
(Reader, don't be dismayed: there are those accouterments, too).
Those who hoped that, alongside this, we should see the rise of a diverse, semi-socialised banking sector were dismayed as, for example, the caja de ahorro sector in Spain, and then the Co-operative Bank in the UK, entered crises contingent on mismanagement and their entanglement with politics.
ʿAlī and his kinsmen were dismayed but agreed for the sake of unity to accept the fait accompli because ʿAlī was still young.
American officials were dismayed to learn, for example, of the latest action by the Chinese this week in barring imports of American-made films, many of them Hollywood blockbusters.
The government and other pro-agreement parties are dismayed bystanders, hoping for a swift resolution but knowing lengthy procedural wrangling is likelier.The rebels, in alliance with Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party and several smaller splinter groups, now represent the majority voice in unionism.
