disillusion

But notes of disillusion sound throughout this ostensible success story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

“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

He did not want to disappoint or disillusion Tater, the way the real Duke had disillusioned Fred.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

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

A Presbyterian seminarian, Talarico has sought to attract independents and Republicans disillusioned with Trump, arguing that Texans have more in common than the country's increasingly bitter political divisions suggest.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

At some point between music and television, however, he and his then-wife Paula Smith became disillusioned with the church and decided to leave it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Despite rapidly rising through the ranks of London finance, Anderson said he became disillusioned by "greed, reckless risk-taking and rule breaking in the industry".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Meet the men who still love Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency’s power has declined, but it still holds a powerful allure to some people disillusioned with America’s economic system.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026

He was remorseless, disillusioned, logical, predatory, fierce, pitiless—but his great jewel of an eye was that of a stricken deer, large, fearful, sensitive and full of griefs.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

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

The disillusioning experience of working for a legacy institution led her to create her own opportunities.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2022

Dr. Chen described the experience of the last year as traumatic and deeply disillusioning.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 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