One of the things my father was dismayed about is that a word he coined to describe a phenomenon he considered ghastly has become used to describe something that all parties claim as their lodestar".
"And the tragedy of Shylock's ultimate humiliation, which she brings about, is echoed by her own dismayed discovery of the world that she must now live in".
Whatever mixed feelings Firth may now have about being defined by Darcy, he can't be as dismayed as Olivier was.
Initially, I was really dismayed about that as I was listening to the tracks, but I've come to really enjoy it, and it was so much fun to play that piece.
Other relatives of Marchella are dismayed about what happened to her. "It's wrong," the child's great-aunt, Levonnia Parnell, said.
Nele Meyer, who is responsible for Roma issues at Amnesty International, said her group was "deeply dismayed about the fact that the commission is totally silent about discrimination, focusing only on the future behavior of France".
There's never been another Christmas record quite like it, something we should perhaps at once be dismayed about, yet ultimately quite grateful for.
Still, preservationists like Michael Henry Adams, who has been fighting for Harlem's architectural patrimony for decades, are dismayed about losing another historical treasure.
This is disappointing, yet those many Burmese working for a democratic Burma have so much to be dismayed about.
