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Disillusionment
"Disillusionment" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Once you start dating the sleazy old professor, disillusionment sets in.
The aphorism is, how to say it?, the champagne of melancholia; each short statement encapsulates years of disillusionment distilled in a moment of intoxication.
Widespread unemployment and disillusionment about the political process have kept many young people away from the polls in this year's elections.
Tom's disillusionment was obvious.
The war brought disillusionment with it.
There are two things in this war that are causing our disillusionment.
I've decided to not vote anymore due to growing disillusionment with the system.
But till I am thirty, I know that my youth will triumph over everything- every disillusionment, every disgust with life.
I catch on your face the old sad smile / Of our ancient disillusionment, / When the ardent crowd tries to beguile / Your world-old soul to impassionment.
They were self-conscious of their disillusionment and demoralization, and their spokesmen—the artists and journalists among them—publicized their cynicism so successfully that it came to be regarded as the mood of a whole decade.
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'Oh, this fair is nothing but a chaos of noise and beggars,' I thought in disillusionment. 'I wonder if Western scientists, patiently enlarging the realms of knowledge for the practical good of mankind, are not more pleasing to God than these idlers who profess religion but concentrate on alms.'
1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower, First State of the Union Address, Our country has come through a painful period of trial and disillusionment since the victory of 1945. We anticipated a world of peace and cooperation. The calculated pressures of aggressive communism have forced us, instead, to live in a world of turmoil.
It is a very wholesome and regenerating change which a man undergoes when he "comes to himself." […] It is a process of disillusionment. The scales have fallen away.
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