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  • The others looked dismayed; only Aragorn, who knew Gandalf well, remained silent and unmoved.   (source)
    dismayed = worried or discouraged
  • He was quite dismayed when he first began to find it out—that most of the men hated their work.   (source)
    dismayed = disappointed or worried
  • "Oh, I BEG your pardon!" she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay,   (source)
    dismay = upset (by her error)
  • To Liesel's dismay, Mama was speechless.†   (source)
  • "Okay," she said, but there was a look of dismay on her small pale face.†   (source)
  • Of course, Baba refused, and everyone shook their heads in dismay at his obstinate ways.†   (source)
  • Other Japanese officers watched, some looking on approvingly, others looking dismayed.†   (source)
  • To Walt's dismay Chris bristled at this small dollop of fatherly advice.†   (source)
  • The judge shook her head in dismay.†   (source)
  • Miss Crocker, dismayed by Mama's seeming unconcern for the seriousness of the matter, thrust her shoulders back and began moving away from the desk.†   (source)
  • She won't show dismay.†   (source)
  • With much dismay, he requested and was reluctantly granted early retirement.†   (source)
  • Follower spoke with dismay.†   (source)
  • Turning in dismay at the interruption, the Count discovered Abram standing behind him in a state of excitement.†   (source)
  • As Lotte skimmed the words, she sighed in dismay.†   (source)
  • I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity.†   (source)
  • He already had been through this on numerous occasions with the new pontiff, who, to Aringarosa's great dismay, had turned out to be a distressingly fervent voice for liberal change in the Church.†   (source)
  • "'The Minister's statement was met with dismay and alarm from the wizarding community, which as recently as last Wednesday was receiving Ministry assurances that there was "no truth whatsoever in these persistent rumours that You-Know-Who is operating amongst us once more".†   (source)
  • They swarmed along the path through the desert more swiftly than a vulture flies and Bod was carried along by them, held high overhead by a pair of strong ghoul arms, tossed from one to another, feeling sick, feeling dread and dismay, feeling stupid.†   (source)
  • Then they looked at each other in dismay.†   (source)
  • Residents of the neighborhood are in absolute dismay.†   (source)
  • The room erupted in outcries of anger and dismay.†   (source)
  • Grant looked at them in dismay.†   (source)
  • But I felt stumped as well as dismayed.†   (source)
  • To his dismay, Celaena began speaking in Eyllwe to the princess, who stomped her staff.†   (source)
  • What I saw in Washington that October were a lot of Americans who were genuinely dismayed by what their country was doing in Vietnam; I also saw a lot of other Americans who were self-righteously attracted to a most childish notion of heroism—namely, their own.†   (source)
  • I lifted the cover of the wok and gasped in dismay.†   (source)
  • I can almost hear Walsh's dismay as she turns to me, confused.†   (source)
  • Dismayed at the thought of missing all the fun and freedom of summer, Sampson secretly cursed the concrete and his foot.†   (source)
  • With dismay, Kit saw the captain's wife among the passengers preparing to disembark.†   (source)
  • Dismayed by the play's mixed reception, left Russia.†   (source)
  • Bran gave a wordless cry of dismay.†   (source)
  • Much to the dismay of the girl working at the record store.†   (source)
  • To Queen Levana's endless dismay, not all Lunars are so easily brainwashed into mindless contentment, and many have risked their lives to escape Luna and relocate here.†   (source)
  • I turned to face him, dismayed.†   (source)
  • Tommy asked, dismayed.†   (source)
  • To our great sorrow and dismay, we've heard that many people have changed their attitude toward us Jews.†   (source)
  • Leo had heard somebody say that before, but he was still dismayed.†   (source)
  • I stopped in the doorway, dismayed, as the cab swooped in from the curb.†   (source)
  • He was dismayed to see that Dart's eyes were filling with tears.†   (source)
  • He looks at it, dismayed.†   (source)
  • She grabbed one of the remaining cups of beer and walked away from the table, to the dismay of the guys who hung on her every movement.†   (source)
  • To her dismay I muttered, "I don't think I should say anything.†   (source)
  • Dismayed by the terrible misunderstanding, the elves tried to end the hostilities, but couldn't find a way to communicate with the dragons.†   (source)
  • With dismay I saw that it was not far past two o'clock.†   (source)
  • And don't look at me like that, Miss Shock-and-Dismay.†   (source)
  • To my dismay, I found myself the center of attention for the rest of that week.†   (source)
  • But then there came a great storm during the rainy season that destroyed all the roofs on all the huts in the village, and the people discovered to their dismay that there was no longer any roofleaf to be found.†   (source)
  • …hundred.
    "Forward the Light Brigade!"
    "Charge for the guns!" he said:
    Into the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
    Rather than stop to explain, he raced on to the next, his favorite verse: "Forward, the Light Brigade!"
    Was there a man dismay'd?
    Not tho' the soldier knew
    Someone had blunder'd:
    Their's not to make reply,
    Their's not to reason why,
    Their's but to do and die:
    Into the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred ….
    Now he realized he should give Michael a bit of…†   (source)
  • To their dismay, the doctor refused to help them.†   (source)
  • The source of Burnham's greatest dismay was the failure of the architects to finish their drawings on schedule.†   (source)
  • The big duels—between Hector and Ajax, between Diomedes and Paris, between Hector and Patroclus, between Hector and Achilles—are genuinely exciting and suspenseful, their outcomes sources of grand celebration and dismay.†   (source)
  • In dismay, I see that he is taller and heavier than I am.†   (source)
  • I felt my face involuntarily slide into an expression of dismay.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun watched, dismayed, as it rose four, five, six feet in the house—above the electrical box, the phone box.†   (source)
  • The ones who saw our isle as a morsel of Red China's pleasure have struck their faces in keen astonishment to see many great so. called powers of the olden guard reel in dismay before our leaping strides and charged-up hustling, freewheeling idiom of high-tech personal accomplishment and betterment of all peoples.†   (source)
  • He should feel angry and dismayed, he supposed.†   (source)
  • I tried to explain that to him, and to my dismay, found myself near tears.†   (source)
  • Jane cried, staring in dismay at the ragged edges of the torn-out page.†   (source)
  • There is agitation and panic in the aisles, dismay in the faces of older shoppers.†   (source)
  • Mo, he's gone!" she said, dismayed.†   (source)
  • A heavy silence blanketed the room as all three Powells stared down in dismay at the mess on the floor.†   (source)
  • Much to their embarrassment and Mammachi's dismay, he forced them to sit at table with him and drink tea.†   (source)
  • They caught up with Nicholas Flamel, who had stopped in front of a small antiques shop, a dismayed look on his face.†   (source)
  • Much to my dismay, I found that the building was full of sofas, mattresses, pots and pans and china, items of everyday use; which meant the Germans would certainly be dropping in for them quite often.†   (source)
  • But what I found at the University was much different than a story, and I was much dismayed.†   (source)
  • As a teacher in the Dayton, Ohio, school system for ten years, I am dismayed and horrified that in this day and age a colleague of mine should suspend a student from school for singing the national anthem.†   (source)
  • He slips into bed, and when I turn to him with open eyes, he looks dismayed I'm awake.†   (source)
  • Not pretty at all, she thought in dismay, and forced the thought back.†   (source)
  • She was dismayed, for the first thing they warned her about when they gave her the cleaning job was that she should not try to sleep with the clients.†   (source)
  • As they'd loaded onto the dropship, he'd been dismayed not to see Glass there.†   (source)
  • Her leathery face displayed a twisting of emotions: dismay, anger ….†   (source)
  • Unlike the multitude of romantics who are disturbed about the chaotic changes science and technology force upon the human spirit, Phaedrus, with his scientifically trained classic mind, was able to do more than just wring his hands with dismay, or run away, or condemn the whole situation broadside without offering any solutions.†   (source)
  • But I could see dismay in her eyes.†   (source)
  • Nobu and I could do nothing but look at each other in dismay at the sight of the Minister lying perfectly still in the deep snow, like a branch that had fallen from a tree.†   (source)
  • Dan was dismayed.†   (source)
  • To the detective superintendent's dismay, the statute of limitations eventually put an end to the matter.†   (source)
  • He rushed back to the street, cursing, dismayed, humiliated, heading for the safety of his cousin's.†   (source)
  • The results of the test, to the dismay of Osprey's sheriff as well as Alvin Dewey, who does not believe in exceptional coincidences, were decisively negative.†   (source)
  • It crashed to the floor and disintegrated, to both Majid's and Nelufar's dismay.†   (source)
  • So it was that the weak and beaten members of the tribe kept what dismay they felt to themselves, for they knew that the cold could bring on a wave of panic followed by cruelty and brutality among people fighting for survival.†   (source)
  • I was stunned and dismayed, but Oliver took a more considered line.†   (source)
  • Darin doesn't look at me, but I feel his dismay.†   (source)
  • …he ward a week or so, the Big Nurse tried to make her play in group meeting; the first time she tried, McMurphy was there at the meeting and he beat her before she got good and started (she started by telling the group that she was shocked and dismayed by the pathetic state the ward had allowed itself to fall into: Look around, for heaven sakes; actual pornography clipped from those smut books and pinned on the walls-she was planning, incidentally, to see to it that the Main Building…†   (source)
  • Tom Geisbert looked at a piece of it under his microscope and, to his dismay, found that it was "incredibly hot—I mean, wall to wall with virus."†   (source)
  • "It's scary," Kay said, but her tone was calm, more disapproving than dismayed, the same voice she might have used to talk about someone's divorce.†   (source)
  • Blackberry, dismayed, turned back to Hazel and Bigwig.†   (source)
  • His voice was gentle, which was enough for me to put together he was talking to the girl, not the guy who had moved on to moaning in dismay.†   (source)
  • Now her face dimpled as she remembered the shriek of dismay Laurella sent after her.†   (source)
  • It would just dismay me if you were really a fan.†   (source)
  • To Ronnie's dismay, Blaze said nothing, and Ronnie wondered about that.†   (source)
  • Rawlins when he saw him seemed too dismayed to speak.†   (source)
  • But now, when I looked in dismay at Allie, who was champing at the bit to get back to her oblivion; when I thought about whether Pennsatucky would be able to keep it together and prove herself the good mom that she aspired to be; when I worried about my many friends at Danbury whose health was crushed by hepatitis and HIV; and when I saw in the visiting room how addiction had torn apart the bonds between mothers and their children, I finally understood the true consequences of my own…†   (source)
  • This time the chorus of dismay was even louder.†   (source)
  • To his dismay, the sight of such a safe, familiar place made him want to cry.†   (source)
  • With growing dismay Alec pointed out more spots of blood along the path.†   (source)
  • Puller looked up at Cole in dismay.†   (source)
  • "You kiddin," said the first man in mock dismay.†   (source)
  • Polly and Digory stared at one another in dismay.†   (source)
  • He smiled at my dismay.†   (source)
  • Her eyes are sweet and her face a schoolgirl trying her best to appear passionately dismayed.†   (source)
  • There were shouts of dismay and disbelief, and John leaped forward to retrieve it before it burned.†   (source)
  • To my dismay, a woman in cargo pants and a University of Michigan sweatshirt jumped out.†   (source)
  • 'To who?' cried Milo, in a voice cracking with dismay.†   (source)
  • Walking through the halls can lead to dismay.†   (source)
  • Melissa sat down on the other side of Meredith, much to Henry's dismay.†   (source)
  • He suddenly felt dismayed at how little he had seen of her the last two years; he had so few opportunities to press her hands in his to stop them from trembling.†   (source)
  • I look at her in dismay.†   (source)
  • Though she regularly sent her parents bank drafts, she'd been dismayed to find no improvements in the house since her last visit.†   (source)
  • I could feel my mouth rounding out the syllables of the numbers, and with some dismay I realized that finally, I had become my mother.†   (source)
  • He replied by expressing dismay at my question.†   (source)
  • He brought up the 1987 will, and much to Jake's delight, and much to the jurors' dismay, he fleshed it out once more.†   (source)
  • Still dismayed.†   (source)
  • The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return.†   (source)
  • Looking, she realized with a quick tug-of-war of delight and dismay, very much at home.†   (source)
  • The questions burned into Jason's imagination as he watched in horror and dismay the scene taking place on the boulevard Lefebvre.†   (source)
  • "You shall do no such thing!" she exclaimed, and I foresaw in her dismay the difficulty I would have with all his clients. if Anys Gowdie, familiar as she was with the face of illness, felt so on the matter, it was unlikely any others would be persuadable.†   (source)
  • Dismayed, Joe said, "I don't want to add to your suffering—"†   (source)
  • "God rest ye merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay," sang everyone except me.†   (source)
  • My old friend Ork sat shaking his head in dismay, saying nothing, brooding, no doubt, on the dark metaphysical implications.†   (source)
  • I asked in dismay.†   (source)
  • I was dismayed by my friend's conclusion.†   (source)
  • To Max's dismay, Cooper stepped out of the elevator after them, dressed all in black and breathing heavily.†   (source)
  • The two flirted that night, much to the dismay of Kennedy's staff, who were immediately concerned the pair would be caught having an affair during the campaign.†   (source)
  • MARTHA (Sham dismay).†   (source)
  • Its overnight transformation into a community of a hundred thousand was part of a pattern of insatiable development that dismayed traditional Californians, who saw more and more of their original landscape bulldozed by developers.†   (source)
  • It had surprised and impressed Commerce that his son had survived that first year, but it also dismayed him that there had been no fundamental change in his son's nature.†   (source)
  • My skin is already covered in small brown spots, much to my grandmother's eternal dismay.†   (source)
  • To my dismay, Beanie, once again, was not there.†   (source)
  • To my dismay, I've arrived in what seems half the usual time.†   (source)
  • And couldn't conceal his dismay at the sight of her.†   (source)
  • Abby passed her to Red, who made a big show of dismay and ineptness but later was caught pressing his nose to her downy head, drawing in a long deep breath of baby smell.†   (source)
  • And dismay.†   (source)
  • But he wasn't overly dismayed.†   (source)
  • She was wearing the size nine-and-a-half fluffy purple slippers I'd given to her for her birthday; I had known when I bought them, little satin heels and feathery wisps like from a boa on the toe, that they were way out of character for her; in this picture with her gray tweed skirt, long gray sweater vest, face frozen in dismay, the contrast was grotesque.†   (source)
  • Ben had suggested that I stay the night with him, but, much to his dismay, I'd declined.†   (source)
  • Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.†   (source)
  • I suppose he noticed my dismay because he began to joke, pay me compliments, and ask me such absurd questions that soon I was laughing too.†   (source)
  • It steadfastly refused, as did the government of France, which had permitted the transfer of the painting to Israel from French soil, much to the dismay of the editorialists and the cultural elite.†   (source)
  • Tyler held up his hands in dismay.†   (source)
  • After this dismaying tour of the boneyard it was three days before I found time for another trip afield.†   (source)
  • Her mother, who regarded her own feet with dismay, looked on Theresa's with horror.†   (source)
  • It is a proof that poetry can be equal to and true at the same time, an example of that completely adequate poetry which the Russian woman sought from Anna Akhmatova and which William Wordsworth produced at a corresponding moment of historical crisis and personal dismay almost exactly two hundred years ago.†   (source)
  • ROS is a little dismayed.†   (source)
  • Randy was dismayed at the thought of Dan, in his condition, loading his stomach with cold bream and catfish, orange juice, and remnants of salad.†   (source)
  • The driver looked dumbfounded and then dismayed.†   (source)
  • The thought of approaching the Supervisor directly filled him with dismay, but there seemed no alternative.†   (source)
  • I was able to wipe the lipstick smear away from my face—a face which to my dismay had the cherry-red, boiled appearance of someone suffering from heat stroke.†   (source)
  • HELEN happens upon her skirt, clutches her leg; KATE in a tired dismay kneels to tidy her hair and soiled pinafore.†   (source)
  • I was dismayed to find the hall filled with boys, each of whom probably wanted one of the few available scholarships as desperately as I did.†   (source)
  • He had always, as I realised with dismay, held fast to that idea of my faithfulness which years before he had seen in my hand.†   (source)
  • He was dismayed.†   (source)
  • Mr. Head was dismayed but he only muttered, "You'll get your fill," and they walked on.†   (source)
  • When the troops arrived nevertheless he did not conceal his dismay.†   (source)
  • She had not even until this moment, she realized with dismay, given Jay's mother a thought; she had been absorbed wholly in Jay.†   (source)
  • Secretly I was glad, for I saw my father in him, although sometimes my husband worried that he showed no inclination for the land; but when one day he told me he was going to work in the tannery I was acutely dismayed.†   (source)
  • MARY With amused dismay.†   (source)
  • To their dismay, at a preliminary Republican caucus, six courageous Republicans indicated that the evidence so far introduced was not in their opinion sufficient to convict Johnson under the Articles of Impeachment.†   (source)
  • "You sure-enough unroll your voice some night, it about reach up yonder to her," says Little Brother, dismayed.†   (source)
  • There had been dismay at the Guild.†   (source)
  • All her restlessness, her vague feelings of inadequacy, centered on him, and when she asked herself, in chilly dismay, why it should be he, rather than any of the other men she knew, there was no satisfactory reply.†   (source)
  • And he stood for a moment, hesitating, helpless with dismay.   (source)
    dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
  • All these things were going on now, and the family was helpless with dismay.   (source)
  • Then they escorted her to the ladder, and Jurgis heard her give an exclamation of dismay.   (source)
  • Seven or eight people were gathered about it when Adams and his friend arrived, and Jurgis saw to his dismay that three of them were ladies.   (source)
  • Jurgis gave vent to a cry of dismay, cut off suddenly by the policeman, who seized him by the collar.   (source)
  • Jurgis and Ona heard these stories with dismay, for there was no telling when their own time might come.   (source)
  • Then let any one imagine their dismay, when, after half an hour, they came in with a lawyer, and heard him greet the agent by his first name!   (source)
  • However, one morning Marija took her usual detour, and, to her horror and dismay, saw a crowd of people in front of the bank, filling the avenue solid for half a block.   (source)
  • Jurgis could be very obstinate when he wanted to, and he was in this case, much to the dismay of the women, who felt that a man-doctor was an impropriety, and that the matter really belonged to them.   (source)
  • And Jurgis gave a cry of dismay.   (source)
  • Jurgis sat dumb with dismay.   (source)
  • Jurgis got home somehow, scarcely able to see for the pain, and with an awful terror in his soul, Elzbieta helped him into bed and bandaged his injured foot with cold water and tried hard not to let him see her dismay; when the rest came home at night she met them outside and told them, and they, too, put on a cheerful face, saying it would only be for a week or two, and that they would pull him through.   (source)
  • she exclaimed in a tone of dismay, as she put her hands up to something very heavy, and fitted tight all round her head.   (source)
    dismay = to feel or cause sadness, worry, or discouragement -- often in response to something surprising
  • The young translator, whom I never saw with you again, tossed his hands up and chuckled with dismay.†   (source)
  • To the Prime Minister's dismay, however, the portrait had proved impossible to remove.†   (source)
  • Henrik was grinning at her, shaking his head in mock dismay.†   (source)
  • The Baudelaires looked at one another and tried to hide their dismay.†   (source)
  • Mariam steadied herself against the waves of dismay passing through her.†   (source)
  • I have borne witness to its decline with dismay and heartbreak.†   (source)
  • To Harry's dismay, Ron's new aggression did not wear off over the next few days.†   (source)
  • To Dorian's dismay, his face became warm.†   (source)
  • To his dismay, Booth and Herold said they did not want to leave until morning!†   (source)
  • There was a lot of dismay out there, and not nearly enough ambulances.†   (source)
  • I felt a wave of dismay travel up from my knees until it reached my face.†   (source)
  • Then, much to the scribe's dismay, he picked up the shirt Chronicler had bought back in Linwood.†   (source)
  • She didn't seem to notice the dismay in my voice.†   (source)
  • A lesser folk might have howled in dismay.†   (source)
  • He was twelve, younger than Jon or Robb, but taller than either, to Jon's vast dismay.†   (source)
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