Words similar to dismay
Example sentences for: dismay
How can you use “dismay” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
She runs into Tony and his gang at a restaurant and flirts with them, of all things, much to her dismay later, when she repeats to her shrink, played by Peter Bogdanovich, what she said when she waved goodbye: "Toodle-fuckin'-oo?
There have been ups (like the time when we had a mailing service that kept adding new and renewing subscribers' names and addresses without removing the old ones, leading us not only into a state of euphoria contemplating our 20,000 paid subscribers but, at the same time, into near bankruptcy paying the attendent increased printing and postage costs without the expected revenues); and, of course, there have been downs (like falling behind so far in the publishing schedule that we changed the dates of the issues from May, September, December, March to Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring (as in Of Thee I Sing! ), and the dismay and disappointment at the down-marketing of The New Yorker , once a stalwart—if expensive—source of new subscribers, now—still expensive—catering to the pretentious philistine market).
Of course, there are words that are pronounced and stressed exactly alike in both syntactical uses: accord, control, decree, dismay, et al.; but these words appear to be in the minority.
In his voice-over narration, Wilcha is open about his dismay at this fact, and the movie as a whole is embedded in a critique of consumerism that seems ultimately naive.
In this sober, incisive, and riveting book, a well-documented history rather than a novelistic evocation of the man himself, Roudinesco cannot conceal her dismay that Lacan was not better behaved, more temperate in his appetites, less baroque in his provocations.
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