How To Use Disillusion In A Sentence

It does not occur to him that we have had half a century of this, and there is a good deal of disillusion with the whole concept of a ‘public sector’ with a higher, nobler ethos than the common herd.
That queasy feeling of disillusionment is a universal one says Schmidt; one that makes this particular play accessible for audiences on a very personal level.
And in this self-regarding, claustrophobic atmosphere, he became disillusioned.
While I marvel at this book's heaviness and complexity, I too am a product of the disillusion climate, and I can't pipe down when I feel I'm being oppressed.
But this light relief could not obliterate the all-pervading sense of crisis, disillusion and frustration in the country.

Like me, he was a disillusioned cynic, enjoyer of beer and a great admirer of a pretty face.
I realize that this line of thought is, perhaps, too confusing and too disillusioning. Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: American Am-ness
Their disillusionment is often due in no small part to the deception and coercion employed by local commanders and combatants.
Kabir is that rare thing: a skeptical, disillusioned poet who nevertheless speaks in a voice of rapture and entrancement. When Mysticism Came Down to Earth
I know that disillusionment is part of the business, but I try not to stay disillusioned for long. Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Role Models
I hate that job, and luckily the manager doesn't know how I disillusion customers so much, otherwise he'd definitely fire me.
So, unbalancing her in one direction are forces of self-disgust and disillusion.
The blogger known as disillusioned and bored expresses my sentiments succinctly enough. B I A G W M T R
I thought that I had removed it when I became disillusioned by the whole process.
For the intellectuals and the urban lower middle class, the new situation was a rude awakening of disillusionment and broken promises.
The authorities must do what is necessary now to avoid the imminent chaos that is the likely derivative of a disillusioned faction of our society - disillusion aided by consistent disregard.
This is a schooling system for consumer cool, soft business, free ownership and disillusioned voters.
My hope is that we will realize that there was a context to our friend's fall and humbly wonder what might happen to us if we ever found ourselves in a sustained slough of disillusionment, despair and spiritual darkness.
Anyway, juries believe anything," said Swanson with the disillusion of a cop who had lost out too many times to the jury system. MURDER SONG
He said that after a series of visits to different parts of the province he was particularly struck by the extent of demotivation and disillusionment among members.
These letters of the romantic tone-poet to a friend and fellow - artist will probably take the reader by surprise, nay, may even disillusionise him. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
Their disillusionment is most likely to come soon. SeeLight:
During his extensive wanderings, he practiced great austerities, but apparently became disillusioned with these methods.
However, the drop in points has not disillusioned the members of the committee.
The theme of"disillusion"in the urban fiction is composed of three levels:li fe, living and being, and includes two narrative structures"linear dev elopm ent" and"transverse apposition".
I am thoroughly disillusioned by the insipidity that is creeping into all aspects of daily life.
Even his key Cabinet ally, the influential business secretary Peter Mandelson, said Brown must show more "razzmatazz," to entice voters disillusioned with his leadership. WBAY Action 2 News
Blanchett, who is a damn good actress and a really pretty one, gets a meaty role on paper, as a disillusioned, pregnant and romantically confused woman.
But Hazel would disillusion him quick enough - since they seem to be such good friends.
I'm not even sure I'd want Greenburg to disillusion her about Curtis. THE SAVING GRACES
The sight of people dimmed, and their voices choked with tears of disillusion, greed, envy and pride
To this day I believe it truly was less disillusionment and more an embrace of sober realism that moved me to change.
Despite this disillusioning experience, there has been hardly any internal dissidence. The Times Literary Supplement
He has deceived and disillusioned us all.
With his resistance to McCarthyism and quantum uncertainty, was Einstein disillusioned at the end?
This state of affairs is very, very sad with many people hurting and, indeed, becoming disillusioned.
Armstrong takes his protest an intriguing step forward with this album by creating a rock opera informed by disaffection and disillusionment.
I hate to disillusion you, but your chances of winning are practically zero.
As the picaro physically travels, he emotionally and intellectually proceeds from innocence to disillusionment; desengaño, of course, is also a sentiment that permeates baroque texts.
He expressed an underlying instability indicative of the gradual disillusionment with the promises of deterministic reasoning.
I could be chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause." like to note my disillusionment with Paulie Walnuts. St. Louis Game Time
It is an urgent call to remain steadfast despite suffering, to repent of complacency and compromise, to move from lukewarmness and the middle of the road to heated commitment, and from disillusionment and despair to confidence and hope.
I told her that I could see her getting bored, cynical, disillusioned and angry if she joined the cops.
Maybe some people disseminate a kind of disillusion just to further just to attract some votes. Democratic Doubts Surround Bahrain Elections
If the participation mode is adopted, the farmers will be kept away from the disappointment or disillusion.
The " Imperial President " was a straw man created by defensive congressmen and by disillusioned liberals.
The university has given me one thing I will forever hold dear though: disillusionment.
“He knows the mindset, the policies, how a Scientologist is conditioned to think and act, and he knows what helped to disillusion him,” says Steven Hassan, a Massachusetts-based cult “exit counselor” who has recruited Gorman to help him with Scientology cases. Anonymous gears up for more Scientology protests
Disillusioned with managing the national team, Andy Beattie chose the most inappropriate moment to tender his resignation.
I would hate to disillusion our friends from that galaxy far, far away, but my impression is that none of those slogans mean anything more than they say, and that in any case, they do not say very much.
There is increasing disillusionment with the government.
The party had 'coquetted' with Afrikaner nationalism in 1920-22 and helped it into power in 1924, 'if only to accelerate the disillusionment of Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 17
So disillusioned and grumpy is he that he writes a local newspaper column on the subject.
So there was no end to this thing, no awakening and disillusioning, none of the disappointment and dreariness which is likely to attend the translating of a dream into work-a-day life. The Good Comrade
Disillusioned with events in the publishing world, he decided to turn his back on the mainstream bookish blatherskites and focus on independent literary fiction and culture.
The leadership of the Muslims was crumbling, the masses disillusioned and disunited.
Many youth today are disillusioned and lack personal vision, which partially explains the drug problem plaguing many western countries.
All three men retell their stories of disillusionment slowly and methodically, taking breaks to compose themselves.
When I’ve spoken to dozens of audiences during the two months since the Democratic National Convention, where I was an elected Obama delegate, there’s been an overwhelmingly positive response when I make a simple statement about Obama and the prospects of an Obama presidency: the best way to avoid becoming disillusioned is to not have illusions in the first place. 29 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq
Also, communism seemed the chic thing to explore, seeing as I was a disillusioned young university student.
Not only does he need to convince a sceptical market, he also has to reach an increasingly disillusioned customer.
And thousands of disillusioned parents have turned their backs on the city.
While a student at Hornsey he took part in sit-ins and demonstrations before becoming disillusioned with student politics.
Other times, circumstances and people can seriously disillusion you.
The truster is at risk of being let down, disillusioned, or betrayed because the truster relies on the trusted.
No wonder there is growing disillusionment with all mainstream parties and politicians across Europe.
The students became disillusioned about the romance of camping once the heavy rains collapsed their tent.
From the bench of bishops to the diplomatic establishment to luvviedom, they express their disillusion.
Criticism can so easily turn into apathy, as disillusioned people become convinced that nothing can be done.
Here disillusioned kids gather to be shaped into useful members of society with a particular talent for messing about on the water.
Perhaps they will turn away in disillusionment, as if such discord mocks all meaning.
This kind of accentuated a growing dissatisfaction and disillusionment with the camp system. Oral History Interview with Igal Roodenko, April 11, 1974. Interview B-0010. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
It is kind of disillusioning to realize that even painterly paintings and other works that are considered entirely novel creations often involved analogous 'tracing' techniques rather than realistic forms just springing onto the canvas from a painter's mind's eye. Archive 2006-08-09
In the Chirton area of Tynemouth, scene of violent riots in 1991 during the prior Conservative government, 77-year-old former shipworker Thomas Grounsell said he would give the Labour government a five-out-of-10 rating for its record since 1997, the kind of disillusion that some political observers believe will persuade traditional Labour voters to stay home Thursday. Swing Seats Hold Key to U.K. Election
But he admits he has quickly become disillusioned with the amateur game after rising from novice to world championship quarter-finalist in a whirlwind 16 months.
People are very disillusioned and frustrated at the way the Government has carried on its business.
But despite enthusiasm and hard work, disappointment and disillusion are the main reward.
I've become very disillusioned with politics.
Glenn refused because he was afraid he might disillusion the boys who took him for a model.
I hate to/I'm sorry to disillusion you, but pregnancy is not always wonderful - I was sick every day for six months.
There was only a faint hardness—or maybe it was tension—in her facial expression attesting to her years of disillusionment. Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder
Bad memories resurface as each character's hidden resentment is revealed, from redundancy to marital rejection and disillusionment with bourgeois values.
Perhaps the campaign disillusioned me: it certainly didn't bring out anyone's best side.
Every year the school spots children disillusioned with traditional study and through college and school interviews identifies those who would thrive doing more work-based learning.
Obviously measures have been taken to rectify the situation, but there is still an impression of disillusion, if not disenchantment.
Her theory is that disillusionment with employment leads to reappraisal of career goals.
It is a proxy, not for globalisation, but for disillusion with the system.
For boredom and disillusionment come easier to those who have everything and more.
Disillusioned by both Stalinism and the conformity of cold war America, he and his wife, Mickey, questioned whether an effective left could be built at all from its quarrelsome subculture of factions.
Did a white-hot surge of anger and disillusion count as a mitigating circumstance, disturbing the balance of the mind?
The power to disillusionise North lay in her hands -- of that she was very sure. Flower of the Dusk
The word was first used by disillusioned American Democrats in the 1970s, when they rebelled against the countercultural leftists who had taken over their party.
Those who live by wishful thinking perish in disillusion. The Uncertain Future
The body can only tolerate a certain level of these toxins before they begin to build up and make us sluggish, lethargic, irritable and disillusioned with life.
Still, he's mired in disillusionment and mourning. 'A Single Man' is singularly superb, thanks to Firth, visuals
And, after all, instead of disillusioning me it deeply attracted me.
He was particularly interested in disillusioned outsiders in conflict with society and the law (albeit motivated more by emotion than logic), and their ensuing violence and pain, both of which were conveyed in a deeply sensuous way through the powerful performances Penn consistently drew from his actors. Arthur Penn obituary
His disillusionment began when he was a surprise omission from the Brisbane test against Australia in November despite some sharp leadup spells.
I don't deny there is a problem with people being disillusioned.
He is old enough to have felt the disillusion of lost causes such as the Spanish Civil War and the left's brief flirtation with Communism.
For once, a summarist almost got it right with the jacket copy:Amidst disillusioned saints hiding in wrestling rings, mothers burnt by glowing halos, and a Baby Nostradamus who sees only blackness, a gang of flower pickers heads off to war, led by a lonely man who cannot help but wet his bed in sadness. The People of Paper
Mary was what you call a disillusioned and disaffected Democrat. CNN Transcript May 31, 2008
Rhapsodic, ironic, elegiac and disillusioned, the urban sketch, for all its sparkle, tended toward melancholy.
And wisdom usually follows illusion, delusion, and disillusion.
I am not at all disillusioned, but I talked about disillusionment in one of my classes this week.
But Wamba, looking on the stirring combat which followed, would shout with an excitement untinged by envy of their distinguished rôles, even untinged by disillusion in the face of the fact that Ivanhoe had revealed to him a few minutes before that he thought the "gramercy" of his speech referred to the park on which he lived. Ivanhoe and the German Measles
Brand quality is fine, but sales are poor and the owner is disillusioned with the plant at Tröllhattan.
Her theory is that disillusionment with employment leads to reappraisal of career goals.
Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz contrasts the American response to its economic crisis with the measures it shoved down the throats of poor countries during their crises, and discusses why rich-world double-standards ( "Buy American/European" provisions in bailouts that only discriminate against poor countries) contribute to a global disillusionment in the values that the rich world nominally espouses: democracy, transparency, and so on. Boing Boing
Second, even if they do, because of the wall of cynicism and disillusion, they don't believe we will achieve them.
When the latest unemployment figures are released on Wednesday, they will almost certainly show that joblessness jumped again in August, with youth unemployment hitting a million, as a fresh crop of disillusioned school-leavers and disappointed graduates trooped down to the jobcentre. Even Mervyn King is losing faith in Osborne
Junior nurses have no backup or support and become disillusioned and leave.
It is possible that Hitler had by 1941 experienced some kind of deconversion or disillusionment with Christianity. The God Delusion
In fact, we found it was all disillusion and discontent.
Negativism a spouse leads to disillusionment over time as love declines.
This state of discontent and disillusionment created a real crisis for the Republic.
In Frazer's case we can, I think, see how this process of disillusionment has come about.
They have won just once and many disillusioned fans are wondering just where the next victory will come.
We will fly for weeks, leaving a message in ribbon-like formation across the sky – Any Disillusioned Human Come On Board. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
It's not going to be easy; it'll be a year of hard work and disillusionment, of sleepless nights and endless days.
Make no mistake: this is the vitriol of a disillusioned fan, not a bemused outsider.
There is widespread disillusionment with the present government.
A certain disillusion is perhaps necessary for the practice of conversation: it is the art of the thriftless genius, appropriate to the brilliant failure, the genius manqué, and the inebriate.
Disillusioned with managing the national team, Andy Beattie chose the most inappropriate moment to tender his resignation.
The students became disillusioned about the romance of camping once the heavy rains collapsed their tent.
I am sorry to disillusionize you, but I don't care a fig for balls and garden-parties and salons. Mr. Crewe's Career — Complete
One disillusioned teacher in the west of Scotland has seen his Sunday morning athletics classes dwindle.
Globalism gratifies the same mental pathologies as Marxism and is therefore perfect for disillusioned intellectuals looking for a new home.
But if we thought we were going to wander whither we pleased we were soon disillusioned.
They are losing faith in democracy, are increasingly disillusioned with the opposition, but at the same time, appear to be more trusting of the government.
At this time he was one of the leading British abstract artists, but by the end of the decade he had become disillusioned with non-representational art and reverted to naturalism.
Kennedy skillfully evokes the atmosphere of an edgy defeated Germany and that of a victorious Britain awash in disappointment and disillusion, but she is at her best when conveying the turmoil inside her protagonist’s mind. Cover to Cover
He asked this so wearily that it twisted my heart to see him so soon disillusioned. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Early on, Zionism was his religion, but he became disillusioned with it over time, coming to identify as a universalist social democrat .. Tony Judt, Historian And Author, Dies At 62
After two decades the decline is stark: opinion polls show profound disillusion with the nation's privatized services and a willingness to spend more tax money to reclaim the system.
What had begun as a highly promising career ended in sadness and disillusionment.
That decade took its toll on Jan and, burned-out and disillusioned by the pop business, he dropped out.
Dazzling, rapid-fire prose and fast, dry dialogue lend tragicomic humour to these tales of individualists who nosedive inevitably into degeneracy, despair, desperation and disillusion.
Thus, the cynical drive toward deconstruction itself can be seen as a narcissistic mechanism that flows from bitter childhood disappointment and traumatic disillusionment.
The first generation of the PC / Internet avatars is getting older and becoming disillusioned with what they've wrought; the Silicon Age, it turns out, is no Golden Age.
And she was gratified to see the people becoming disillusioned with capitalism.
Her theory is that disillusionment with employment leads to reappraisal of career goals.
They had thought that the new colony would be a paradise, but they were soon disillusioned.
Sister Felicity's disillusioned fans would turn on her like avenging Furies. STAGE FRIGHT
We tend, I think, to look upon the advice that we give to young people as something that shall disillusionize them. Craftsmanship in Teaching
Simultaneously, three other dealers left of their own accord, disillusioned with the lack of fresh client coupons.
It is widespread disillusion over such misgovernance that has made him so popular. Times, Sunday Times
Without a leader of Teddy Roosevelt's massive statute, a Bull Moose movement today could never survive as a viable third party, but it could wake up and mobilize a lot of disillusioned Americans. Why We Need a New Bull Moose Movement
During his stints as a Red Guard and a soldier, however, Wei became disillusioned with the one-party socialist ideology.
Acoustic man, living in a simultaneous environment of electric information, is suddenly disillusioned about the ideal of moreness, whether it be more goods or more people or more security or more fame. The End of the Work Ethic
They spoke of the widespread disillusionment with the current government.
The incumbent officials no doubt feel the need to do something to boost their standing in the eyes of union members increasingly disillusioned with the erosion of conditions.
They wandered past the sandwich shop, a raggle-taggle band of urban warriors, uniformed and disaffected, disillusioned, disowned.
The opposing sides in this duologue are represented by two female soprano voices portraying Beauty and Pleasure, and by two male altos, probably super - rather than sub-human castrati, who signify Time and Disillusion.
He soon realised the hopelessness of the cause when he failed to raise any forces among the subdued and disillusioned people.
The actress disillusioned her fans by her sloppy play.
I had not begun to practice, and I was already disillusioned. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
And for any one who with Wordsworth's exquisite sonnet on King's College Chapel in his mind has the misfortune to enter that long tunnel, beplastered with false ornament, the disillusion is unforgettable. Impressions and Comments
I hate to/I'm sorry to disillusion you, but pregnancy is not always wonderful - I was sick every day for six months.
The SNP, they claim, is being punished unduly for the general disillusion with home rule.
In The Line of Beauty, Aids becomes part of a bigger picture and of that arc from naive romance at the beginning to a more disillusioned and even tragic ending.
The opposing sides in this duologue are represented by two female soprano voices portraying Beauty and Pleasure, and by two male altos, probably super - rather than sub-human castrati, who signify Time and Disillusion.
Ende's poignant text reads like a journal of displacement and disillusion.
Malcolm Ainslie is a disillusioned Catholic priest turned unfaithful husband and crack Miami homicide detective.
Disillusioned with the ruthlessly ambitious woman he had married, Richard had long ago turned his back on her.
This disillusionment is the product of disruptive economic change in many areas of rural Australia.
Disillusioned with the politics and antics of politicians, Vijayan ventured into dark corners of history to find subjects for his cartoons.
These entailed not only befogging at the time, but disillusionment thereafter. This Freedom
Juan's picaresque adventures in a wide variety of European contexts see him constantly dealing with disappointment and disillusionment.
Is that wait of an extra couple of months going to disillusion people about this new democracy?
As time passes, and the hour of the train draws near, he begins to reflect vaguely on his project; he recalls the disillusion of the visit he had once paid to Holland. Figures of Several Centuries
People soon became disillusioned with the more hard-edged forms of modernism, and aghast at the overweening urge to control demonstrated by totalitarian regimes from the thirties to the fifties.
Did a white-hot surge of anger and disillusion count as a mitigating circumstance, disturbing the balance of the mind?
But he cannot explain why he did not step down before May 1 despite his disillusionment with the group.
He's a successful, distinguished photographer who has reached the ebb tide of disillusion in his life and career.
With a long term prospective of even greater disillusionment. Is Obama the Drug High America Wants and Needs? Politicapharmacology 101
I hate to/I'm sorry to disillusion you, but pregnancy is not always wonderful - I was sick every day for six months.
Punch and Judy show -- he is judged by the success of his imitation of life, and his own appearance will speedily disillusionize his public. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story
In different ways, they've become disillusioned in respect of romantic love, have the rewards and consolations of religious and mystical experience and feel compelled to act responsibly.
Not only does he need to convince a sceptical market, he also has to reach an increasingly disillusioned customer.
One of Gordon Brown's darker days is marked with the inclusion of "bigotgate", describing the former prime minister's encounter with disillusioned Labour supporter Gillian Duffy in Rochdale in April. Simples! Aleksandr the Meerkat gives the dictionary his word
I'm not even sure I'd want Greenburg to disillusion her about Curtis. THE SAVING GRACES
These conditions often led to disillusionment and cynicism among community members.
This fairly brief experience of worldly ambition seems, however, to have disillusioned him.
Her book is the testimony of a disillusioned woman.
We ordered our tickets, paid an early visit, and had a fairly disillusioning evening.
His experience of the First World War disillusioned him with conventional cultural and moral values.
His vision attracted adventurers, idealists, freeloaders and a few people of practical skills who quickly grew disillusioned with the attempt to create a cashless society.
Redmayne portrayed the young, increasingly disillusioned assistant to Rothko, the abstract expressionist who agonizes over whether to accept a lucrative commission for the Four Seasons restaurant. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » The 2010 Tony Awards Are Handed Out
It is the only continent we haven't yet wrecked, a pristine land left untouched by the frigid armies of disillusion, and a fit setting for playing out high - if harsh - ideals and aspirations.
I've become more grumpy, bitter, disillusioned, and crabby with each advancing birthday.
Disillusioned voters want an alternative to the two main parties.
Most people, even your managers, are people just like you, with fears and insecurities, hopes and dreams, frustrations and disillusionment.
I hate to/I'm sorry to disillusion you, but pregnancy is not always wonderful - I was sick every day for six months.
My personal disillusion was echoed back in grey London where I read numerous grumblings about the Riviera.
His is in many ways (with a nasty pun) a terminal philosophy embracing millennial disillusionment.
It was my disillusionment with the lack of economic opportunities associated with stagflation that politicized me.
Mrs.St. Pierre Lawrence knew enough, at all events, Colville reflected, rather ruefully, to disillusionise a schoolgirl, much more a woman of the world, knowing good and evil. The Last Hope
You mean we communists never suffer from disillusionment ? THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
However hard he tried to impersonate someone who is happy with his lot in life, disillusionment and disappointment punctuated his every sentence.

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