Sentence examples for consternation of a from inspiring English sources

To the consternation of a blindsided D'Angelo, it appeared as a dense 20-page epilogue inside the covers of the Russian edition of his memoir.

Radio 1's average age is now 33, to the consternation of a deeply threatened commercial sector, which says it sounds too grown-up, too much like Radio 2. Both services should be privatised say some media executives.

Yet he's not drawn to dramatic scenarios; the highest emotion shown here is the consternation of a little boy in a barber's chair, comforted by an older child who is probably his brother.

To the surprise of many Democrats -- and to the consternation of a few -- the New York gubernatorial campaign has struck a negative tone with an unexpected speed and sudden intensity.

There are the worshipers who, much to the consternation of a church trying to build its ranks, freely file into Father Betancourt's parish, the Church of Our Lady of Charity in central Havana, to lay flowers at a statue of the country's patroness, but rarely stay for Father Betancourt's Mass.

The wild gender plays of Eikoh Hosoe and Tatsumi Hijikata's Kamaitachi, in which Hosoe dances, leaps and poses in the fields and streets, sometimes to the consternation of a group of children, is full of joyous abandon and abjection in a series of gorgeous images.

They discussed investments in Russia and, to the consternation of an interpreter, even talked to each other in Spanish.

Because the politicians know, or should have known, the following facts about the annual budget and the national debt and not cause consternation of an impending decline in U.S credit rating that would be very injurious to the economy.

His guilty plea to conspiracy to commit tax evasion puts back on track a faltering case that had become, to the consternation of prosecutors, a referendum on the constitutional rights of white-collar defendants, rather than the largest criminal inquiry ever into abusive tax shelters.

At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Nike handed out caps at transport hubs that spectators wore into the stadium to the consternation of Reebok, a sponsor.

I vary them more or less thoughtlessly in my writing, sometimes to the consternation of copy editors, a number of whom abide by the convention that farther is for literal distance and further for metaphoric distance.