We prefer to see it as a disciplined, albeit rare, Democratic effort to register dismay with President Bush's environmental policies.

She doesn't turn to see if he registers dismay at her retreat, but somehow she doubts his expression has changed.

He sat staring at the profile, his face still registering shock and dismay.

When Lurene is ostentatiously nice to Paul at a bus station, a black woman registers similar dismay.

He registered dismay, as he said, "How could such a horrible thing have happened?"

This was a scourge easily illustrated, usually with a picture of a handsome woman registering dismay.

Their faces register dismay when he flicks them out of the air with his sword.

Her face must have registered dismay at having to tell Peter what had happened, for he gave a narrow smile.

The boy looked up at her in what seemed almost certainly an expression registering dismay, chagrin, maybe even fear.

Then as his audience, the good citizens of Covington, Tenn., began to register dismay, he halted.