disillusionment

"Then now... there's sort of a level of disillusionment."

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

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 dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

My life was littered with awkwardnesses, estrangements, mutual disillusionments, abandoned projects.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2016

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

Then he went to Europe, where he finished On a Darkling Plain, a novel in which three college buddies encounter the disillusionments of the postwar world.

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