consternation

"That kind of behavior caused consternation in some circles.

"Only" 15% of Big 4 accounting firm partners are women and its a source of constant consternation for women.

That's why the White House isn't routinely bugged anymore, much to the consternation of historians.

The guy was bossy, and basically micromanaged us as we packed his purchases into boxes for shipping, much to our consternation.

I would expect them to keep the files for some multiple of the publicly-stated restore deadlineThat would cause significant consternation in some areas.

That's why windows and it's cryptic dialog boxes and Yes/No questions caused so much consternation for all those years, until apple forced them to sort it out and start labelling the buttons with verbs.

Or why did the young Richard Wagner, to the consternation of his parents and teachers, repeatedly play truant from school just to be able to spend whole days concentrating on the orchestral scores of Beethoven's symphonies?

Sun/Oracle's consternation about it's lack of control over Java due to "fragmentation" was even interpreted to support the idea that the aspects of Java that Google copied to develop a compatible system were, in fact, functional.

They may be at the top _now_, but for how long?This growing consternation over income/wealth "inequality" consistently fails to look at the dynamics of those involved, focusing instead on a mere snapshot selected for maximizing political outrage.