No matter how much strife and consternation you face, no matter how much you want to shout and scream, take the high road.
But if you choose to relieve their consternation, you might be guided by the advice of a polyamorous friend who, speaking of similar situations, told me via e-mail: "I figure the best policy is to behave as if nothing inappropriate is happening.
The minutes of the Fed's March meeting caused some consternation because you continue to tweak the mechanical details of your plan for raising interest rates.
And I said, 'Oh do stop asking questions, just shut up, Will.' Well, I go down to breakfast about half an hour later into this sort of rigid family in shock" – she affects wide-eyed consternation – "saying, 'You must never, ever tell a small child to shut up.' And I say, 'What?
OK, so it is to my never-ending consternation that whenever you change a diaper around family and friends (to my changing of 20 diapers), you are praised for how hands-on you are.
In Beijing several years ago, a pedicab driver taking me across Tiananmen Square wheeled around and shrieked at me in utter consternation: "Who are you?
(To those of you expressing consternation at being called a lady, I understand your pain, but I also quote Shoshanna: "Yes you are, you're the ladies").
There has been a great deal of consternation among Hispanics that you don't support the Dream Act, which provides a path to citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
If the A7 cost a mere $3,000 more than the A6, I could imagine the conversations and consternation at Audi dealers: "You mean I can have this boring sedan or that sexy thing in the corner for three grand more?
Strip away the week's tumult, the stunning change on the bench and the consternation that followed, and you would swear that the Knicks were still riding high on the fumes of their February magic.
My outburst caused no small amount of consternation, I can tell you.
