Disillusionment Sentence Examples

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  • He had fifteen years left to live, years spent in bitter disillusionment in which he felt his life had been a failure.

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  • The disillusionment that followed was profound.

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  • These deaths in Iraq have led to growing disillusionment in US.

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  • He was under no illusion as to their achievements; his memoir on the work of the congress of Vienna is at once an incisive piece of criticism and a monument of his own disillusionment.

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  • During a period of reaction, there was a widespread disillusionment about politics among all sections of the population.

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  • The disillusionment as regards material means for improving the life of mankind had given rise in many minds to a quest for religion, and this mystic current had attracted men like Struve, Bulgakov, Berdiayev and others.

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  • The nation, restive under his now broken yoke, received with a joyous anticipation, which the future was to discount, the royal infant whom they called Louis the Well-beloved, and whose funeral sixty years later was to be greeted with the same proofs of disillusionment.

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  • Contrary indications are that this disillusionment with the established political system could produce the threat of right wing reactions.

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  • Corruption also undermines fragile democratic systems, by fueling popular disillusionment with politics.

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  • Ready availability of counseling and advice for all teachers would help minimize drop-out and general disillusionment.

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  • The defeat of a series of right wing governments expressed a deep disillusionment with the existing political establishment.

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  • It sounds to me like a recipe for an empty life now, and increasing disillusionment in the future.

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  • The impasse of the bureaucracy created widespread disillusionment in the working class.

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  • Passionate writing and courageous performance born out of anger, disillusionment, and an implacable hatred of Ben Elton.

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  • Prince Andrew looked at the laughing Speranski with astonishment, regret, and disillusionment.

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  • Where was his spleen, his contempt for life, his disillusionment?

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  • In fact, it can be a job full of lengthy shifts, drudgery, and disillusionment as crew members learn just what goes on behind the scenes of exotic cruise vacations.

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  • The album defines Manchester as a Northern working class city, the band's haunting melodies focusing on themes of boredom and of disillusionment with the mundane 9-5 ethic.

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  • Of course it is not, it is a sign of deep disillusionment with all establishment parties.

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  • Catch 21 - unlike Catch22 - provides a way out - a way out of political disillusionment.

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  • This has caused disillusionment in a private sector reluctant to waste bidding costs where lowest price wins at the end of the day.

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  • Of a fourth opinion the most conspicuous representative was the Tsarevich, who could not forget his disillusionment at Austerlitz, where he had ridden out at the head of the Guards, in his casque and cavalry uniform as to a review, expecting to crush the French gallantly; but unexpectedly finding himself in the front line had narrowly escaped amid the general confusion.

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  • His disillusionment was completed by the murder of the duc d'Enghien.

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  • Guicciardini seems to glory in his disillusionment, and uses his vast intellectual ability for the analysis of the corruption he had helped to make incurable.

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  • Their disillusionment, indeed, was speedy and complete, and their gratitude was great, when, by the conditions of the armistice of 549, he allowed their return.

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  • The completion of the second Temple (516 B.C.) has been followed by disillusionment as to the anticipated prosperity, by indifference to worship, scepticism as to providence, and moral laxity.'

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