As she grew older, Laura became increasingly disillusioned with politics. From LearnThat.org. [www.ldoceonline.com]
So renewal, not disillusion, is the agenda before us. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario's Role in Confederation] Reference
Those who live by wishful thinking perish in disillusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncertain Future] Reference
We call our disillusion with democracy "politics" and let it go at that. From Wordnik.com. [A Sense of Urgency] Reference
For most of Labour's Mondeo movers, their disillusion has been a considered, long-term process. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The kind of disillusion you describe, is it common?. From Wordnik.com. [Traitor or Truthteller?] Reference
Are you yearning for 'disillusion' just to prove a point. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Maybe some people disseminate a kind of disillusion just to further just to attract some votes. From Wordnik.com. [Democratic Doubts Surround Bahrain Elections] Reference
And though worldly, that notion … suggests the opposite of "disillusion". From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog] Reference
At best, all this would deepen public disillusion. From Wordnik.com. [This Plan Too Slick] Reference
Speaking of disillusion, two can play at that game. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
There would be disillusion with the larger idea of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's New Nutty Money] Reference
She yielded, but her husband's castle completed her disillusion. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
These are the places where, says Zuckerman, "disillusion has spread.". From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Mort Zuckerman Is Not Incompetent] Reference
Now the disillusion and discontent is fueled more by war than the economy. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton Comeback] Reference
But it wasn't only disillusion with stocks that fed the real-estate frenzy. From Wordnik.com. [Home Economics: The Boom In My Own Backyard] Reference
Indecision on the court and disillusion off it haunted him like never before. From Wordnik.com. [Andy Murray ditches coach Miles Maclagan and looks to Darren Cahill] Reference
Malone wondered whether or not to disillusion the man, and decided against it. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
Antislavery zeal "gave way to disillusion, enthusiasm to apathy," writes Temperley. From Wordnik.com. [When Idealists Run Amok] Reference
(Soundbite of music) Ms. LINCOLN: (Singing) Then with disillusion deep in your eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Jazz Singer And Activist Abbey Lincoln] Reference
With that sort of intellectual rigor, what school "reform" promises is more disillusion. From Wordnik.com. [Why School ‘Reform’ Fails] Reference
Hence his disillusion with kibbutz life and, later, the moral basis of the state of Israel. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Judt obituary] Reference
The Democrats 'call for "fair" rather than free trade punctuates the growing sense of disillusion. From Wordnik.com. [Booting Trade] Reference
Hence the disillusion, the feeling of futility that so often poisons the triumphs of practical men. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The deception was mutual, and disillusion only awaited the moment when the material interests of the. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
I'm willing to wager the camp never hears of the fight; it might disillusion them of a fancied power. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
He returned to Cambridge for a year to work on the book and spoke of his disillusion with his alma mater. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Judt obituary] Reference
In this wise she hoped to disillusion him, and it was with this intention she had come forth to meet him. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
To judge from the Japanese press, as well as the DPJ's plunging poll ratings, disillusion has already set in. From Wordnik.com. [Japan can't stay postwar forever] Reference
Whatever happened, it could not be more terrible than to read disgust and disillusion in Vereker Sarle's eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
For my part, I would I might find glowing words to say to whomsoever has lost heart in these times of disillusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
September, when theatrical hopes run high, and the demon of disillusion is not even a cloud as big as a man's hand. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
But amongst the best he would have to set down love, and amongst the worst he would have to set down love's disillusion. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Hot spots are coming off their peak, says analyst Jason Chapman, and are poised to plunge into a "trough of disillusion.". From Wordnik.com. [THE WI-FI BUBBLE] Reference
Inevitably such a book, a record of disillusion and increasing misery, can hardly be cheerful; tales with a purpose seldom are. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14] Reference
In this career man has formulated many ideals, not a small number of which have led him into error, disillusion, and unhappiness. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
A truly adult character in a gleefully adult game, Niko also boasts a surprisingly subversive line in anti-materialist disillusion. From Wordnik.com. [The 10 best video-game characters] Reference
"Rwanda is still a country where people can't speak freely and where there's increasing resentment and increasing disillusion," said. From Wordnik.com. [Kagame Wins Rwandan Election in Landslide] Reference
The subject in itself is too simple for Mascagni's strong dramatic talent, hence the lack of interest, hence the disillusion of so many. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
The other is Gerda, an old woman whose faith in him and his old message is so strong that he cannot quite bring himself to disillusion her. From Wordnik.com. [Faith and doubt in Lapland] Reference
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