Sentence examples for mere dismay from inspiring English sources

It expressed mere dismay when Marcus Brauchli was ushered out as The Wall Street Journal managing editor shortly after News Corporation's takeover.

We know that if we even suggest that we are a parental figure, we may be met with dismay at the mere thought of such a thing.

Having managed, for most of his five months in office, to dodge the political shells by keeping everybody guessing about his intentions, he is now under fire from Democrats and fellow Republicans alike.Right-wingers are dismayed at the mere $18.4 billion in extra spending he has proposed for the next fiscal year, ending in September 2002.

ANY mere mortal might have reacted with dismay, even anger, if a group of brash newcomers threatened to undo the accomplishments of a lifetime.

Hugh Bonneville, as the Duke of Gloucester and the realm's protector, conveys with the merest lift of an eyebrow his dismay at the kingdom's descent into tribal war.

This absurd LinkedIn story – there are no such profiles – is evidence of how precarious this all is as a line of inquiry: focusing on such fancy-thattery hauls the perpetrators of the most grotesque violence into the same sort of territory as the ice bucket challenge, making their crimes not news – real, dismaying news – but a mere input to the News Machine.

Had Vonnegut known that his phrase would be reduced, and trivialized, to a mere shrug of the shoulders, he would have been dismayed.

Is "The Fever's " acerbic tone mere journalistic device or does it reflect true doubt and dismay over the still-unfolding drama of man versus malaria?

Celebrity helped the cause, but it appalled him.He had little enough to hide: a clutch of Utopian left-wing views, and one dismaying brush with Holocaust denial which seemed the mere misjudgment of old age.

The Christians said they had been dismayed to see the inspiring prophet Jesus reduced to a mere victim.

Until women play a larger and more significant role, its development will suffer.Barbara Felitti Huntington, VermontA real buzz to the economySIR – It was with dismay that I read Lexington reducing the contribution of the honey bee to a mere "$24 billion" (July 5th).