| Romano Prodi, the commission president, wants candidates by end-February. The signs are that the acceding countries will play it dismayingly safe. |
| The notion that all religions are identical may sound admirably open-minded, but it really is dismayingly parochial. |
| Dr. Bernhard Olson of Yale supervised the Protestant self-study of some 120,000 texts and lesson plans, concluding to a dismayingly high percentage of anti-Jewish and even anti-Semitic material. |
| Knowledge about HIV and AIDS appears to be dismayingly low among Iranian adolescents. |
| In a bitterly divided America, the race of a given voter is still a dismayingly powerful predictor of partisan intentions. |
| All have suggested, some dismayingly recently, that things aren't really so bad in Darfur. |
