disenchant

But it is the steps I have taken to immerse myself in culture and fine art that have helped me learn to empathize with subjective experiences — things that inspire and disenchant people.

Chad Sweet, a former chief of staff for homeland security in the George W. Bush administration, said the incident was not likely to disenchant all of his fellow Republicans.

While the others want to disenchant the rest of us, to tear down what they see as a moon mythos, Trainor leans into it.

I think of the ending of Robert Hass’s poem “The Problem of Describing Trees”: “There are limits to saying, / In language, what the tree did. / It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us. / Dance with me dancer. Oh, I will. / Aspens doing something in the wind.”

Episodes like this slowly disenchant Taseer.