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  • His initial anticipation of somehow being able to fight the dismissal gave way to sudden disillusionment.†   (source)
  • In Boston not long ago, a disillusioned young investment banker had signed over his entire life savings to Opus Dei before attempting suicide.†   (source)
  • Coming from a small college in Pennsylvania, I felt very fortunate to have been admitted, but by the end of my first year I'd grown disillusioned.†   (source)
  • I need to Disillusion you.†   (source)
  • They were tears of grief, of anger, of disillusionment.†   (source)
  • And it leads to very disillusioned lives.†   (source)
  • Too much attachment, too much disillusion.†   (source)
  • At the same time, Mao himself had become disillusioned with some of the revolution's failures in transforming the nation.†   (source)
  • In 1852, in Moscow, disillusioned and convinced of his failure as a writer, he renounced all literary activity and burned the manuscript to the second volume of Dead Souls.†   (source)
  • I scan the dark room, through the thrashing bodies of disillusioned Parisian youth, getting their anger out with a healthy dose of French punk rock.†   (source)
  • If you still want to…, Now she turned to him, her hands lacy with suds, her pretty face pale and disillusioned.†   (source)
  • Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality… and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.†   (source)
  • The crying took on a bitter and disillusioned tone.†   (source)
  • But she wasn't, nor could she ever be, a manly influence in my life, and that fact, coupled with my growing disillusionment with my father, made me become something of a rebel, even at a young age.†   (source)
  • And that is why her disillusion was so bitter when she learned that Fermina Daza had rejected Florentino Ariza.†   (source)
  • And the way it all ended has left her feeling somewhat disillusioned.†   (source)
  • This form of disillusion is called 'romantic irony.'†   (source)
  • Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.†   (source)
  • But after what happened to her, I'm pretty disillusioned about staying at the university.†   (source)
  • In light of the bold and defiant line we had taken all along, an appeal would seem anticlimactic and even disillusioning.†   (source)
  • If word spreads that Eragon Shadeslayer is Morzan's son, the men will grow disillusioned and few people will want to join us.†   (source)
  • Standing at the gate, an astonishing figure, still in her evening frock, looking haggard and old in the gray, disillusioning light of early morning, was Lydia Sessions.†   (source)
  • *aw the doubt or the disillusion in Miro's eyes.†   (source)
  • " Sok Khorn's disillusionment arose in part because her husband never did any chores in the brothel but constantly had sex with the girls, outraging her; they finally divorced.†   (source)
  • But Ben never considered her a top prospect, and she gradually became disillusioned.†   (source)
  • The story began, "Two men who took part in the historic Iwo Jima flagraising sounded a note of sadness and disillusionment today as Buffalo jubilantly celebrated the first anniversary of V-J Day."†   (source)
  • Or just disillusioned.†   (source)
  • This was my chant, which I repeated like a rosary, a charm to change the facts, her inevitable disillusionment with our quest, which left us in this limbo where I felt her drawing away from me, dwarfing me with her enormous need.†   (source)
  • Disillusioned with political organizations, he had distilled his thoughts down to three or four basic ideas, on which he built his whole philosophy.†   (source)
  • Captain Black was deeply disillusioned by this treacherous stab in the back from someone in high place upon whom he had relied so confidently for support.†   (source)
  • I followed Narciso mechanically, weak and disillusioned I tramped after him into the dark twilight of the storm.†   (source)
  • It had everything my mother liked in a song'heartbreak, disillusionment, and death'all told in the voice of an old woman, now alone, looking back over all the things she'd had and lost.†   (source)
  • Recurring images of disillusionment and betrayal played across his dreamscape as old wounds opened anew.†   (source)
  • Above a spacious fireplace an oil portrait of the Founder looked down at me remotely, benign, sad, and in that hot instant, profoundly disillusioned.†   (source)
  • They were disillusioned, disoriented, and not a little resentful.†   (source)
  • It was disillusioning to know how carelessly he used both to do laps in the heady pool of politics.†   (source)
  • … So Santos joined forces with Carlos, two disillusioned Marxists in search of their personal cause-or maybe their own personal Hollywood.†   (source)
  • There is no solace among them, only a past infected with disillusion.†   (source)
  • And so along with the countless other disillusioned, restless children of Ham with so much to give and nowhere to give it, she took her talents to the street.†   (source)
  • And from time to time, Deo had to overcome his own disillusionment.†   (source)
  • He passes the time in their small cabin writing rants about his growing disillusionment with governmental power.†   (source)
  • I have been disillusioned so often…… I'd like to tell you just one story.†   (source)
  • Did you know, Will, that God planned that the world was to be a vast orb of disillusionment and pain?†   (source)
  • But fate has its master in the faith of those who surmount it, and limitation has its limits for those who, though disillusioned, live greatly.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure if I've ever appreciated fully the moral or deeper meanings of the story, which it no doubt has, but nevertheless it makes me think of many notions, the first being that the man has begun, whether knowing it or not, a sort of quest or journey, and ultimately finds himself, if in spiritual disillusion.†   (source)
  • The scene that lay before him in the most extraordinary color was more like something from Orlando Furioso than from the war he knew, and like one of the images men have before they go to war and are disillusioned.†   (source)
  • The weary cynicism of Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe in World War II, the bitter disillusionment of the "grunt" in Vietnam, must have had their counterparts in the Civil War, especially during the lethal campaigns of 1864 and the wasting warfare of the trenches.†   (source)
  • And never to have been disillusioned.†   (source)
  • Or there will be a long quiet period of increasing economic depression—from the embargo, I mean—and growing disillusionment.†   (source)
  • IT WAS AN ALL-TOO-FAMILIAR Story—a Story Of disillusion and dissatisfaction, of needs unmet, of economic and marital hopes dashed, of rage against the Americans and Jews over their perceived mistreatment of Muslims.†   (source)
  • Well, I hate to disillusion you, but I've sat by the hour with him and he's not sweet at all.†   (source)
  • He said it would quickly prove to us that we can't measure up—disillusion us by showing us that we are, in fact, inferior.†   (source)
  • I would never have been able to make remarks like the last, nor allude in such a roguish fashion to the house of McGraw-Hill, had it not been for the fact that the senior editor above me who read all my reports was a man sharing my disillusionment with our employer and all that the vast and soulless empire stood for.†   (source)
  • They were hungry and thirsty; exhausted and disillusioned.†   (source)
  • " He dropped out of school; volunteered for the Peace Corps but didn't get in; burned his draft card; marched to Mississippi and came home profoundly disillusioned with Negroes; moved to Buffalo, N.Y., where according to a friend there were going to be riots any day.†   (source)
  • Disbelief first; disillusionment; anger, reproach, pain.†   (source)
  • Disillusioned and discouraged when the opposition of influential segments of his own party accomplished his defeat, he had but one comment on the morning following election: "It is all right, twelve years of hard work, and a clean record; I am content."†   (source)
  • I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.   (source)
    disillusioned = disappointed from losing false belief that something is better than it is
  • He was beginning to feel somewhat disillusioned.   (source)
  • The ragged man went away, completely disillusioned.   (source)
  • But in spite of that she seemed to be disillusioned about everything and told everyone that she did not believe either in friendship or in love, or any of the joys of life, and expected peace only "yonder."   (source)
    disillusioned = disappointed by removal of false belief that something is better than it is
  • Then all of a sudden she would be disillusioned and would rudely and contemptuously repulse the person she had only a few hours before been literally adoring.   (source)
    disillusioned = disappointed from losing false belief that something is better than it is
  • But however indubitable that conclusion and the officer's conviction based upon it, Pierre felt it necessary to disillusion him.   (source)
    disillusion = disappoint by removing false belief that something is better than it is
  • But I must disillusion you a little.   (source)
  • She believes she is making sacrifices for Simon, and he doesn't want to disillusion her.†   (source)
  • Then, one by one, figures began to pop into sight as their Disillusionment Charms lifted.†   (source)
  • The stark moments of disillusionment had brought with them a clarity unlike any he had ever felt.†   (source)
  • In this way she could still keep them, and keep herself from disillusionment.†   (source)
  • 'Disillusionment Charm,' said Moody, raising his wand.†   (source)
  • That experience left Bagwell disillusioned and angry.†   (source)
  • A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment.†   (source)
  • He told it to me as an example of his disillusioned hope.†   (source)
  • Families used to stay in one village reliving the same disillusions.†   (source)
  • Because to help you I must disillusion you ….†   (source)
  • But by the end of the year he was most disillusioned.†   (source)
  • His face was agog with befuddlement and disillusion.†   (source)
  • You're a frustrated, unhappy, disillusioned, undisciplined, maladjusted young man!'†   (source)
  • A tsunami of bearded rebellion crashed down upon the poor king and carried him off, flailing helplessly, and spat him out on the shores of India, then Italy, and at last Switzerland, where he crawled from the muck and died a disillusioned old man in exile.†   (source)
  • Review the security arrangements around your house, making sure that all family members are aware of emergency measures such as Shield and Disillusionment Charms, and, in the case of underage family members, Side-Along-Apparition.†   (source)
  • I had heard this generation-complaint from Brinker before, so often that I finally identified this as the source of his disillusionment during the winter, this generalized, faintly self-pitying resentment against millions of people he did not know.†   (source)
  • Simon is tempted, but decides not to risk it; at this point he wants neither to be convinced, nor to be disillusioned.†   (source)
  • "I did everything," she whispered back, "Muffliato, Muggle-Repelling and Disillusionment Charms, all of it.†   (source)
  • Sophie registered with a touch of disillusionment that she had a body which was trying to sit up in bed.†   (source)
  • He rapped Harry hard over the head with his wand; Harry felt as though something hot was trickling down his back this time and knew that the Disillusionment Charm must have lifted.†   (source)
  • They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love.†   (source)
  • He didn't need a Cloak, he could perform a Disillusionment Charm so powerful that he made himself completely invisible without one!†   (source)
  • That night, with her life shattered by disillusionment and betrayal, she packed her belongings and left her home.†   (source)
  • 'Here,' Moody muttered, thrusting a piece of parchment towards Harry's Disillusioned hand and holding his lit wand close to it, so as to illuminate the writing.†   (source)
  • He promised to notify the numerous Caribbean refugees who lived in the city in case they wanted to pay their last respects to the man who had conducted himself as if he were the most respectable of them all, the most active and the most radical, even after it had become all too clear that he had been overwhelmed by the burden of disillusion.†   (source)
  • Returning to New York, he stared out at the skyline in disillusionment for days, overwhelmed with sadness for the future of Christianity.†   (source)
  • Harry bellowed, and he flung his arms over his head, hardly knowing whether he was trying to hold in his anger or protect himself from the weight of his own disillusionment.†   (source)
  • She had barely turned the corner into maturity, free at last of illusions, when she began to detect the disillusionment of never having been what she had dreamed of being when she was young, in the Park of the Evangels.†   (source)
  • But there were no lights in the castle windows, and he could conceal himself… and in a second he had cast upon himself a Disillusionment Charm that hid him even from his own eyes.†   (source)
  • Something very cold trickled down the back of Harrys neck; for a moment he thought someone was putting a Disillusionment Charm on him, then he realised that Mrs Weasley was attacking his hair with a wet comb.†   (source)
  • I mean to say, it is not a traveling cloak imbued with a Disillusionment Charm, or carrying a Bedazzling Hex, or else woven from Demiguise hair, which will hide one initially but fade with the years until it turns opaque.†   (source)
  • When it was already too late to make up for the past, she even suffered the disillusionment of knowing that he was not as tenacious as she had supposed, and from time to time she would still feel a belated longing for a letter that never arrived.†   (source)
  • We'll need to practice Disapparating together under the Invisibility Cloak for a start, and perhaps Disillusionment Charms would be sensible too, unless you think we should go the whole hog and use Polyjuice Potion?†   (source)
  • But if Adams was disillusioned by the Franklin he came to know at Passy, he also recognized thatFranklin had the confidence of Vergennes and the French Court as did no other American, and it was therefore the duty of all to treat him with respect.†   (source)
  • Back in April when she had been so disillusioned and scared, never knowing what real fear was, real fear was trying to crank your kid's window shut while a rabid dog drooled on the backs of your hands.†   (source)
  • If anyone had become harmless at that time it was the aging and disillusioned Colonel Aureliano Buendia, who was slowly losing all contact with the reality of the nation.†   (source)
  • A nation that drew its audacity from the quintessentially American belief that success is open to anyone willing to work for it was disillusioned by seemingly intractable poverty.†   (source)
  • The disillusioned Fernanda tried to obtain more precise information, but the unknown correspondents did not answer her letters any more.†   (source)
  • This might seem to confirm Gerald Linderman's thesis, in his book Embattled Courage, that the experiences of Civil War soldiers hardened them, causing them to shed the ideals of those innocent days of 1861 and to suffer "a disillusionment more profound than historians have acknowledged."†   (source)
  • The murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, coupled with the drawn-out American involvement in Vietnam, led to a national sense of disillusionment that was the diametric opposite of Camelot's hope and optimism.†   (source)
  • The sense of betrayal, disillusionment was huge, weakening, and something he hadn't felt in too many years to count.†   (source)
  • That's beyond me, monsieur, but if I vaguely understand you, the fantasy belongs to the brilliant Carlos; the bitter disillusion was Santos's fate.†   (source)
  • The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too, they would never forget.†   (source)
  • "You're a nervy little fighter, son," he said, "and the race needs good, smart, disillusioned fighters.†   (source)
  • He spent many hours in the hot room watching how the hard sheets of metal, worked by the colonel with the inconceivable patience of disillusionment, were slowly being converted into golden scales.†   (source)
  • I want you to observe, Miss Taggart, that those who cry the loudest about their disillusionment, about the failure of virtue, the futility of reason, the impotence of logicare those who have achieved the full, exact, logical result of the ideas they preached, so mercilessly logical that they dare not identify it.†   (source)
  • …in some vast, though obscure, enterprise, who affected the pseudo-courtly manners of certain southern congressmen and bowed and nodded as they passed like senile old roosters in a barnyard; the younger crowd for whom I now felt a contempt such as only a disillusioned dreamer feels for those still unaware that they dream-the business students from southern colleges, for whom business was a vague, abstract game with rules as obsolete as Noah's Ark but who yet were drunk on finance.†   (source)
  • 'For this,' replied the major, and, with an air of disillusioned disgust, tossed down on the table the pad on which the chaplain had signed his name.†   (source)
  • He needed so much concentration to link scales, fit minute rubies into the eyes, laminate gills, and put on fins that there was not the smallest empty moment left for him to fill with his disillusionment of the war.†   (source)
  • She was seeing Colonel Aureliano Buendia once more as she had seen him in the light of a lamp long before the wars, long before the desolation of glory and the exile of disillusionment, that remote dawn when he went to her bedroom to give the first command of his life: the command to give him love.†   (source)
  • He was a glowering, vengeful, disillusioned Indian who hated foreigners with names like Cathcart, Korn, Black and Havermeyer and wished they'd all go back to where their lousy ancestors had come from.†   (source)
  • But when she saw him enter the house in the middle of Colonel Aureliano Buendia's noisy escort and she saw how he had been mistreated by the rigors of exile, made old by age and oblivion, dirty with sweat and dust, smelling like a herd, ugly, with his left arm in a sling, she felt faint with disillusionment.†   (source)
  • I know plenty who'd be willing to take the chance of being 'disillusioned,' " the proprietor laughed.†   (source)
  • She said nothing to Peter - disillusion, if it came, would be too cruel - but somehow her eagerness communicated itself to the little boy; he quickened his stride.†   (source)
  • That's what they've wanted, what all of them struggled toward and missed and fell away from into disillusionment, or self-hatred, or compromise.†   (source)
  • A faithful, sardonic man, disillusioned, but not embittered.†   (source)
  • Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.†   (source)
  • For him, it was a disillusionment and a petty outrage.†   (source)
  • I'm too old to shoulder the burden of constant lies that go with living in polite disillusionment.†   (source)
  • Do not say anything to disillusion them.†   (source)
  • 'He was a disillusionment to me,' Pablo said sadly.†   (source)
  • It is not quite cynicism, still less bitterness; perhaps it is partly disillusionment, but it is also a clarity of mind that I should not have expected in anyone younger than--say, a century or so.†   (source)
  • Such were the extremes of emotion that Mr. Ramsay excited in his children's breasts by his mere presence; standing, as now, lean as a knife, narrow as the blade of one, grinning sarcastically, not only with the pleasure of disillusioning his son and casting ridicule upon his wife, who was ten thousand times better in every way than he was (James thought), but also with some secret conceit at his own accuracy of judgement.†   (source)
  • He had read all the literature of antiquity and forgotten all about it except a general aroma of charm and disillusion.†   (source)
  • In comparison with all this, our little stories of achievement seem pitiful; too well we know what bitterness of failure, loss, disillusionment, and ironic unfulfillment galls the blood of even the envied of the world!†   (source)
  • If he failed in that competition—and he knew he was to fail—Francon would be shocked and disillusioned; then if Heyer died, as he could die at any moment, Francon would hesitate—in the bitter aftermath of a public humiliation—to accept Keating as his partner; if Francon hesitated, the game was lost.†   (source)
  • And I, my friend, am surprised that you are so disillusioned with life when you are at home with the very things in it that are the deepest and most beautiful, spirit, art, and thought!†   (source)
  • Disillusion had come so often that it had awakened in him a strain of bitter suspicion, an occasional mockery, virulent, coarse, cruel, and subtle, which was all the more scalding because of his own pain.†   (source)
  • I am disillusioned.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • I knew it all, the whole drab compass of marital disillusion; we had been through it together, the Army and I, from the first importunate courtship until now, when nothing remained to us except the chill bonds of law and duty and custom.†   (source)
  • "You shouldn't've spoken to me," she said in a breaking voice that revealed the depths of her disillusionment.†   (source)
  • Therefore, in casting up this dread balance sheet and contemplating our dangers with a disillusioned eye, I see great reason for intense vigilance and exertion, but none whatever for panic or despair.†   (source)
  • There was no electricity to light their shacks, and at dusk each evening, lonely, confused, and disillusioned, they gathered in an open area near the Yokogawa railroad station to deal in the black markets and console each other.†   (source)
  • The hatefulness of a hated person is "real"--in hatred you see men as they are, you are disillusioned; but the loveliness of a loved person is merely a subjective haze concealing a "real" core of sexual appetite or economic association.†   (source)
  • He experienced awake the bliss of deep sleep, and returned to the light of day with such a convincing talisman of his unbelievable adventure that he was able to retain his self-assurance in the face of every sobering disillusionment.†   (source)
  • I think you ought to go away really almost at once, in case my disillusioned mouth should suddenly determine to introduce you to my great gills, which have teeth in them also.†   (source)
  • I observed with disillusioned clarity the despicable nonentity of the street; its porches; its window curtains; the drab clothes, the cupidity and complacency of shopping women; and old men taking the air in comforters; the caution of people crossing; the universal determination to go on living, when really, fools and gulls that you are, I said, any slate may fly from a roof, any car may swerve, for there is neither rhyme nor reason when a drunk man staggers about with a club in his…†   (source)
  • Cigars had burned low, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had believed they had.†   (source)
  • Thus it was that, at about one o'clock, in anger and disillusionment I steered a course for the cloakroom, to put on my coat again and go.†   (source)
  • With dispassionate despair, with entire disillusionment, I surveyed the dust dance; my life, my friends' lives, and those fabulous presences, men with brooms, women writing, the willow tree by the river—clouds and phantoms made of dust too, of dust that changed, as clouds lose and gain and take gold or red and lose their summits and billow this way and that, mutable, vain.†   (source)
  • And Melanie, bursting into tears of self-condemnation, fled the room, leaving Scarlett to a tearless bed, with wounded pride, disillusionment and jealousy for bedfellows.†   (source)
  • That had been the first big disillusion to him a few months back and he had started to be cynical to himself about it.†   (source)
  • The hard seat was dear to me, and so was the peasant glass and the cool racy taste of the Elsasser and my intimacy with all and everything in this room, and the faces of the bent and dreaming drinkers, those disillusioned ones, whose brother I had been for so long.†   (source)
  • To me he was a great disillusionment.†   (source)
  • He may vary from the disillusioned critic like old Thornton Hancock, all the way to Trotsky.†   (source)
  • Smiling, but somehow disillusioned, she jumped out, and her impetus carried her to the front-door.†   (source)
  • I believed her young, ardent, reckless, disillusioned, under sentence, feverish, avid of pleasure.†   (source)
  • And she gave, in her simple sharpness, an almost droll disillusioned nod.†   (source)
  • Sir Harry Otway signed the agreement, met Mr. Emerson, who was duly disillusioned.†   (source)
  • And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.†   (source)
  • One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned.†   (source)
  • Night witchery and morning disillusion were alike forgotten in the march of realities and days.†   (source)
  • She sighed—and there was a world of disillusionment in that sigh.†   (source)
  • CYRANO: Roxane shall never have a disillusion!†   (source)
  • They suffered from the usual disillusion that attends warfare.†   (source)
  • But if I marry Jack, you'll never be disillusioned—at least not until I grow too old.†   (source)
  • And what a disillusioning effect the necessary use of modern vehicles had on the funeral procession.†   (source)
  • The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.†   (source)
  • In self-reproach and loneliness and disillusion he came to the entrance of the labyrinth.†   (source)
  • 'Are you so disillusioned?' queried Bazarov.†   (source)
  • Where was his spleen, his contempt for life, his disillusionment?†   (source)
  • Prince Andrew looked at the laughing Speranski with astonishment, regret, and disillusionment.†   (source)
  • Climates that breathe amorous secrets and futile regrets may agree with an old and disillusioned man like myself; but they must always prove fatal to a temperament which is still unformed.†   (source)
  • And besides, there's something so cold, so disillusioning about a ring— it is a symbol of a woman's dependence, it seems to me; it makes a woman seem practically a nun, turns her into a wallflower, a touch-me-not.†   (source)
  • And as the ride wore into hours, such was her discomfort and disillusion that she forgot about Glenn Kilbourne.†   (source)
  • Though often disillusioned, she was still waiting for that halcyon day when she would be led forth among dreams become real.†   (source)
  • I had always conceived a burial at sea to be a very solemn and awe-inspiring event, but I was quickly disillusioned, by this burial at any rate.†   (source)
  • —disillusionment again.†   (source)
  • And in case of an injury but suspected, its secretiveness voluntarily cuts it off from enlightenment or disillusion; and, not unreluctantly, action is taken upon surmise as upon certainty.†   (source)
  • Disillusion.†   (source)
  • He had reason to think that his three months of engrossing professional work, following on the sharp shock of his disillusionment, had cleared his mind of its sentimental vapours.†   (source)
  • "Or if not," she continued, pursuing her own thought with a painful application, "if it's not worth while to have given up, to have missed things, so that others may be saved from disillusionment and misery—then everything I came home for, everything that made my other life seem by contrast so bare and so poor because no one there took account of them—all these things are a sham or a dream—"†   (source)
  • He came just when her own bitterness of disillusion was hardest to bear; when her faith in life was shaken, and her soul felt dreary and lonely.†   (source)
  • A horrible procession of wretched girls, each in the claws of a cynical, cunning, avaricious, disillusioned, ignorantly experienced, foul-minded old woman whom she calls mother, and whose duty it is to corrupt her mind and sell her to the highest bidder.†   (source)
  • He began to think of Paris as before he had thought of London, but he had no fear of a second disillusion; he yearned for romance and beauty and love, and Paris seemed to offer them all.†   (source)
  • The saddest disillusion of his life, the keenest disappointment, the strangest pain, would always be associated with her.†   (source)
  • No disillusion as to the world in which she had grown up could cure his illusion as to her desirability.†   (source)
  • Since the time of his disillusionment, Jurgis had sworn to trust no man, except in his own family; but here he discovered that he had brothers in affliction, and allies.†   (source)
  • She tried to free herself from the speculation and disillusionment which had been twitching at her; sought to dismiss all the opinionation of an insurgent era.†   (source)
  • In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but here the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I admit," he went on, with his own peculiar smile, gently ironical, disillusioned and vague, "I have every useless thing in the world in my house there.†   (source)
  • Her still face, with the mouth closed tight from suffering and disillusion and self-denial, and her nose the smallest bit on one side, and her blue eyes so young, quick, and warm, made his heart contract with love.†   (source)
  • I felt somewhat disillusioned, for this young lady was in no way different from other pretty women whom I had seen from time to time at home, especially the daughter of one of our cousins, to whose house I went every New Year's Day.†   (source)
  • At half-past three no one had come, and the grocery boy reluctantly got out, cranked his Ford, glared at them in a disillusioned manner, and rattled away.†   (source)
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