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But, he told a dismayed Combs, who twice tilted his head up and sighed, there was light at the end of his jail sentence.

“If we don’t feel comfortable using certain guys with an eight-run lead, then we’ve got to think through some things,” said a dismayed Roberts.

"I'm angry and dismayed because money allocated for flood control projects in our province went to waste, to people who used it for their personal gain," he says.

Some of the friends who helped McGee on the night of his overdose grew distant for a time, too dismayed over the turmoil he was causing himself and those around him.

Increasingly dismayed, Dudek hatched a plan that seemed to embody his mix of good intentions, hubris and melodrama.