Sentence examples for in disillusioned from inspiring English sources

"All perished, all, Friends, enemies, of all parties, ages, ranks, Head after head, and never heads enough For those who bade them fall," Wordsworth wrote, in disillusioned horror, after it was over; and we see the heads falling still.

He was particularly interested in disillusioned outsiders in conflict with society and the law (albeit motivated more by emotion than logic), and their ensuing violence and pain, both of which were conveyed in a deeply sensuous way through the powerful performances Penn consistently drew from his actors.

Whether that is achieving the desired end is debatable, with particular concern over the long-term effects of hot-housing tens of thousands of youngsters fished from the pool at the age of six or seven then periodically culled and chucked back in, disillusioned and despairing.

I remembered being profoundly moved by that story of a group of young people who had fought at the barricades in 1968, longed so passionately for a radical change in society's structure, and found themselves in 1975 disillusioned and frustrated at feeling that it was all in vain.

The fiction of the former Communist Europe was based on a very different assumption, one that seems naïve and old-fashioned in its collective optimism to readers in the disillusioned democracies.

But Happy Days is also an examination of marriage in a disillusioned post-World War II atmosphere, just as in its way Waiting for Godot is an up-close-and-personal look at friendship.

But in the disillusioned "Self-Portrait (Knight Errant)" (1914-15), the artist, dressed in an army uniform (he was seriously wounded in World War I) that also resembles medieval armor, lies on what appears to be a battlefield, in a disconsolate state.

Penn made only two further films in the 70s - Night Moves, a murky thriller steeped in the disillusioned malaise of the Watergate era, and The Missouri Breaks, which the Los Angeles Times critic described as "a pair of million dollar babies in a five and ten cent flick".

In my disillusioned state, I found there were many attractions to moving abroad.

In 2002, disillusioned with orthodox Islam, young white convert Michael Muhhamad Knight wrote the provocative novel Taqwacores.

In these disillusioned modern times, we have learned to separate artistic and literary achievement from the artist's moral character.