Although many observers praise or are intrigued by Satin, many find him dismaying. There are a dismaying number of coincidental meetings of characters. Nevertheless, disasters occurred with dismaying frequency. Goebbels did not speak at all, dismaying his fellow northern delegates. Stewart had previously posed nude with a crucifix in Italian "Vogue", dismaying the Vatican. That's the kind of person I find dismaying. The church was in dismaying condition in the 19th century, and was restored until 1864. Would some dismaying scene take place at the faculty party?