disillusion

Lewis and Tolkien were disgusted by this atmosphere of disillusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

“Amélie believes she is Japanese until she has this disillusion, and it’s always hard when you’re coming from both cultures,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

In stark contrast with the album’s bombastic, top-10 title track, the early version of “Born in the USA” featured on “Nebraska ’82” oozes with the pain, heartbreak and disillusion inherent in the song’s lyrics.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

Put them all together and there is a disillusion and a widespread sense among farmers of not being listened to.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024

His face was agog with befuddlement and disillusion.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Coaches across the City said that the lack of care is another sign of a lack of support that disillusions prospective parents, which leads to enrollment somewhere else.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2023

One key strength of this exhibition, curated by Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker, is that it disillusions Tudor hagiography without making them seem uniquely brutal or awful.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

“What if that disillusions a lot of really bright, passionate, smart people from the industry?”

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2021

The rise of the “Beast-Elect” so disillusions her that she quits her job and breaks for the California badlands, where her friend’s teen-age daughter, Arabella, has gone missing.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2018

It is possible that I was mistaken and I do not willfully invite any disillusions at this point in my life.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

As the area struggles, Murillo, a college graduate who years ago felt motivated enough to door-knock for political causes, is among those who have become disillusioned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Those unsatisfying wars weren’t the only reasons Americans grew more disillusioned as the years unfolded, of course.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The naming and shaming underscores the Chinese government’s desire to stem economic disruption as many young people grow disillusioned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Little ditty ’bout millions of Americans growing old — and disillusioned — in the heartland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

In the Archuleta house candles always flickered, and santos—some made from cornhusks, a number fashioned by Ruby herself, and still others carved by that disillusioned expatriot Snuffy Ledoux—lined the walls.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

She added it was "disillusioning and disappointing that South Wales Police and the CPS demonstrated a lack of understanding" to what she said were the "unique stresses" of transitioning.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025

Most disillusioning of all is the play’s flimsy treatment of class and privilege.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

She found the district’s attempt to do that this summer at the “well-resourced schools” meetings disillusioning.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

The exhibition is as disillusioning about any reflexive association of the Renaissance with pervasive humanism as it is about the Tudors themselves.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

In light of the bold and defiant line we had taken all along, an appeal would seem anticli- mactic and even disillusioning.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela