Whatever Monkeedom still attached to him (and it was considerable) did not dismay him.
"You know what I mean," he said, flatteringly, but easily as if her looks, and his pleasure in her looks, didn't dismay him as they once had.
Yet that does not dismay a growing number of America's not-very-strident.
Violence did not dismay them; it was right down their street... Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not with hand-wrought duelling pistols, curare, and tropical fish.
The shortness of the speech did not dismay the crowds, who knew his arguments well: they were there to see and hear William Jennings Bryan one listener told him that he had read every one of his speeches, and had ridden 50 mile to hear him, "And, by gum, if I wasn't a Republican, I'd vote for you".
If you didn't answer yes, don't dismay.
If you get the multiple choice wrong the first time, don't dismay.
If the FBI is threatened, that doesn't entirely dismay the libertarian crowd that seems to be overrepresented in the hacker community.
His world is not unraveling and he does not feel dismay.
But her bad decision, though it dismays and bewilders Powell, doesn't lead him to abandon her or to write her off.
