Sentence examples for lost their illusions about from inspiring English sources
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukIT WAS at the battle of the Somme that ordinary soldiers lost their illusions about the nature of modern warfare.
Athens's military resilience after its defeats in Sicily was remarkable, but the political credibility of the radical democracy had been battered: the rich had lost money, the thētes had lost men, all classes had lost their illusions.
The icons have lost their illusion of 3D and now become two-tone graphics, white on a colored background. .
She can't remember when she lost her illusion about the Cheese, but it is nothing to children to lose their illusions, tadpoles are much more put about when they lose their tails.
"They are losing their illusions".
Some Chinese scholars say Beijing's newly assertive stance reflects the sentiments of many of its citizens, who, they argue, lost their romantic illusions about the U.S. economic model and its superiority in the wake of the made-in-America global recession.
About 25 instructors lost their jobs.
About 40 families lost their homes.
About 200 people have lost their jobs.
Compounding the illusion that global growth is a zero-sum game is the reality that some people have lost their jobs to globalization.
After all, "to call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions".
