How To Use Disillusioned In A Sentence

And in this self-regarding, claustrophobic atmosphere, he became disillusioned.
Like me, he was a disillusioned cynic, enjoyer of beer and a great admirer of a pretty face.
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
The blogger known as disillusioned and bored expresses my sentiments succinctly enough. B I A G W M T R

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I thought that I had removed it when I became disillusioned by the whole process.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I told her that I could see her getting bored, cynical, disillusioned and angry if she joined the cops.
The " Imperial President " was a straw man created by defensive congressmen and by disillusioned liberals.
Disillusioned with managing the national team, Andy Beattie chose the most inappropriate moment to tender his resignation.
So disillusioned and grumpy is he that he writes a local newspaper column on the subject.
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.
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.
The truster is at risk of being let down, disillusioned, or betrayed because the truster relies on the trusted.
The students became disillusioned about the romance of camping once the heavy rains collapsed their tent.
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.
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.
I've become very disillusioned with politics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I don't deny there is a problem with people being disillusioned.
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.
I am not at all disillusioned, but I talked about disillusionment in one of my classes this week.
Brand quality is fine, but sales are poor and the owner is disillusioned with the plant at Tröllhattan.
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.
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
Make no mistake: this is the vitriol of a disillusioned fan, not a bemused outsider.
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.
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.
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
That decade took its toll on Jan and, burned-out and disillusioned by the pop business, he dropped out.
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.
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
Simultaneously, three other dealers left of their own accord, disillusioned with the lack of fresh client coupons.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Disillusioned with the politics and antics of politicians, Vijayan ventured into dark corners of history to find subjects for his cartoons.
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.
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
This fairly brief experience of worldly ambition seems, however, to have disillusioned him.
Her book is the testimony of a disillusioned woman.
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
I've become more grumpy, bitter, disillusioned, and crabby with each advancing birthday.
Disillusioned voters want an alternative to the two main parties.
In the role of the empress, she portrays the transformation from loving-hearted girl to bitterly disillusioned woman.
Initially the government tried to dismiss the protesters as frustrated wannabe politicians and disillusioned youngsters who did not understand the complexity of the situation.
Soon disillusioned by the lot of the common soldier, he deserted and returned home; his youth saving him from military punishment.
It's time to reach out to the increasing number of disenfranchised and disillusioned Americans.
They have decades of experience and aren't shocked easily but they are becoming more and more disillusioned with present day Ireland.
In Berlin, Rejean becomes disillusioned by the commercialization of the Wall's collapse and suffers a breakdown.
The more disillusioned they became, the less rancor they felt about the present day - which may help to explain the film's middling box-office career.
Many people are disillusioned with the reformists ' conciliatory approach.
People will become deskilled, grow disillusioned and move away.
Letters from disillusioned and disgruntled fans were answered, phone calls returned.
The " Imperial President " was a straw man created by defensive congressmen and by disillusioned liberals.
His book is the testimony of a disillusioned man who turns with some bitterness on his former colleagues.
Japanese college students in particular are disillusioned by the restrictions placed on them by society.
Disillusioned, Grace physically harms herself to override the emotional pain from inside.
Postmodernists are disillusioned with this triumphalist view of science dispelling ignorance and making the world a better place.
Many common people are very disillusioned with the present government.
Over the past year I have found myself increasingly disillusioned by feminism and more inclined towards my socialist beliefs.
In 1975 I became disillusioned with Marxism and became an anarchist (thanks to Kuwasi Balagoon) due to the inactiveness and ineffectiveness of Marxism in our communities along with repressive bureaucracy that comes with Marxism. Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends
What are you going to do to get disillusioned voters back?
If the king had hoped for peace, he was to be sadly disillusioned.
And politicians have the impertinence, not to mention the brass neck, to continue to wonder why the public is disillusioned with them.
They felt bitter and disillusioned by the decision.
Many people are disillusioned with the reformists' conciliatory approach.
This time last year, Bevy was throwing me a party in her Marpole penthouse, I hadn't moved home yet, I was lonely, disillusioned, depressed, purposeless, empty, angry, and unfulfilled.
Yet so disillusioned was he with the direction of the side under John Hart that he announced his intention to retire at the end of the season.
After growing disillusioned with the meaninglessness of being a financial analyst, Vacanti dropped out to start his own company.
Because of this he often failed to bring about cures and eventually became disillusioned with hypnosis as a form of therapy.
When this area of our life is threatened we become fearful and disillusioned.
All this political inexperience adds up to disillusioned populations, according to Leon.
He romanticized the past as he became disillusioned with his present.
Disillusioned and discouraged, there was nothing to do, but stay in France and hope for another battle of Crécy or Poieters to come his way, and with it, a chance to capture a French noble for ransom.
The real question is how on earth they have got so many busy and placid people so utterly disillusioned with the political process that they are marching in columns thousands deep through the streets of the capital.
Though shattered and disillusioned, he held onto his dream of getting away from ordinary life in order to pursue prayer and contemplation.
It is distressingly easy to become disillusioned and cynical while working on a development aid project.
Disillusioned dairy farmers in Yorkshire could soon be turning cowboys and switching their flat caps for Stetsons if they take up an offer to relocate to South Dakota.
During The Shadows tired and disillusioned Exploration Team leader Barrier finds the remnants of a race destroyed by astrological catastrophe, and their faithful doglike servants. Archive 2010-01-01
Or has this seemingly complicated young man simply become disillusioned and lost interest?
I am not one of those disillusioned students, but I do have a few complaints.
I pose a loaded question: Is he disillusioned that the industry has become more about pitches and trailers than the film itself?
Cornelius Tacitus, best known for his grimly disillusioned history of Rome's wicked emperors, was also the author of a short ethnographic treatise on the German tribes, known as the Germania. Slate Magazine
Confused and disillusioned, he searches for truth and rails against the "phoniness" of the adult world. WN.com - Articles related to What does youth do online
If the king had hoped for peace, he was to be sadly disillusioned.
All the other teachers are thoroughly disillusioned with their colleague.
There Was an Ancient House presents a disillusioned view of life in a Jesuit novitiate.
Not only does he need to convince a sceptical market, he also has to reach an increasingly disillusioned customer.
His father, worn out, disillusioned, had been scribbling in order not to believe in the power of evil. SEA MUSIC
If he was disillusioned, Walsh said, it was because so few share his belief that sportswriters are not engaging in real battles.
I left the pastorate nearly two decades ago, broken and disillusioned. Steve McSwain: Are We 'Nones' Becoming A Virtual Congregation?
My poor sister had long been disillusioned before death released her from the titled scamp she had married, and she very wisely placed the emeralds in my custody to be held in trust for her daughter. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
For the unconverted and the disillusioned, fear not!
Doubtless, she'd be pretty disillusioned if she could she Dellaqua or his strangely alienated and maladjusted crew face-to-face. THE SAVAGE GIRL
But when he became disillusioned with what he saw on the inside of the old party politicking he dropped out to support independents.
It has grown into a nationwide insurrection by disillusioned suburban youths.
The fact the general voted for Obama is not quite so surprising to me - nor the fact that he may be disillusioned now after having dealt with him in his official capacity as C-in-C. Loose lips: the McChrystal article
Mikel was disillusioned enough to realise that his place beside Cratyn was earnt through distrust, not honour. TREASON KEEP
He said he was disappointed and disillusioned by the treatment of asylum seekers in Britain.
But if the Conservative Party thought that it was cornering the market in citizenship, they were to be quickly disillusioned.
He's very disillusioned with the present government.
Those players left disillusioned by summer after summer of defeats were given a reason to give it one more shot.
If our athletes feel disillusioned from the outset how on earth are they going to beat their peers when they step up to the blocks at the Olympics?
Her piece then devolves into a long remembrance of her history, that of a working class girl who became disillusioned with her chosen party because it ceased to care.
Her book is the testimony of a disillusioned woman.
Sadly for our generation, people like Randall, Zach, Miri and even Jay and Silent Bob exist- they are the sluggish majority, occupying scuzzy McJobs, and so disillusioned that they fail to even bat an eyelid when someone offers them a chance to redeem themselves, unless it is a chokingly quick rise to soluble fame at the hands of Simon Cowell. Eulogising Miramax | Obsessed With Film
I gradually got rather disillusioned with the whole setup of the university.
He romanticized the past as he became disillusioned with his present.
Children begin secondary school with high expectations of science, but become disillusioned and uninterested, especially in physics.
Though he got excited at each new development in his investigations, he soon became disillusioned again.
They're disillusioned at his "isms" -- his centrism, pragmatism, incrementalism, and institutionalism. John McQuaid: Is Obama a "Narcissist"?
Malcolm Ainslie is a disillusioned Catholic priest turned unfaithful husband and crack Miami homicide detective.
Disillusioned and sickened, Balashov achieves salvation by joining the Skoptsy, an obscure religious sect that existed until only a few decades ago.
It is obvious to us that this breakaway is not in the interest of the poor or the working people ... it is in the interest of the so-called disillusioned and disgruntled ANC members," said Mantashe. ANC Daily News Briefing
Looks like another group of disillusioned left wing loonies is really disappointed with Obama as they "all expected more from the Obama administration" .... Western Wolves Officially Delisted, Again, For Now
Two independents had thrown their hat into the East Ward election ring in an effort to offer disillusioned constituents in the ward a chance to vote apolitically.
The poem chronicles the adventures of a disillusioned pleasure-seeker who tries to find meaning through a series of travels. Times, Sunday Times
All the other teachers are thoroughly disillusioned with their colleague.
It's easy to see why as it covers familiar territory of a disillusioned white man seeking redemption in his respect and defence of an alien culture.
“Delusional, disillusioned, detoured — I couldn't put my finger on it.” On Deadline
Glaswegian writer James Kelman gave voice to the oppressed, dispossessed, disillusioned working class, portraying characters such as Robert Hines in Bus Conductor Hines, Sammy Samuels in How Late it Was, How Late or the hundreds of characters in his short stories spending their existences on the broo or just talking in the pub.
They feel angry and disappointed; not apathetically angry and disillusioned, but productively outraged and disgruntled. Reshma Saujani: The Participatory Revolution
With the disillusioned introspection of advancing years, the portraits, in his studio garb of coif and scarf, are almost self-mocking.
In Germany, opinion polls have indicated that traditional voters are profoundly disillusioned with the Party and are deserting it in droves.
Alpha Centauri or Die shows a Solar System government either disillusioned with interstellar travel, or perhaps having more jackboot clad reasons. Archive 2010-01-01
Her union was the one that disillusioned me completely about marriage.
My guess is he's still disillusioned and reeling after yesterday's events.
This immediately precipitated resumption of the civil war with disillusioned southern forces now certain that the north had no intention of constructing a secular democratic state.
And last of all he appears as the disappointed, disillusioned man, "infelix academicus ignotus. John Lyly
What we get at the other end is a drunk, disillusioned rock star (in fact and fiction) who drinks far too much and seems sunk in a permanent mire of melancholy.
He returned home disillusioned, but determined that he would never lose another race under any circumstances.
Disillusioned, we go off on our own and cultivate a pure spirituality uncontaminated by religious hucksters and hypocrites.
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
He's very disillusioned with the present government.
Italians, once among the most enthusiastic supporters of a united Europe, are becoming increasingly disillusioned, so much so that some are suggesting that Italy dump the euro and bring back the lira.
That the drama commences with eccentric characters and their disloyal proclivities causes the viewer to be disillusioned with the whole idea of relationships.
It is gonna be a riot the next 4 years watching all of the dissapointment from the disillusioned like yourself and her. Exclusive Video: Is This the Walking Record Whitetail?
It turned out to be a cosy place for the disillusioned - somewhere to take refuge until a new Lenin comes along.
Gray worked for him in the early months of his campaign for some time, then became disillusioned, freaked out and joined another party.
Distinguished but disillusioned, Lawrence was demobilized as a lieutenant colonel in 1919.
The angry young man had turned into a disillusioned old man living on libidinous memories.
One dissatisfied customer leads to many disillusioned persons who will never come into your store.
Of course, my generation did eventually return to the city - disillusioned with communes and free love.
The level of acrimony is so widespread and acute that it's impossible to dismiss those involved as disgruntled former employees, disillusioned leftists or self-seeking turncoats.
Many people who are disillusioned in reality assimilate life to a dream.
The danger is people listening to the moaning of disillusioned hacks and venerating a chocolate-box version of the past instead of seeking out new music.
Jean withdrew from the houselling cloth, wondering to be just the same as ever and already disillusioned. The Aspirations of Jean Servien
She's disillusioned with life in general.
He was soon disillusioned by the government's timidity on social reform.
Upbeat sentiment returned to the market only after the protest turned out to be a bluff, driven by politicians disillusioned with the poor showings of their parties in the election.
He had both the subtle mind of the metaphysician and the penetrating insight of the disillusioned moralist.
It's hard to give much credence to Zuckerman's claims that these groups are "disillusioned" and have "lost confidence," since there's no evidence they had illusions or confidence about Obama in the first place. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Mort Zuckerman Is Not Incompetent
Simultaneously elated and disillusioned, that is, we may be in a position to pursue our daily activities of teaching and writing as fundamentally "open" in their implications. Bringing About the Past

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