Thesaurus / disillusion
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To lie thus in deadly weakness and drink in the traits of the beloved, is to re-awake to love from whatever shock of disillusion.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, VOLUME XXIROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOne can easily imagine the surprise and disillusion of the four pupils of Zimmermann—MM.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSShe did not disillusion him; to do so she would have had to tell him that she had lied.
THE BEACH OF DREAMSH. DE VERE STACPOOLEIn the millennium an educational genius will write a book to be given to every young man on the date of his disillusion.
FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERSF. SCOTT FITZGERALDFor some time the prisoners remained pale, motionless, and speechless, weighed down by this horrible disillusion.
THE FLYING HORSEMANGUSTAVE AIMARDOnly here and there is there the slightest disillusion, and this mainly in the use of some ultra-modern phrase or word.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINELife was there—life that embraced success and failure, illusion and disillusion, birth and death.
ONE MAN IN HIS TIMEELLEN GLASGOWHe doesn't in memory see the eagerness in a good friend's eyes die to disillusion, to hopelessness, to bitter, bitter sorrow.
THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORGUY WETMORE CARRYLNow, on several occasions in the past Percival had met Disillusion face to face in a bathing-suit.
THE HONORABLE PERCIVALALICE HEGAN RICEHowever, the days that she passes with the poet are filled with disenchantment, disillusion, and bitterness.
CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN NOVELISTSSERGE PERSKYWORDS RELATED TO DISILLUSION
- abruptness
- amazement
- astonishment
- astoundment
- attack
- awe
- bewilderment
- bombshell
- consternation
- curiosity
- curveball
- disappointment
- disillusion
- epiphany
- eureka
- eye-opener
- fortune
- godsend
- incredulity
- jolt
- kick
- marvel
- miracle
- miscalculation
- phenomenon
- portent
- precipitance
- precipitation
- precipitousness
- prodigy
- rarity
- revelation
- shock
- start
- stupefaction
- suddenness
- thunderbolt
- unexpected
- unforeseen
- whammy
- wonder
- wonderment
- abruptness
- amazement
- astonishment
- astoundments
- attacks
- awe
- bewilderment
- bombshells
- consternation
- curiosities
- curveballs
- disappointments
- disillusions
- epiphanies
- eurekas
- eye-openers
- fortunes
- godsends
- incredulity
- jolts
- kicks
- marvels
- miracles
- miscalculations
- phenomena
- portents
- precipitances
- precipitations
- precipitousnesses
- prodigies
- rarities
- revelations
- shocks
- starts
- stupefaction
- suddenness
- thunderbolts
- unexpecteds
- unforeseens
- whammies
- wonderment
- wonders
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