(n.) Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of the hardware complications were managed without undue difficulty, and although they were a source of consternation to the surgeon, they did not affect the patients adversely.
(2) Although he said he wished ITV “well”, Edwards’ accusation of “creative handling of audience figures” caused particular consternation at the commercial channel.
(3) He is like a Sir Bobby Charlton and Denis Law who I remember watching – the whole club here is a legend.” Martino was certainly correct when he said during the build up – probably to the consternation of the promoter – that there was no way the match would have any bearing on this year’s Ballon d’Or.
(4) Tsipras, who made an official visit to Moscow in April to discuss the project, has made improved ties with the fellow Orthodox state a central plank of his two-party coalition’s foreign policy – much to the consternation of the EU.
(5) Gove's comments are likely to cause consternation in Germany, where politicians are keen to stress the lessons learned from two world wars and the role that European integration has played in promoting peace.
(6) To the consternation of some of Pakistan’s European donors the country abandoned an informal moratorium on the death penalty and has so far executed more than 300 death row prisoners.
(7) The proposed implementation of a similar system in Australia, also called Cleanfeed, has caused consternation among civil rights campaigners.
(8) For these reasons, I am voting to remain.” Beckham’s defence of the EU might once have caused consternation over the family breakfast table.
(9) After complaining about the way black flood victims were portrayed in the media, West finished up by saying: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” Co-presenter Mike Myers , who tried to stay on-script, looked suitably consternated as the camera cut away.
(10) Akinfeev's punt upfield caused consternation in a City defence that never seems the same when Vincent Kompany, still sidelined with a thigh injury , is absent.
(11) Grief, consternation about the loss of attractivity and disfigurement of the body could be found in 50 of them.
(12) Trump’s decision to hold a protocol-trampling conversation with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen last Friday and his subsequent Twitter attacks on China have caused consternation in Beijing .
(13) Green measures took up only a few minutes of the chancellor's hour-long budget speech, and though some green groups were pleased that Osborne was not openly scornful of environmental protections – his rhetoric in previous speeches has been severe, slamming environmental regulations as a "burden" on business - there was consternation at some of his pledges, including airport expansion in south-east England and new roads.
(14) Under Mitchell, DfID announced an overhaul of the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), the UK's development finance arm, appointing a new chief executive on a salary significantly lower than that of her predecessor , whose generous package caused consternation.
(15) Alexakis reeled off the myriad austerity measures that have been driven, often to widespread consternation from MPs, through the Greek parliament.
(16) It’s the culmination of a long and illuminating day spent with Davey, who to general surprise (and some consternation among those who thought he was ill-qualified) took over as Radio 3 controller earlier this year, having previously been chief executive of Arts Council England .
(17) Causing some consternation locally is the new Aam Aadmi (common man) party, which is challenging many of the fundamental principles of Indian politics .
(18) Such clear evidence of rigging is likely to cause consternation in western capitals, from where there is strong pressure on President Hosni Mubarak to embrace some democratisation.
(19) The most detail we have had so far comes from Wikileaks, which leaked chapters on intellectual property proposals that have caused consternation online.
(20) Mocking the consternation among progressives, a conservative film reviewer at Rupert Murdoch's New York Post agreed: Zero Dark Thirty is, he wrote, "a clear vindication for the Bush administration's view of the war on terror" that "subtly presents President Obama and by extension the entire Democratic establishment and its supporters in the media as hindering the effort to find Bin Laden by politicising harsh interrogation techniques".
Epilogue
Definition:
(n.) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
(n.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government has carefully rolled the political pitch for next week's cuts announcement, assisted by Liam Byrne's bizarre "no money left " epilogue on his own time at the Treasury.
(2) Lorraine's life story reads like the harrowing epilogue to one of Dunbar's plays.
(3) With the film going on general release, the restorers have appended a short video introduction and epilogue that outline the issues involved.
(4) Some of the interiors of this house were meticulously reconstructed for the film's final scene, an epilogue that Dreyer added to the play.
(5) It is not hard to imagine his staunchest critics making advance orders, although fairly certain that they will be disappointed by the time they reach the epilogue.
(6) The Epilogue of this paper examines why important parts of Wertheimer's experimental contributions to psychology may have been underrated or neglected by many contemporary psychologists.
(7) It’s about keeping businesses going rather than having a start-up, some soft grants then within six months everything’s gone.” I tell Mone that her women-can-do-anything epilogue reminded me of Nicola Sturgeon’s rousing speech in the Scottish parliament when she was elected the first female first minister last November (although the epilogue, and indeed the entire book, is rather more sweary than the Holyrood debating chamber is used to).
(8) Novelists don't write epilogues saying "please give me money".
(9) Thomas Dekker groused that “the scene after the Epilogue hath been more blacke – a nasty bawdy jigge – than the most horrid scene in the play was”.
(10) Epilogue Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ahn celebrates his goal, but nothing would ever be this good again for South Korea's matchwinner.
(11) His widow, Annie, confirms in the epilogue, dated St Valentine's Day 1997, that he meant it.
(12) A crisis was inevitable, and last Friday it arrived , an unsurprising epilogue to a job estimated as being 12 times more deadly than being a US soldier at the height of the Iraq war : 16 people, of whom 13 were Sherpas, were killed in an avalanche as they readied the slopes for the summit window in May.
(13) It was a heartbreaking epilogue to 2014 for Pakistani children, who have seen about 1,000 schools closed by the Taliban in recent years.
(14) This is followed by the author's closing remarks for the last session of the mini-course, an Epilogue.
(15) An epilogue After my story was published, the Consumers Union wrote a letter to the editor strongly disagreeing with its conclusions.
(16) In the epilogue some remarks are made on the possibilities of introduction of the opting out system in countries now applying opting in.
(17) On the contrary, in the case shown by the authors, the subacute epilogue occurred in the perimenopausal phase: a very large colpohematometra is reported in a 49 years old woman, with an incomplete vaginal septum resulting in progressive obstruction.
(18) ON THE NEXT ... Epilogue segment, purportedly sharing clips of the next instalment, but in reality showing non-sequiturs and sight gags.
(19) I’m not surprised.” In the New York Times, Kakutani dismissed the biography as “a dreary slog of a read: a bloated, tedious and – given its highly intemperate epilogue – ill-considered book that is in desperate need of editing, and way more exhausting than exhaustive.” A spokesman for Obama declined to comment.
(20) Similarly, I allowed my Handmaid a possible escape, via Maine and Canada; and I also permitted an epilogue, from the perspective of which both the Handmaid and the world she lived in have receded into history.