Sentence examples for mild dismay from inspiring English sources
She looks down at them with mild dismay.
My own reaction, having seen the finished product, is more one of mild dismay.
To Scott's mild dismay, he was introduced as the 2004 Players Champion but not the Masters champion.
Sixty-something years on, in 2013, quite a lot of people would probably concede a similar anxiety: or at least some mild dismay at the overall crassness of English prose in the age of global communications.
Earlier, the Leafs off-loaded captain and defensive pylon, Dion Phaneuf, to the Ottawa Senators, to the delight of Leafs fans who'd tired of him, and to the mild dismay of Sens fans who now have a former, expensive, Leaf on their team.
Last month, we wrote about the Obama re-election campaign selling $30 "O'Bama" T-shirts "just in time for St . Patricks Day" that were adorned with a four-leaf clover, to the mild dismay of some Irish purists who pointed out that the symbol of Ireland, the shamrock, actually has only three leaves.
That is why this system is called a mild hybrid, much to Honda's dismay.
To the eternal dismay of his mother, Paul Seneschal, a mild nineteen-year-old French Canadian, presents himself as a postulant at St. Norbert Abbey, an order near his home, in rural Manitoba.
Squirrels are also master kvetchers, modulating their utterances to convey the nature and severity of their complaint: a moaning "kuk" for mild discomfort, a buzzing sound for more pressing distress, and a short scream for extreme dismay.
We see the dismay of bureaucrats, the excitement of journalists, the hysteria of the government, and the mild non-response of the citizens, who, when asked how they voted, refuse to say, reminding the questioner that the question is illegal.
