Sentence examples for lost illusion from inspiring English sources

At first she was a nameless figure, a personification of an ideal, then a lost illusion resurrected in real human flesh.

Practice that every time you feel the sour taste of resentment and before you know it you'll live your life without the pain from the lost illusion and that is taking ultimate ownership of your life and waking up the True You.

The devastation of the lost illusion sent me into a downward spiral.

The tone of wistful mourning — for lost love, lost illusions — never jells.

A timeless classic about lost illusions, lost ideals, lost youth, now translated into English for the first time.

These films, which deal with lost illusions, mirrored his own spiritual crisis at the time.

For Michael, the very same landscape is one of turmoil, lost illusions, and physical endurance.

"What we have here are not friendships regained but lost illusions," says Josef Joffe, editor of Germany's Die Zeit.

Simon Gray (1936-2008) waspecialistlint in rueful comedies of lost illusions, usually set in intellectual landscapes like the groves of academe or book publishing.

The world of wasted youth and lost illusions and the powerlessness of men to overthrow corruption are evoked in a prose that at times resembles lyric poetry.

Set on a Russian country estate that has fallen into disrepair (sound familiar?), "Longing" is built sturdily around the Chekhovian staples of thwarted love, lost illusions and passing, hope-stunting time.