| 单词 | disenchanting |
| 例句 | If it played a role in disenchanting the world, it did so precisely because it was effectively inculcated among the educated, clerical and lay, male and female. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And each will ultimately find that a limiting and disenchanting endeavor. ‘Innocents and Others’: Female friendship through the lens of film 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Hearing authors read their own work can be as disenchanting as seeing an admired actor out of makeup in the starkness of daylight. Perspective | Diane Keaton and Ronan Farrow show the challenges of narrating your own audiobook 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z The thesis of Lee’s 1969 hit can be summarized as: Life is an unbroken series of disenchanting events, and the best solution is to “break out the booze and have a ball” with your friends. ‘Vladimir,’ a Debut That Celebrates Transgression — Up to a Point 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z This pleasurable absorption was the exception in my recent disenchanting spree of moviegoing. Commentary: Oscar or not, Paul Mescal makes screen acting look natural again 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Disney’s corporate dominance can be pretty disenchanting — but for many, classic tunes like “When You Wish Upon a Star” and “Beauty and the Beast” still hold magic within them. Lang Lang believes Disney songs are good for kids — and the classical music world 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z He said his first foray into politics was a disenchanting one and will also be his last. Durant won’t endorse in Alabama’s Senate runoff 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z We may balk at replacing an enchanting story about a prizewinning essay with a disenchanting one about library larceny. My Stepdad Has Alzheimer’s. Can My Mom Date Someone Else? 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Past interpreters have read this "Sonnet — To Science" as a standard romantic attack on the disenchanting effects of objective inquiry, then a growing force in the young republic. Edgar Allan Poe’s engagement with American science 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Catering to the moderates and centrists poses a bigger risk — disenchanting the party’s core voters in 2020 and dampening turnout in key cities like Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Detroit, he said. Democrats debate how far left is too far left as they prepare to take on Trump 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z She said she’s trying to encourage people despite the rhetoric of the day: “It’s so disgusting and it’s so disenchanting and disheartening.” Longoria, Ferrera, Saldana and more rally for Latino votes 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z This kind of tiptoeing to the future is not enough to break Cuba’s deep and disenchanting stagnation. Opinion | No more Castroism: Cuba needs to free its own people 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The Washington Wizards’ disenchanting season enters a precarious phase now. Perspective | John Wall’s injury turns Wizards’ ‘wolf’ season into campaign of the underdog 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z In the often disenchanting world of youth sports, it’s refreshing to find a dad like Thompson, with less swagger than the average know-it-all at the local gym. So you want to raise a pro athlete? Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have some tips 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The Knicks had suffered through another disenchanting year, deftly avoiding the playoffs, and Jackson sounded like a man returning dud fireworks on the 5th of July. Let’s Sell New York With Phil Jackson 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z "I can expect somewhat of a period of disenchanting stories," he said. Here come virtual-reality headsets — are they game changers? 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z This book, so terribly personal, is a record of the disenchanting experiences of a shattered friendship. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Near views of Oriental despotisms are as disenchanting as near views of "the noble savage," for they contain within themselves the seeds of "all villainies," which rarely, if ever, fail of fructification. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z This risk of delay, however, is still a much better option than keeping the employment of hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk and disenchanting the loyal supporters that fuel the leagues. Op-Ed Contributor: Avoiding the Next Sports Lockout 2011-07-26T23:37:42Z And they made their way to the back, cold and draughty, and very disenchanting, as the workmen were shifting the scenes. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z It is here that we are sometimes reminded of Troilus and Cressida, and the cold and disenchanting light that is there cast on the Trojan War. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z So a slight rebuff was administered to poor Paul, which had the happy effect of somewhat disenchanting him. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Containing ways and means for disenchanting the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, being one of the most famous adventures in the whole book. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z The Banks of the Kladeus When we came to the real Olympia the prospect was truly disenchanting. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z A closer inspection is disenchanting, for it reveals the dirt, squalor, and disorder characteristic of the daily life of the natives, and which cannot fail to impress the traveler unpleasantly. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The edge of a soiled petticoat, or the glimpse of a rent stocking is singularly disenchanting. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z "Very peculiar, disenchanting sort of talk, this, under the circumstances, sister Mary," laying down his fork. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Vulgar rumour adds the enormous rewards she demands for disenchanting him and so forth; but more trustworthy accounts suggest that all her especial subtlety will be needed to effect her own escape. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier "This is a very disenchanting picture you put before me." Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Tripoli, like all the cities of the Orient, is beautiful, if seen from a distance; approach to it is sure to be very disenchanting to the traveler. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Travelling through the West and South in search of fortune as well as of specimens his experiences were often disenchanting. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 Did I doubt thee here;—could I ever think, that thy heart hath yet one private nook or corner from me;—fatal disenchanting day for me, my Pierre, would that be. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z She replied, "I confess that fur coat is disenchanting; how could you expect me to be smitten with such a figure as that?" The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun In one of Mr. Hayward's Essays—"The Pearls and Mock Pearls of History"—there are some examples of this disenchanting process. Logic, Inductive and Deductive The Hawaiian was the nobler woman, with the nobler story; and no disenchanting portrait will be found to shatter an ideal. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Alas!” he cried, “is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) But not until he had begun to mount the steps before her did he notice that she was sound asleep in a gaping and disenchanting stupor. In the Heart of a Fool She possessed a certain native insight which revealed many of the horrent inequalities of her pathway; but she found it so cruel and disenchanting a faculty, that blindness was infinitely preferable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 At an early hour, the money will disappear through some unseen agency, and will afterwards be consigned to a disenchanting locality in the Cuban bay. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba "If you could contrive to make yourself disenchanting!" Say and Seal, Volume II Of course there is the one fatally disenchanting line: While fly and leaf and insect stood revealed. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti The foregoing picture of Oriental munificence can scarcely be more disenchanting than the sight of the sketch of Mohammed-Schah which Prince Soltykoff had the honor to take. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 On closer approach to Jessimina, I have made the rather disenchanting discovery that she has rendered her nose lilac from too much superfluity of face-powder. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. Mr. Martineau will complain that I am disenchanting the babe of its wonder; but is this the case? Fragments of science, V. 1-2 And, in the second place, he commits the error, equally palpable, of disenchanting the eyes of his reader. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Possibly the Italian journey was in some respects disenchanting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 When he published the disenchanting result of his observations, showing to what lengths a peasant will go for money, there was a sensation. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections There is no disenchanting bird's-eye view of the counter with all things thereon. By the Christmas Fire What an inevitable and disenchanting morrow to the insane life he was leading! The Nabob, Volume 1 How disenchanting sound those climbing, arbutus-like arpeggios and subtle half-tints of Chopin when played on that brutal, jangling instrument of wood, wire and iron, the pianoforte! Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques But perhaps the most fatal influence against the growth and perpetuation of vivid friendships between parents and children is the disenchanting effect of familiarity. The Friendships of Women Alas! the disenchanting years have roll'd On hearts and minds becoming cold: Mirth is gone from us; and the world is old. Primavera Poems by Four Authors Sweet, as well as disenchanting experiences are sometimes gained behind the scenes. Sword and Gown A Novel The disenchanting and discriminating tendency of a realistic age has, however, somewhat reformed the bar. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Under the disenchanting influence of steam, manufactures, and projected rail-roads, still much of the old character of its population remains. Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster She seemed to take a malicious pleasure in checkmating him by her personal remarks, her disenchanting answers, and her apparent listlessness. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 The converse is, however, the more amusing and usually disenchanting: the recognition, in the Piazza, in the evening, in their clothes, of certain of the morning's bathers. A Wanderer in Venice He had actually succeeded in ignoring another disenchanting reality—the presence of Mrs. Danvers. Sword and Gown A Novel The injustice and malice to which he soon after became a victim had an equally fatal effect in disenchanting the dream of his existence. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals This passage should be set beside the complaint in "Lamia" of the disenchanting touch of science: "There was an awful rainbow once in heaven," etc. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century In fact, I believe there is nothing so disenchanting, so contrary to ideal young womanhood as a lack of neatness and tidiness in person and dress. Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls It was disenchanting to find one's husband enrolled in a list of political reprobates whose activities in so many states were a menace to public safety. A Hoosier Chronicle There seemed to be something particularly disenchanting in the atmosphere of that study. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal "Yes, but to keep from seeing the disenchanting crowd you would have to wear a long-vizored cap like a jockey and blinkers like a horse." Là-bas She never mentioned him, and Ashe could only suppose she had found him disenchanting. The Marriage of William Ashe With the irony of an entomologist piercing the coloured insect he shows us the disenchanting reality in the sad shadow of the scenes, of these butterflies who dazzle us on the stage. The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Painfully did the ideal light fade away, and the well-remembered scene stand revealed in disenchanting day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 For my part," said Don Quixote, "hadst thou demanded a fee for disenchanting Dulcinea, I can tell thee that I would have given it thee already. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites Toulouse-Lautrec had not the impersonal vision of Zola nor the repressed and disenchanting irony of Degas. Promenades of an Impressionist They are not content to watch, but they introduce ‘tests,’ generally with the most disenchanting results. Cock Lane and Common-Sense There is, I think, something most disagreeably disenchanting in the sound of one's own voice under such circumstances, exerted in solitude, and in vain. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 And there had seemed between them a sympathy so native and spontaneous, creating at once the charm of intimacy without any of the disenchanting attributes that are occasionally its consequence. Coningsby The room looks common; but the fact is 'Tis a cell of magic practice, So disguised by common daylight, By its disenchanting grey light, Only spirit-eyes, mesmeric, See its glories esoteric. A Hidden Life and Other Poems No work of Art of a more chilling, disenchanting character was ever produced. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 It would be disenchanting indeed were extremes of this sort brought together. The Century Vocabulary Builder But to renounce all my plans, always to remain in the same place, to be upon this earth, and to see nothing of it—what a squalid, disenchanting future! The Story of a Child This was the true secret for disenchanting the martial pretensions of his army. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 In our day Science has gone before the most adventurous barque, limiting the possibilities of discovery, disenchanting the enchanted Seas, and depriving us for ever of Sinbad and Ulysses. Lectures and Essays There was also less danger of disenchanting her by his presence, for woman's perception is quick. Opening a Chestnut Burr Yet he could not go back, because there is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. Lord Jim Indeed, one may digress and say that we found the whole estate of the press in France rather disenchanting. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me We found that modern mechanical invention, instead of disenchanting the universe, had really afforded the means of exploring its marvels the more surely. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran Sydney, why will you go on disenchanting me? Magnum Bonum Copying one's own words is at all times a disenchanting drudgery, and when the end was reached Godwin signed his name with hasty contempt. Born in Exile The draughts, the dust, the wide, icy space of the stage, the droning voices, the crisp interruptions, the stupid "business," endlessly repeated, all seemed equally disenchanting. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby The sordidness of it would be too disenchanting. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life It is disenchanting to some of our cherished ideals. Their Pilgrimage By its harder glare the wooden room looked harder too, and disenchanting. The Island Pharisees The cold philosophy of the Maxims marked perhaps the reaction of his intellect against the disenchanting experiences of his life. The Women of the French Salons What an obvious and disenchanting to-morrow to the mad life he was leading! The Nabob In the case of Dr. Holmes’s books, I am very sensible of this disenchanting effect of time and experience. Adventures Among Books The act of eating is apt to be disenchanting. Their Pilgrimage Then comes the “practical application” as preachers say, and I feel now that it is sometimes uncalled for, disenchanting, and even manufactured. Letters on Literature It is needless to discuss here the merits of the stormy, disenchanting eighteenth century, which was the mother of our own, and upon which the world is likely to remain hopelessly divided. The Women of the French Salons |
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