Sentence examples for dismaying way from inspiring English sources

What bothered me at the premiere, however, was the dismaying way their oddity had been ironed out into conventional femininity.

To Professor Tufte (pronounced TUF-tee), that chart exemplifies a dismaying pattern in the way data are presented in too many meetings, especially those dominated by "the overhead projector that magically rises out of the rosewood table" or its electronic successor, a computer linked to a projector, running a presentation program like Microsoft's PowerPoint.

More dismaying, even to him, is the way art‐as‐public‐power confuses itself with art‐as‐per sonal‐power, making it in the New York literary world.

In the same way, clues to the most dismaying financial scandal of our time -- the off-the-books legerdemain that ruined Enron and stained the accounting dodge -- were largely ignored by sleepy credit agencies, conflicted analysts and most of the business media.

We agreed that the earmuffs and the kitty hat were essentially useless in blocking sound, a dismaying discovery because I thought they made quite a fashion statement.

This is a dismaying abdication of responsibility.

Why was the new report so dismaying?

Off the field, though, there have been some dismaying incidents.

"Excuse me" the apology became "Excuse me?" the accusation, used in roughly the same way as the scornful "Really?" (I heard it employed just that way the other day on the Disney teenage series "Jessie," a dismaying example for our young people).

The V.O.A.'s dismaying actions continue despite State's disapproval.

Probably on public transport, is the dismaying answer.