My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.
It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through...
Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.
Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.
I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.
Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.
I still remember my dismay in the summer of 2007 when - for the first time in the history of planet Earth - America's share of auto production dropped below 50 percent.
As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
