Sentence examples for a disillusion. from inspiring English sources

"There's a disillusion with economic growth.

The report suggests the student movement was characterised by a disillusion with traditional ideologies and party politics - including communism.

Artists and audiences were expressing a disillusion with the impersonal systems that dominate modern life, and reaching for the human encounter.

Although the Occupy Wall Street protest, along with many sister movements in Europe, also starts from a disillusion about government action, it comes with the constructive feeling that there must be a way the government can make things better.

The attacks were unprovoked", and assured the world that "we seek no wider war", Ellsberg knew "all of those statements were false" – the beginnings of a disillusion that would eventually lead him to leak the top secret Pentagon Papers seven years later.

Or when he huffs and puffs thoughtfully about Los Angeles, "a city of big dreams and cruelly inevitable disappointments," where noir is "a disillusion that shadows even the best of times, an alienation that assails the senses like the harsh glitter of mica in the sidewalk on a pitiless Santa Ana day".

Too many intractable forces--a disillusioned middle class, a mob of urban marginals, a deeply dispossessed working class, a blighted agricultural proletariat--are seething under the veneer of stability.

It had been a disillusioning experience.

After a disillusioning focus group with N.Y.U.

And when he took a "disillusioning glimpse at the screen with the naked eye," he shuddered.

Which may be true, but it is a disillusioning statement of intent, undermining what follows.