None of them are wrong, but over all so many dashes produce a loose, ramshackle effect in the prose.
Given so many dashed hopes in the past that Mr. Levine would come back, Mr. Gelb said, "it has to be really clear that his return is credible this time".
Equal rights for women, emancipation, Reconstruction, civil rights: so many hopes, dashed; so many causes, lost.
To some critics, that cooperative philosophy is one reason that so many boys like Dash are bored at school.
I've had so many adventures with Dash I just can't even remember them all… Driving down one-way streets in Milan at 100 miles an hour, blasting "I Did It My Way" in a white van.
No express lane in a city built on the notion of speed, when grocery shopping for so many residents involves dashing in the store for a few items as they head home at the end of the day?
So many meetings, in fact, Dash said she sometimes loses her voice because of all the talking.
Without it the report's just so many good intentions and dashed hopes.
The element that made this race so hard on favorites, dashed so many dreams, was the unpredictable but mandatory element of luck.
Our hopes have been raised and dashed so many times," Ashok Hindocha, a hotelier and Anni Dewani's uncle, told the Guardian on the phone from Sweden.
