Word: dismay
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...think that the letter is very respectful and expresses our dismay and surprise. All we're asking for is an explanation and information," said Alice A. Jardine, chair of the Committee on Women's Studies and professor of romance languages and literatures. She is a member of the group that drafted the letter...
People there pop pills to raise their depressed spirits. They cover their paranoia with clenched-jaw politesse. They don't quite understand Martin's dismay when he discovers that his boyhood home has been replaced by a convenience store--where the clerk gets so lost in a noisy video game that he fails to notice a real-life gun battle breaking out in his aisles. Therein lies this movie's fundamental irony: anarchy may bloom from Martin's gun barrel, but unlike his old pals, he is not in denial about it. He is still trying to nurture the shoots...
...Students dismay at the current representation of women and minorities in our Faculty and our curriculum...
...Verba Report, released to the dismay of students six weeks ago, is an unacceptable blueprint for change. It serves only to reinforce the present Core structure--itself a rigid contraption of ambiguous and dated categories of thought--by adding a quantitative reasoning requirement...
Some Faculty members also expressed dismay that Core classes are large and students rarely interact with their professors...