disillusionment
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Martin Luther King Jr described America as manifesting a "schizophrenic personality" long before the nationwide disillusionment with the Dream began.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
It’s a novel about disillusionment and the search for identity, but when you revisit it, you also see that it’s very much a love story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
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
A: It's a novel about the relationship between a mother and a daughter, but it's also a novel about disillusionment.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
As the summer of 1904 faded away, disillusionment sat heavy over Packingtown and the Black Belt.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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
To these disillusionments, Dr. Dewey has a hopeful but not a simple answer.
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
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