Sentence examples for severe consternation from inspiring English sources
An article in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal argued that the rash of "new" ideas and the wholesale rejection of time-honored precedent within medicine were causing severe consternation: "Does any one pant after eminence and distinction let him attack opinions which have been long received, and which are sheltered under the authority of illustrious and venerable names".
What caused us consistent mental consternation, though, was the realization that the problem could have been more severe.
The showings of Ms. Michelson's "Devotion Study #1 — The American Dancer" at the Whitney Biennial (it won the show's Bucksbaum Award) were fascinating for the consternation they caused among visual-arts audiences, who seemed ill-prepared for the exacting, severe intensity of Ms. Michelson's work.
Commanders voiced consternation.
ONLOOKERS first stared in consternation.
That caused bitter consternation.
This caused much consternation.
The offer caused consternation.
Nevertheless, the dip is causing consternation.
