Sentence examples for dismaying message from inspiring English sources

Evaluation studies based on data from the late 1980's and the 1990's – summarized by, e.g., Calmfors et al. (2001) – tended to convey a rather dismaying message; ALMP apparently did little to help unemployed job seekers back to work.

You take the phone and to your dismay, the message is from your ex.

Dismayed that the messages behind his complex lyricism were frequently lost on listeners and didn't carry well during live performances, West made an attempt to simplify his lyrics and use more skeletal rhyme schemes for more straightforward verses while concentrating on speaking volumes with sparser wording on Graduation.

The results were dismaying: About 9% of properly addressed messages failed to hit the mark.

It's dismaying to me that I've gotten very few such messages from non-Muslims.

The results were dismaying.

"It's becoming really dismaying.

Bizarre – and somewhat dismaying.

The precedents were dismaying.

The numbers are dismaying.

This is a dismaying situation for a biologist.