Sentence examples for young illusion from inspiring English sources

In chapter 11 Plath writes "disenchantment – cruel irony of young illusion of sea" and in the author's note Plath has underlined Conrad's comment about "Thinking it over for something like sixteen years".

But what distinguishes "Hair" from other recent shows about being young is the illusion it sustains of rawness and immediacy, an un-self-conscious sense of the most self-conscious chapter in a person's life.

Kids' stuff like "Hannah Montana" and "iCarly" plays the same trompe l'oeil tricks in a more wholesome context, feeding young viewers the illusion that they can see through the clouds of hype and cynicism that make up more and more of the cultural air they breathe.

The young harbor no illusions, least of all about good governance, and have come to the sober assessment that one can rely only on oneself.

"One of the primary things the play says – which I could not have identified with strongly when I was younger – is the illusion by which we all live; the crown every one of us wears.

In March 1931 a group of young officers, under the illusion that Ugaki's policies were dictated by civilians, attempted a coup to install Ugaki as premier.

Inside, they find the illusion of young Amy, Amelia, still waiting for the return of her "raggedy Doctor" ("The Eleventh Hour").

The young man had no illusions.

For Obama: The Rambler No. 196, on the illusions of young hope.

Such experiences undoubtedly strip many young people of any illusions about the neutrality of the state.

In the place of these illusions, the young revolutionaries made the struggle against their own dictatorships their political priority, just as their Iraqi counterparts had done in vain 20 years earlier after the first gulf war.