disillusion

But notes of disillusion sound throughout this ostensible success story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Accepting the possibility of disillusion as part of existence allows Amélie to endure sorrow and bask in moments of elation.

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

His face was agog with befuddlement and disillusion.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

He says he hopes to appeal to disillusioned voters.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Also through him, we get to watch as Susan becomes disillusioned with the thing that she idolized the most: the music industry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Many disillusioned Cubans shrugged off the announcements as either too little too late or an outright "lie."

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

“There is a tendency for one to feel disillusioned and even undermined by the other,” astrologer Raymond Merriman said of their birth charts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

Tens and fifties of them were flung into the gunny sacks, and the sacks filled with tired, frightened, and disillusioned frogs, with dripping, whimpering frogs.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

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

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

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

Butler alights on Watergate as a disillusioning American moment, during which “the Method could bring audiences closer than ever to the internal conflicts and pains of living in Nixon’s America.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 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