Sentence examples for would have dismayed from inspiring English sources

He had not dared suggest, even to his grandparents, that he be allowed to visit his father in prison, for such a request would have dismayed and infuriated them, and there was no chance, not the faintest glimmer of a chance, that he might say such a thing to his mother.

Recruitment posters exhorted young men to "Remember Edith Cavell" and the numbers volunteering for the front doubled.In this section On top of the world Banker to the world Killer instinct Carve her name with pride Man in motion ReprintsAll this would have dismayed Cavell.

The resurgence of interest and imitation, however, would have dismayed Kennedy who, after her second widowhood (to the Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis), complained that the continuing obsession with her influence on fashion was both incomprehensible to her and a grinding annoyance.

The first few weeks of the Trump Administration would have dismayed Woodson, whose mission was to have African-American accomplishments recognized, and the complexities of African-American life acknowledged.

The sweet, engrossing, middlebrow braid of The Hours would have dismayed Virginia Woolf, its ostensible linchpin, as a serious venture in fiction, and Joyce would have begrudged By Nightfall the rationed reading time (failing eyes) he gave so willingly to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

The Desilu TV series attributed many exploits to Ness himself that -- had he been alive at the time -- would almost certainly have dismayed him.

The patent wars have dismayed many, who find the legal fighting tedious, and wish the companies would just work on innovation.

But she would have been dismayed by the messy reality.

Brandt would have been dismayed by such elucidation, but how could he object?

Had Vonnegut known that his phrase would be reduced, and trivialized, to a mere shrug of the shoulders, he would have been dismayed.

And he would have been dismayed to learn of schools that seem to suspend and discipline only young African-American boys".