Those heady days are over, and she expresses disillusion over the meager results.
Artists and audiences were expressing a disillusion with the impersonal systems that dominate modern life, and reaching for the human encounter.
Maybe it's only a politician leaving office at a deeply pessimistic moment who can truly bring together all kinds of Americans in a coalition of shared disillusion, expressed through shopping — and become, however belatedly, a uniter.
In another, a protest over an allegedly fraudulent by-election, one person died and ten were wounded when police opened fire.Some commentators have expressed the fear that disillusion with politicians may be almost as widespread as it is in Pakistan.
But the rise of nationalism expressed a real feeling: the gap between disillusion with 'an increasingly demoralised Great Britain' and 'oil-fired expectations at a Scottish level'.
He replied, "Nonsense, I may have expressed for them their own illusion of being disillusioned, but that did not form part of my intention". He did not want to be the poet of a "lost generation" of war survivors, but rather, he wanted, like most poets, to write for all ages.
PCC staff are disillusioned and even the outgoing chair has expressed concern for the future of the regulator.
There's no hint of criticism or disillusion, in sharp contrast to the doubts frequently expressed in Joseph Goebbels' diary.
She expressed an idealism that was tinged with pessimism and fear of disillusion.
A disillusioning experience, it produced, however, a few short writings in which he expressed his scholarly and political convictions more directly than in his major works.
