Word: dismayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recovered-memory therapists might do well to heed those guidelines before they cause irreparable damage to their profession. For, as the public begins to recognize that people have been falsely accused by recovered-memory patients, says psychiatrist McHugh, it "opens us up to skepticism and dismay about our capacity to do things. This is a bubble that is going to burst. We will end up having to re-create the trust this country puts in psychotherapy...
Hall and Stillman discovered this, to their dismay, in the glare of publicity. At an impromptu press conference the evening the story broke, and in subsequent appearances on Nightline, Good Morning America and Larry King Live, the bewildered scientists tried to keep the discussion focused on the facts of their experiment: that the embryos were defective, that they were never implanted, and that they could never have grown into living humans. Instead they had to field questions from callers like the one who wondered if their technique could be used to put a lion's head on a horse...
...jolt of national dismay and disappointment over Jordan's retirement might seem wildly inappropriate to those indifferent to the game. (The White House even issued a sentimental statement in the President's name: "We may never see his like again.") But in fact, the response is in proportion to the disproportionate reverence with which athletes are treated in America. Jordan himself seems to acknowledge this. In the end, he did not so much seem to be tired of playing basketball as he seemed tired of being Michael Jordan...
...million is quite a bit of money. When the Charlotte Hornets recently announced that it was willing to stake this not insubstantial chunk of change on one Larry Johnson's ability to put an orange orb through a hoop, I, like many others, shook my head in dismay. After all, I've seen dogs who have been trained to do the same trick with their snouts, and their contracts only call for the occasional extra can of Alpo. And this Larry Johnson fellow, isn't he best known for dressing up as his own grandmother to somehow prove the superiority...
...destroy the Jewish faith unless it penetrates an almost unreachable demographic sector--the Hasidim. This sect maintains a stringent brand of Judaism that has changed little in the last two and a half centuries. Even a prospective non-Jewish spouse who opted to convert would be looked on with dismay by this completely isolated group...