Sentence examples for cause for dismay from inspiring English sources

At the last minute, it was canceled, initially a cause for dismay.

While the findings reported are well taken, I'm not so sure that women leaving astronomy is cause for dismay.

The fact that the US military has become the most active US foreign policy agency is a cause for dismay by many foreign policy observers.

(Or cause for dismay: from here in Columbia County, the decision to keep New York City public schools open just seems mean).

Hence the possibility of the result many people feared an electoral-college president who lost the popular vote (though it was supposed to be Mr Gore).On its own, this might not be cause for dismay.

A scan of the most appalling reality shows of the past year may be cause for dismay, but people who work in the genre note another side to the spectrum.

To the advisers who had hovered about him over the years, it was cause for alarm and dismay that he had placed so much trust in Brooke's ability.

In Cheever's case, the gulf between the received image of the revered author and the revealed truth – as one American editor put it – of "a writer who had just masturbated, doodling in the margins of his despair or boredom or occasional euphoria while waiting to hit the bottle" was, in some quarters, a cause for profound dismay.

In Norfolk, Virginia, Gibson attended Pines Elementary School, where the teachers' lack of encouragement for him to read was a cause of dismay for his parents.

Still, dismaying as it may sound, a continuing United States trade deficit with Japan is not in itself necessarily any cause for alarm -not if it can be held to a relatively modest $15 billion or $20 billion a year.

So it is time to face up to the fact, however much it may disappoint some, that the Olympics are about to be a tremendous, towering, runaway popular success – and that this is cause for rejoicing, not dismay.