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

There is no solace among them, only a past infected with disillusion.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

And the person they're burying is the disillusioned girl from Stop The Wedding.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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

Nonetheless, he claimed that he had become disillusioned by the rampant corruption, cynicism and brutality of his KGB colleagues and the Soviet system as a whole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The disillusioned Fernanda tried to obtain more precise information, but the unknown correspondents did not answer her letters any more.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Observers also say a guilty verdict could risk disillusioning young Indonesians who want to pursue a career in government.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Most disillusioning of all is the play’s flimsy treatment of class and privilege.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

She found the district’s attempt to do that this summer at the “well-resourced schools” meetings disillusioning.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

It would end, perhaps, with the bitter, disillusioning coda of Oppenheimer’s postwar career, during which he would speak out against nuclear proliferation but never express public regret for the bomb’s Japanese casualties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

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