It's a dismaying circumstance.
EXAMINED from close up, this has been a dismaying election.
But there is a dismaying conformism beneath its naughty surface.
The country saw what it found to be a dismaying spectacle.
His recent piece about Ukraine (or more accurately about why Ukraine should belong to Russia) is a dismaying lapse.
It's a dismaying fact, but no female choreographer has been commissioned to create a ballet on the Covent Garden main stage for more than a decade now.
"It is a dismaying tale," Sam Tanenhaus wrote here in 1998, though Moynihan tells it "with uncommon liveliness and a mordant wit".
Everyone else in the film is a dismaying caricature, so much so that it costs the movie some credibility, especially where the adult characters are concerned.
It is a dismaying reminder that baseball continues to enable the tawdry likes of Rodriguez at deliberate cost to those who play it straight.
It's a dismaying downfall for the former richest man in mainland China.
