Word: dismaying
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...Army's botched investigation) he seems oily and mean spirited. Even the flashback scenes of MacDonald's purportedly happy marriage are sprinkled with signs of trouble. (When MacDonald invites some friends for Christmas drinks at the last minute, he blithely ignores his wife's understandable dismay...
...with Mrs. Gandhi regularly by telephone, declared, "India has been robbed of a leader of incomparable courage, vision and humanity. For my part, I shall feel greatly the loss of a wise colleague and a personal friend." Pope John Paul II said that her death provoked "universal horror and dismay." In Moscow, which has had consistently friendly relations with Mrs. Gandhi over the years, General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko praised her as "a fiery fighter for peace" and "a great friend of the Soviet Union." U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman was sitting in Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's office...
...right? To the dismay of mainstream economists, much of the evidence so far buoys the supply-side argument...
NASA needed the triumph. To the dismay of space officials, the maiden launch of Discovery had been postponed three times. The original takeoff date of June 25 was put off when a back-up computer refused to answer a command. The next day a fuel valve faltered 4 sec. before blastoff, again delaying the mission. Then, on Aug. 28, the day before the third scheduled launch, a NASA engineer discovered that the computer charged with the last-minute double-checking of equipment might miss some critical signals. Blast-off was deferred for 24 hrs., as computer programmers scrambled to write...
...student, Michael O. Minor '87, expressed characteristic dismay. "Sage's prices are way too high, they're a rip-off. I'm very upset about this, he said...