Sentence examples for on consternation from inspiring English sources

The governor's staff members, perplexed by the mayor's candid remarks, have at times contacted City Hall to express, at least in one case, "amazement, bordering on consternation, with some colorful language," said one city official who took that call.

"Astonishment verging on consternation filled the Assemblymen, who, through long experience, were convinced that Truth was too precious to be exhibited in public," Thayer declared in his biography.

This secondary demarcation is a new innovation and causes a certain amount of consternation on the door.

There was a look of consternation on her face; she looked like she wanted to slap me but couldn't bring herself to do it.

I once had a good friend ask me, "When the bullets started flying, how did you know who you could really trust?" With a look of consternation on my face, I had to stop and think for a second.

So there was no shortage of consternation on Saturday morning, when a rift between branches of the environmental movement appeared to have contributed to the failure of pivotal negotiations aimed at completing a pioneering climate treaty.

I couldn't help but notice a tinge of consternation on the faces of those overseeing the project.

– After a few hours of consternation on Thursday afternoon, it was determined that Luke Donald did not sign an incorrect scorecard and will not be disqualified from the Masters.

But to consternation on the left and mockery on the right, Valérie Trierweiler, Mr Hollande's current partner, this week tweeted a good luck message to Ms Royal's opponent, Olivier Falorni.

The very presence of large amounts of these creations in the artworld today has contributed to consternation on the part of professionals and public alike about just how art is to be defined and conceived.

Thus, to perhaps see one firm surpass the other in worth is something that will cause consternation on one end, and smugness on the other.