Sentence examples for has a dismaying from inspiring English sources

This fat selection of Nadine Gordimer's non-fiction gets off to a slightly shaky start, and has a dismaying last couple of hundred pages.

The Times also has a dismaying story on how broken the Minerals Management Service has been in recent years — ignoring its own scientists, giving companies approvals to drill without environmental permits.

But all the hype about block parties, big champagne orders and wedding kitsch of unspeakable tackiness has obscured a dismaying fact: The royal nuptials are likely to be a drag on Britain's economy, not a boost.

In the hypothetical situation that the programme would have sent to endoscopy only 'suspicious of cancer' subjects, sensitivity would have dropped to a dismaying 58%.

Shirin's brother, Parviz, strapped for cash in Brooklyn, reduced to working in his Hasidic landlord's hat shop, has a more practical dismay: "Why is it, he wonders, that no one understands his situation?

I also have stacks of CDs and gigabytes of MP3s (alas, a "lossy" format), plus, in the car, Sirius/XM satellite radio, which, to my passengers' dismay, has a channel devoted exclusively to the Dead.

EXAMINED from close up, this has been a dismaying election.

What once seemed a charming dream for the richest country in the region has now turned into a dismaying present.

The unauthorised demolition of a World War II tunnel has dismayed a Guernsey historical group.

His voice rising in dismay, Owen has a talent, it turns out, not just for bitter tirades but for earnest puzzlement.

A man named Stevens is listed as having shot a dismaying 155 at Tamarack in East Brunswick, more than double par.