Sentence examples for being dismayed from inspiring English sources

Far from being dismayed, Coward was thrilled that he would now at last be able to make a serious contribution to the war effort, making a statement to the effect that he would write nothing until the war was won.

Mr. MacLeish said one of his clients came forward after being dismayed to hear Bishop Dupre discussing same-sex marriage and saying that the church had the right to sanction people's sex lives.

Mrs. Stern recalled being dismayed watching her eldest son, a ninth grader, do the kind of community service that helped no one, like stacking books in a synagogue library or checking its pens for ink.

Redknapp has made no secret of the fact that he considered this competition to be far less significant than the Champions League but still professed to being dismayed that the result in the group's other game — between Paok Salonika and Rubin Kazan — meant that those two teams qualified at Spurs' expense.

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.

For his first major solo exhibition in 1989, after being dismayed with not having any idea of what to show, he simply shut the doors of the gallery and put up a sign that read "Torno subito" ("Be Right Back"), a slogan Axelrod used as the title of her film.

Good citizens were dismayed and disgusted.

Democrats are dismayed, as are some moderate Republicans.

"We're dismayed and hurt," Ms. Taylor said.

Proponents of electric cars were dismayed.

As a Christian, I was dismayed".