disillusionment
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Ms. Korsgaard has her own bouts of disillusionment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
Egan's assessment is that the disillusionment with Labour is now being expressed in a different way.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
In the same way it lost its color and sheen with the passing of the years: creases and stains accumulated, and hidden in the depths, here and there already appearing, waited disillusionment and nausea.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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
Noises of the generation's falling hair and its disillusionments -- is that all there is? -- are muzzing in the American background.
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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