How To Use Dismaying In A Sentence
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The final scene was dismayingly lacking in theatrical effect.
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Dismayingly, pedants aren't much interested in this potential.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our leaders are unlucky to hold office when the world has become dismayingly complicated.
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Dismayingly, the same lab is operated by a former partner of plastination pioneer and anatomist Gunther von Hagens of "Body Worlds" fame. von Hagens, the son a former Nazi SS officer, himself has served as a visiting professor at Dalian Medical University, and for some of his international plastination exhibits received from China the corpses of apparently-executed prisoners.
Sound Politics: Something Smells About The Chinese Corpses On Display In Seattle
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Even in places that may appear dismayingly conservative and closed, there are reasons to feel hopeful.
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He foozled five or six shots, including his approach on No. 1 into a greenside swamp, but otherwise placed his drives in the fairways and his approaches on the greens with dismaying accuracy.
Trading Shots With Donald Trump
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For now, given the priorities and futurologists we have, 2050 looks dismayingly like now.
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It's a dismayingly poor piece.
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The downtick in the unemployment rate, to 9.1 percent from 9.2 percent, is also dismaying on closer inspection.
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The final scene was dismayingly lacking in theatrical effect.
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My bird, only passingly beloved, flew away downwind with a dismaying swiftness that was magnificent enough.
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Dismayingly, though, this is still not the case.
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just the word dismayingly really twisted my head. its so obscure really.
L.A. Times Endorses Pugliese Over Lauritzen And Galatzan For LAUSD District 3
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Spending review: relief for museums but Arts Council faces 'dismaying' 30% cut
Letters: Art attacks a threat to civilised society
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This is dismaying news for the cloth-eared, tone-deaf breeders among us.
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However, the most dismaying thing about this development is the lack of outright uproar and outrage, because it seems that yet another once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will end up as a botched job, for the sake of gombeen politics gone mad.
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Tenderness dismayingly cut with acerbities.
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The NDP and the Bloc do not support the deal because of the suggested that the Canada geese that produce a "dismaying" amount of excrement near her second home be culled and fed to the poor.
The Dominion: All Stories
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So it is dismaying to see the Wingfields, in the ill-conceived and clumsy set design you get in David Leveaux's new staging, inhabiting an airy, spa - cious, rather comfortable-looking apartment — something you might find in one of the postwar, white-brick buildings omnipresent on the Upper East Side, with a big, new sofa downstage center around which, alas, Leveaux tends to clump his actors.
Victims on Broadway
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In his report on the text, Sewall called the passage "dismaying" in its flatness and brevity.
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Y'know, after watching Wednesday's RNC festivities, I'm rather annoyed with myself that I titled dismayingly chimpy Dubya notwithstanding, at least Fred Thompson can sometime muster up the ornery menace of an aging silverback.
Ghost in the Machine
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Tenderness dismayingly cut with acerbities.
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That second change was dismaying because it also conferred resistance to another common drug called clindamycin that physicians used when erythromycin did not work.
SUPERBUG
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The conservative commentator George Will has been especially incisive of late about the "dismaying," "un-presidential temperament" of McCain and the sleazy tenor of his campaign.
Carl Bernstein: The Palin Pick -- The Devolution of McCain
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The kids learned about Cohen's criticism -- which chorus director Gregg Breinberg called "dismaying," -- when they returned to New York.
NY Daily News
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This is almost certainly not some deep-dyed plot by the company to rewrite history, but is the product of dismaying ignorance.
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John Hinderaker calls the result "dismaying," arguing that Paul "has no business being taken seriously as a Presidential contender.
Blogometer
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What is dismaying is that the salary bill and the administrative costs go on rising, which means the size of the government continues to be unwieldy.
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What is so maddeningly dismaying is the way the cynical media’s pose of hagiographic respect for the Pope amounts to an ungenerousness to the religion and to the world he leaves behind.
The Television News Brain | PopPolitics.com
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Yet, dismayingly, the Government retracted many of these commitments this week - and the numbers problem festers on.
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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration'
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He finds Obama's position "dismaying" and even quotes British political philosopher Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
James Warren: This Week in Magazines: What's at Stake in the Election, Atlantic's Redesign and The New Yorker's Brainiacs
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As dismaying as the psychotic penchant for very small dogs is, a coming penchant for very small robot dogs will be even worse.
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The final scene was dismayingly lacking in theatrical effect.
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One critic simply dismissed it as 'dismayingly bad'.
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Steeped in disappointment and heartbreaking stupidity, this new play is a dismayingly dim-witted musical.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's kind of dismaying to realize that Bruce Sterling's recommended cyberpunk canon is almost exactly ten years old.
Archive 2006-06-01
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It is dismaying to realize that the best film to come out of America this summer - the only one whose end product justifies its bloated budget, artistic self-indulgence, and general excessiveness - was made over two decades ago.
