Sentence examples for illusion shattered from inspiring English sources

"Another illusion shattered".

The fantasy of the normalization of Donald Trump the idea that a demagogic candidate would somehow be transformed into a statesman of poise and deliberation after his Election Day victory should now be a distant memory, an illusion shattered.

In just one foolish -- there's the foolish part -- remark, one hears self-revelation, self-mockery, infinitely sad reflection, regret, painfully real reprimand and glimmers of illusion shattered, like glass.

The illusion shattered.

With that illusion shattered, I asked Bera and other financial advisers what I could do to put myself in the best position for when I can eventually retire.

Ultimately, choices are made and illusions shattered.

Willy, bitter and broken, his illusions shattered, commits suicide.

"They had their illusions shattered by the reality of gulags, of extreme repression, hypocrisy, Stalin's pact with Hitler..

The reader knows that sooner or later a character like Sir Galahad is going to have his illusions shattered.

"They had their illusions shattered by the reality of gulags, of extreme repression, hypocrisy, Stalin's pact with Hitler...

"It's back to American subject matter," he said: "pipe dreams, illusions shattered, as in 'The Iceman Cometh,'Streetcarar,' 'Death of a Salesman' -- and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' " While readying the play for its opening, Mr. Albee has also been teaching playwriting at the University of Houston, as he has for more than a decade.