Sentence examples for lost illusions from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

That's the land of never-was and might-have-been, of the ache of lost illusions that we massage into something pleasurable.

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.

Based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's 1934 play about lost illusions, this musical held onto the central stunt of tracing its characters' fortunes from their jaded present to their idealistic past.

On March 29 , 1953 she makes an entry detailing which books she has liked best: Sister Carrie--Dreiser; Dodsworth--Lewis; Sentimental Education--Flaubert; Satyricon--Petronius; Daniel Deronda--Eliot Deronda--Eliot Deronda--EliotLost Illusions--Balzac; Distinguished partlycial--Balzac; Our Mutual FrienDeadickens; David Copperfield--DickenSouls--Gogoldset.