disillusionment

The first half of Communion, on Vance’s journey from evangelical Christianity to atheism to Catholicism, takes the reader through his disillusionment with the conservative evangelical churches of his youth.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

Despite political disillusionment, Peruvians' main concern is security, as criminal gangs spread and extortion complaints spiked ninefold in five years.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

China in recent years has struggled with youth disillusionment, with millions of college graduates competing for a limited number of desirable white-collar jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

This can fuel disillusionment and loss of trust.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

The Black mustache didn’t end with the disillusionments of the post-civil-rights era.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

The experience provides an allegory for Ned’s life: every pool “reflects” something about his personal and professional disillusionments and dissatisfactions.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2015

It, too, is concerned with the disillusionments wrought by war and adulthood.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2015

Then he went to Europe, where he finished On a Darkling Plain, a novel in which three college buddies encounter the disillusionments of the postwar world.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the first of many disillusionments that were to come as her capacity to feel things grew.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith