Word: dismaying
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...There was visible delight as they extended chords with mastubatory strumming patterns, letting the audience feel every change in the music. The band’s set followed closely the track ordering off their new album with no frills or deviations to the tracks, and, to the surprise and dismay of many, but with my respect, no encores. The Strokes ripped through the set of pop-punk delights including crowd favorites “Last Nite,” “Someday” and “Hard to Explain.” To describe the music...
...inevitably part of the picture. And it isn't restricted to the illiterate and the destitute, those most susceptible to the pull of extremism. Even the sons of some wealthy businessmen are growing beards and joining the jihad against India over the disputed territory of Kashmir, often to the dismay of their secular-leaning families. Others sign up for local wars: more than 100 Pakistanis have been killed in sectarian attacks since the beginning of this year. In recent months, minority Shia professionals, especially doctors, have been targeted for assassination. Doctors are among the best educated and most successful Shia...
...started experimenting with chemical warfare, perhaps even testing a device. Then, in 1995, a truck bombing of a military base in Riyadh killed five Americans and two Indians. Linking bin Laden to the attack, the U.S.--along with the Saudis--pressured the Sudanese to expel him. To his dismay, they...
...Pakistani in his mid-20s, Abu Zaid (his nom de guerre), gave up a chance to study medicine in the U.S. to the dismay of his parents. Instead, he enrolled in an Islamic militant training camp in the mountains northeast of Islamabad. There he learned how to handle a gun and explosives instead of a stethoscope. "We are not fanatics," he insists in a soft, earnest voice, "but we believe it's better to sacrifice ourselves than live in an unjust world." But where is the justice in indiscriminately killing thousands of office workers, firefighters and airline passengers - Christians, Jews...
Tucked inside the shock and fury was dismay at the performance of others whose job--perhaps impossible--was to prevent this from happening. There were quiet calls for the heads of CIA chief Tenet and FAA boss Jane Garvey for allowing so appalling a breach of security on their watch. And there was an equal determination to find those who were behind...