Word: dismayed
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...science professor-are still in jail. Last week I visited their lawyer, a cautious young man named Khalid Farah al-Mutairy, who joined the case because the political scientist had been his mentor. "I was surprised when he decided not to sign the pledge," al-Mutairy said with some dismay...
...science professor--are still in jail. Last week I visited their lawyer, a cautious young man named Khalid Farah al-Mutairy, who joined the case because the political scientist had been his mentor. "I was surprised when he decided not to sign the pledge," al-Mutairy said with some dismay...
Much to my dismay, all my friends from high school seemed to have adapted effortlessly to their new university settings and were already busy having the times of their lives. Many of them sent out links to online photo albums, vivid testaments to the parties they’d crashed, the circles of friends they’d adopted. Guided by the picture captions, I experienced vicariously the thrills of their new lives: “Laur, Rach, and me~4th floor love!”— “Me, Laur, Brit, and the group?...
...State Condoleezza Rice put forth the idea that Iran now faces a united front of the U.S. and Europe pressing for an end to its uranium enrichment activities. But Dr. Rice may be mistaking the general desire of the Europeans to mend fences with Washington, and their general dismay at the idea of Iran emerging as a nuclear state, as support for the Bush administration's approach to dealing with the problem. That would be wishful thinking, although hardly the first time the Bush administration had been guilty of such miscalculation over matters Middle Eastern. Rice's upbeat assessment requires...
...only black family in our gated community, and I was one of only a few black students in most of my high school classes. My life has been a compromise of cultures that didn’t always mesh well. Jamaican culture, sometimes to my parents’ dismay, has not always won the fight. I don’t know how to cook the meals that remind me of home. I like to shop more than I like to do most things. And when I go to Jamaica my younger cousins mock my American “twang...