disillusionment
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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
Egan's assessment is that the disillusionment with Labour is now being expressed in a different way.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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
Criticism and care aren’t always easy to tell apart, and disillusionment and patriotism aren’t opposites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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
He wants his fellow citizens -- and his comrades -- at last to absorb this trinity of disillusionments and reconcile themselves into a whole and modern society.
From Time Magazine Archive
It too now seems convincing to many archaeologists, but caution is warranted in view of all the previous disillusionments.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing disillusionment
Siddhartha
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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"Marionettes, Inc." by Ray Bradbury
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