“Marianne sat on the edge of the bed, torn between dismay at learning that he was distressed and pleasure that he had written.”

“She did her best to hide her dismay. Yet she'd known this conversation was bound to come up sooner rather than later.”

“She feels little dismay at missing out on issues of national or local import, knowing that if things are important enough, people in her workplace will discuss them.”

“Before that persistent low-spirit sensation totally takes over, here are a few ideas to put up a barricade against the dismalness.”

“Its dismalness is largely a delusion, due to the fact that its chief ornaments, at least in our own day, are university professors.”

“When confronted with an empty tomb in our lives, do we look at the hopefulness of the situation or do we look at the dismalness of the situation?”