Sentence examples for dismayed on from inspiring English sources

V.S. Naipaul, who as a boy in Trinidad and a young man in England had read and admired Narayan, was dismayed, on first travelling to India, to find it "cruel and overwhelming" compared to the cozy and comic world of Narayan's novels.

This small bit of introductory memoir was so delightful that I was dismayed, on moving to the main text, to find myself abruptly plunged into a set piece on horticultural horoscopes, followed by a column on the seeds Pavord intends to sow this January — but which January is "this" January?

I was dismayed on Memorial Day weekend to read that only in the 1970s, during and after the Vietnam War, did high school students feel a certain sadness about the war and trim down their prom excesses.

We worked him hard, as did the tutor, and we gave him as good a run-up as we could, but we were dismayed on the day of the exam to see hundreds and hundreds of other boys turning up, and after speaking to other parents realised they were coming from as far away as Brighton and Birmingham.

That said, those who were dismayed on Twitter seemed to differentiate between Abramson's views and those of the conference in general.

Her professors were dismayed-bordering-on-horrified by works such as Bigamy, in which an abstract penis was "stopped in flight" before it could unite with its vaginal equivalent (this work connected to the death of her first husband, who had died in a car crash).

She describes the reaction of two grandfathers who have been successful and lived full lives: "Both were dismayed, and one was disgusted, on hearing my choice of theme.

He was therefore dismayed to learn, on August 20, when the bulk of his forces had been repulsed at Gumbinnen (August 19 20) by Rennenkampf's attack from the east, that Samsonov's 13 divisions had crossed the southern frontier of East Prussia and were thus threatening his rear.

The Arabic hashtag "Zidane's statue in Qatar" triggered a "massive" reaction from dismayed conservatives on Twitter, said AFP, with one user sarcastically posting: "Congratulations for having new idols".

Tells how the American-format rights to OAbFab" were captured by Roseanne--a gutsy move that has nevertheless dismayed AbFans on the Internet, who feel that any American version will err on the side of vanilla.

Gelb was dismayed that on the opening night "the place was crawling with police, dogs, plainclothes.