Instead, the judges wrote, with what sounded like dismay, the government had "taken the position that the President's decisions about immigration policy, particularly when motivated by national-security concerns, are unreviewable, even if those actions potentially contravene constitutional rights and protections".
He widens his eyes in what seems to be an effort at feigned surprise but comes off looking more like mock dismay.
I should like to express my dismay at not only the proliferation of external reports telling us what changes need to be made, but also governments throughout the cricket world telling us how to run the game.
All of that is reason for dismay, unless you like watching games like Steelers-Ravens turn into something resembling a bar brawl, as Gene Wojciechowski writes on ESPN.com.
(To my slight dismay, neither likes Westerns).
Simultaneously and in like measure, I am dismayed by incessant carping that what he's been able to accomplish (at lightspeed no less) is not exactly what some of us had in mind.
"She exploded into our lives," Nadia, the younger sister, notes with dismay, "like a fluffy pink grenade".
If someone decides to take the open seat next to you, don't sigh deeply in dismay like Al of Gore.
A poke at multiple personalities?) Charles writes of yesteryear, when students clamored for "those challenging, annoying, offensive, sometimes silly, always polemic authors whom young people used to adore to their parents' dismay," like Hunter S. Thompson and Richard Brautigan.
He is at a loss for words when Ben asks him his skills, but his pudgy face is shockingly scrutable — feelings like puzzlement or dismay flicker for a split second, then are quickly reabsorbed into Roman's deep pool of good cheer.
Here is Nancy Grace, same as she ever was: pencil-thin eyebrows contorted in dismay like EKG waves; seashell-size pendant necklace; hair bleached to crunchy blond straw; perpetually discombobulated, as if in every moment of her life you are witnessing her after she'd just gone to the bathroom in a stall where there was no toilet paper.
