| 单词 | disillusioning |
| 例句 | In light of the bold and defiant line we had taken all along, an appeal would seem anticli- mactic and even disillusioning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was disillusioning when it didn’t work out.” New Doubts in Natalie Wood’s Death: ‘I Don’t Think She Got in the Water by Herself’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Morea, however, found Pop Art’s market ascendance and the concurrent stardom of figures like Andy Warhol — whom he dismissed as “a fashion illustrator manufactured into an artist” — profoundly disillusioning. The Artist Ben Morea Returns to the Site of the Revolution 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z His solution was to deepen the myth by moving hundreds of miles away from Tahiti to another island, another, remoter, disillusioning Eden. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z “There is a real sense that democracy isn’t delivering what it promises, and that’s disillusioning,” she said. Danielle Allen Wins Re-envisioned Kluge Humanities Prize 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Watching the hearings was disillusioning: the same questions asked over and over, a clear lack of understanding of the engineering issues. Toyota Fears Will Hurt All The Automakers 2010-02-26T11:00:00Z It veers between the political and the fantastical, the mysterious and the sarcastic, the utopian and the disillusioning. BAM's 'Travelers': postcards from the edge 2011-09-15T19:26:05Z “It’s literally disillusioning to have to do away with the romanticized narrative of the U.S. that I had,” he said. A Lebanese Rocker Caught in a Human Rights Incident Over Rainbow Flags 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z From a different author, this domestic muckraking would be disillusioning and satiric, a searing exposure of a happy family’s corrupt origins. Anne Tyler’s new novel feels familiar, but that’s actually a good thing 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z As disillusioning as these encounters can be, they still open the potential for an escape into unpredictable kinds of solidarity from the vulnerability of loneliness. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z Did you have experiences with your first album that were disillusioning? How Banks Found Her Voice on Her New Album The Altar 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Like many teenage protagonists, Paige discovers disillusioning secrets about her parents. ‘The Americans,’ in Its Melancholy Fourth Season, Was ‘Breaking Sad’ 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Oranges, not unexpectedly, also play a significant role in the story, symbolizing, as they have throughout California's history, the state's ripe, sunny promise and often disillusioning realities. The curious incident of Leela in the nighttime: New play explores the OC through autistic eyes 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Schulberg, son of a Hollywood producer, grew up on studio lots and had a brief and disillusioning flirt with the Communist Party. The movie that foretold the rise of Donald Trump 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z She found the district’s attempt to do that this summer at the “well-resourced schools” meetings disillusioning. Seattle school closures could hinge on new enrollment, capacity counts 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z It would end, perhaps, with the bitter, disillusioning coda of Oppenheimer’s postwar career, during which he would speak out against nuclear proliferation but never express public regret for the bomb’s Japanese casualties. Review: Christopher Nolan's gripping, despairing 'Oppenheimer' ponders history and the future 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The exhibition is as disillusioning about any reflexive association of the Renaissance with pervasive humanism as it is about the Tudors themselves. Perspective | Learning an old lesson from the Tudors: Grifters gonna grift 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z And discovering, decades after his death, that significant points in his life I had been told about were basically fairy tales he had passed down was a disorienting and disillusioning experience. Why do guys like George Santos lie? I asked myself the same thing about my father 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The disillusioning experience of working for a legacy institution led her to create her own opportunities. Samella Lewis, 'godmother' of Black art who helped preserve its history, dies at 99 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Later, after a disillusioning encounter with Alexander Trocchi, author of the heroin-infused “Cain’s Book,” Campbell recognizes how deeply he values reading, art and the acquisition of knowledge. Review | The tale of a dropout who found purpose in books, travel and just living 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z So this wasn’t a grand disillusioning for you. Aaron Lewis on Tucker Carlson, 'idiotic' Biden and 'all this racism that appeared out of nowhere' 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Butler alights on Watergate as a disillusioning American moment, during which “the Method could bring audiences closer than ever to the internal conflicts and pains of living in Nixon’s America.” Review: Can acting change the world? Isaac Butler argues that it already has 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Dr. Chen described the experience of the last year as traumatic and deeply disillusioning. ‘In the End, You’re Treated Like a Spy,’ Says M.I.T. Scientist 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z And perhaps before any of that, he’ll have to win over the remaining players from a very disillusioning Husky season. Can coach Kalen DeBoer turn around a broken UW Huskies football program? 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z As I wrote following last week’s disillusioning election, “messaging” is something that Democrats have been atrocious at. Column: The infrastructure bill offers lots for California, and social spending you wouldn't expect 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z She also believes that Democrats risk disillusioning newer voters if they don’t deliver. Opinion | Pramila Jayapal Won’t Let the Biden Presidency Fail 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z We already knew Obama gravitated to stars but it was disillusioning to see it on such a grand scale last weekend. Opinion | Behold Barack Antoinette 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z The internal workings of the church are frequently complex and often disillusioning; everyday Catholics such as myself are often better advised to tend to their own immortal souls rather than the hierarchy’s arcane debates. Opinion | U.S. Catholic bishops show that pastoralism is out and partisanship is in 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z By contrast, Mr. Trump politicized mask wearing, further disillusioning business leaders who watched, dismayed, as arguments about masks erupted in their stores. How Corporate America Views President Biden 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z “Other than getting you angry, it’s also very disillusioning,” he said. Georgia official says Graham asked him about tossing ballots 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Joyce felt powerless to make things right and, to her mind, the entire legal system remains profoundly disillusioning. Where science enters the courtroom, the Daubert name looms large 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Through a bruising, often disillusioning process, they have acquired a better idea of what matters to them, and how to get it. ‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z He loved every day of being a father—their father—but life in his adopted country had been disillusioning. The Perverse Logic of GoFundMe Health Care 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s official now, the final curtain falling on what might be the most disillusioning individual season in Los Angeles sports history. LeBron James' disappointing Lakers season ends with a thud 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Another important factor is the accumulated, often disillusioning, experience of five Afghan elections and the preparations for a sixth. Afghanistan’s Elections Shrink in Face of Violence 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z We can draw either of two lessons from this disillusioning silence of freedom’s bell. Opinion | America still shouldn’t mind its own beeswax 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps he’s disillusioned with being at the Emirates because being at the Emirates is disillusioning. Manchester United spending a fortune to get Alexis Sánchez at 29 makes sense 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z It has defined both the best six months of his life and the disillusioning 29-year journey to relive it. Brian Holton, the forgotten Dodger of '88, struggles to live in the present 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z “It’s very disillusioning to live through the last six years here,” Smith told me. North Carolina’s Triumph Fails to Cover Cheating’s Stain 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Sound bite: Phelps described how “disillusioning” it was for clean competitors, including him and his U.S. teammates, to face competitors from abroad who were getting a boost from drugs. Cause Celeb: Michael Phelps says he never once competed in a clean Olympics 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Wall Street cheered him on, but Trump risks disillusioning his working-class voters. Trump attacks restrictions on big banks, retirement advisers 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z He was repeatedly turned down for jobs and housing, a deeply disillusioning experience. 'To Sir, With Love' author E.R. Braithwaite dies at 104 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z All of this is head-scratching, disillusioning, infuriating and perhaps even scary. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z As disillusioning as it may be, the reality of television is that much of it is not real. Watch Conan O'Brien Show Why You Should Never Trust TV Again 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z “A Chorus Line” had similar power in the seventies, but post-Watergate it was all about the disillusioning reality of life behind the curtain. “Hamilton” and the Hip-Hop Case for Progressive Heroism 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Acceding to their demands risks disillusioning Sunnis, who already accuse the government of being too beholden to the militias and who often see neighboring Sunni powerhouses like Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia as allies. With Saudi and Iranian tensions rising, Iraq's prime minister must walk a fine line 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z However, NTT’s share price later plunged and the broader stock bubble burst, disillusioning a generation of Japanese individual investors. Japan Post and Financial Units Soar in Trading Debut 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Maybe it all went back to the failure of Copenhagen in 2009, the collapse of climate legislation in the Senate in 2010, and the disillusioning, infuriating lack of climate leadership by Barack Obama. Exposing the climate denial lies: Bill McKibben, the truth and the fight against the fossil-fuel industry 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s difficult to tell children the truth without disillusioning them, to keep them on the right path in the face of adversity, Hamilton said. Grief, hope and prayer at vigil for Charleston shooting victims 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The long and disillusioning nightmare of the war in Vietnam had ended less than six months earlier with the fall of Saigon. Our Long Romance With ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z He found the deployment disillusioning; his men hunkered in a fortified compound, progressively demolishing the town around them as they did not have the manpower to protect themselves in a less-destructive fashion. Souvenirs of the War in Afghanistan: Many Troops Return With Physical and Mental Trauma For Apple and for others, this may be a bitter and disillusioning episode. If Apple's 2% Irish Tax Deal Is Illegal, Fines Could Be Billions 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Hendrix is so gentle, soft-spoken and poetically inclined toward love and universal good vibes that when he viciously attacks Etchingham with a telephone at a London nightclub, it comes as a sickening, disillusioning shock. ‘Jimi: All Is by My Side’ movie review: Behind the music with Hendrix as a star is born In that book, he wrote: “For me, it was a disillusioning time; I spent much of it in a state of crisis and doubt.” In 'Doctored,' Shortcomings of Health Care and Doctor 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Then, after about 15 increasingly disillusioning years of that, we suddenly embraced Boris Johnson: Bogus Man of the People. Among a crowd of political automatons, Nigel Farage is like a wacky neighbour in a sitcom 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z But what a long, painful, disillusioning road to get there. Greece: Premature accession 2014-04-23T10:00:20Z Actor Colin Firth, another Clegg backer, last month dismissed the deputy prime minister's record in government as "profoundly disillusioning". Celebs and politics: It rarely works 2014-02-20T11:48:45Z Of Obama, she said “we can see that he is ready to send whistleblowers to jail and bomb other states—this is a horrible example for Russian authorities and a disillusioning one for Russian youth.” Putin’s Foes Bail on Obama 2013-09-07T19:09:00Z My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience. How Much Advice Does Obama Need Before Making National-Security Decisions? 2013-03-04T17:05:25Z The experience was especially disillusioning for those hard-line Republicans who were elected in the tea party era. Has the ‘fiscal cliff’ fight changed how Washington works? 2013-01-03T02:03:00Z After the meeting, Mr. Joseph confided that his experience in Nicaragua had been disillusioning and said he would quit his job with Sae-A as soon as he found a replacement. Earthquake Relief Where Haiti Wasn’t Broken 2012-07-06T02:26:54Z He was passing through the bitter stage of disillusioning which Claud had prophesied for him. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z With exquisite humor he realized the alien aspect of such trust and love and faith in the disillusioning realities of life, so he veiled it all under the kindly cloak of a cracked-brained knight. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z As the most notable Bruins disappointment in this most disillusioning Bruins season, Joshua Smith said he was sorry for a lot more than that. Joshua Smith's career has not taken shape at UCLA 2012-02-13T04:20:05Z The unfinished, nonviolent revolution that ended Communism, giving way to a chaotic and disillusioning decade in the 1990s, and then stalling under Mr. Putin, seems to be resuming its unpredictable course. News Analysis: In Moscow, Echoes of the ?91 Communist Overthrow 2012-01-13T20:45:21Z His ideal had faded out before the first touch of disillusioning fact; hers persisted still, in spite of all the rudest assaults that the plainest facts could make upon it. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z Then will come a disillusioning, sharp and bitter. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z But within months, he said Obama was disillusioning the world by sticking to his predecessor George W. Bush's foreign policies, and the rhetoric from Caracas cranked up again. Obama: Iran and Cuba ties don't benefit Venezuela 2011-12-20T00:50:50Z Before entering upon the subject of Greece, let us cast a preliminary and disillusioning glance upon our two guides, the German and the Briton. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z I had no knowledge of stage life, and that first tourn�e was comprised of a series of shocks and surprises, most of them disillusioning. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Now, it would seem on the contrary that they devote all their efforts to disillusioning us. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z He had remarked on the way from Truckleford to London that he had been hit rather in the spirit of banter; but four weeks later he was in need of disillusioning. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z "For anyone inside the Edwards world, those who volunteered for him or gave money to him, to see their candidate end up facing criminal charges has to be a very disillusioning experience," he said. John Edwards, disgraced but determined, readies for new trial 2011-06-04T19:33:40Z The nation will awake one day to the disillusioning fact that peace and progress cannot be gauged by commercial prosperity alone. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z The halo of romance that once wreathed his classic brow had faded with the painful disillusioning which followed a thrashing his wife had given him. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z If I had succeeded in disillusioning him, who can tell what the consequences might have been? The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z The stroll through the grounds of the chateau in the hour before dinner should have brought the disillusioning process well into being. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z But within months, Chavez said Obama was disillusioning the world by following his Republican predecessor George W. Bush's foreign policies, and the rhetoric from Caracas cranked up again. Venezuela condemns "imperial" U.S. visa reprisal 2010-12-30T17:07:14Z "It's disillusioning," said Tom Burns, 79, a Korean War veteran and regular participant in this state's first-in-the-nation presidential primaries. N.H. voters share disbelief and disgust over the descent of a civic tradition 2010-10-27T15:20:00Z Mike Modano’s return to Dallas in a Detroit uniform was uncomfortable all around, writes Nicholas Cotsonika on Yahoo.com and reminded the Dallas Morning News’s Jean-Jacques Taylor of the disillusioning side of professional sports. Leading Off: Able to Take the Mound in a Single Bound 2010-10-15T17:50:00Z Ask a difficult question: expect a disillusioning answer. Be wary of the walkout 2010-10-03T18:00:00Z But I'd maintain that this year's demise is even more disillusioning -- and infuriating -- for M's fans. For the collapsing Mariners, it's starting to smell a lot like 2008 2010-05-18T15:45:00Z This is the best I can do to describe the disillusioning experience of missing out on a World Cup Roster spot. Inside and Out of the United States World Cup Team 2010-05-13T13:27:00Z In Iraq, the first post-Saddam leaders relied on the bluntest tools of intimidation to defeat their rivals and rise to the top of the political system, disillusioning the population. The Global Decline In Democracy 2010-03-13T00:03:00Z It was disillusioning to go to the place where there were many of them. Geography and Plays But perhaps you'd better begin disillusioning him at once, for I'm discovering dreadful possibilities in my nature—now the Hillhouse inhibitions seem remote. The Book of Susan A Novel She had a disillusioning way of baring facts in these communings, which showed life to her very honestly but without romance or glamour. The House of Fulfilment In regard to this point, too, there has been considerable disillusioning in recent years. Naturalism And Religion No disillusioning has come to destroy the old hero-worship, but with even more intensity each life clings to that one who embodies its aspirations. Training the Teacher The experience of the disillusioning years has since caused me to modify my opinions; but Paragot's boastfulness has not lessened him in my eyes. The Belovéd Vagabond There was no sign of life about, and it might have served as the refuge of the Sleeping Princess, but a nearer inspection would probably have been disillusioning. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia What if his disillusioning had been a little less complete? The Sign of the Spider It was disillusioning to discover that Hawkes had taken him in mostly because he would be useful in a robbery. Starman's Quest They are a disillusioning mirror in which I see myself a million times. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath "Let me explain," continued Dudley, laughing at the thought of disillusioning the airmen. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Judith reached the Top in the grey, disillusioning light of early dawn. Judith of the Cumberlands An inherent contempt for women, due partly to qualities of temperament and partly to the accident of a disillusioning marriage, made him address them always as if he were speaking from a platform. Virginia There is no more disillusioning place in the world to land in by daytime. A Tramp's Notebook But what is the use or humanity of disillusioning an author by correcting an error forty years old. The Gypsies It is only an unusual gift of affectionate good-will that enables mature men, after rough and disillusioning experiences in public life, to maintain without sentimentality a genuine and persistent interest in the welfare of others. Human Traits and their Social Significance Read your poets and study your romances, but delve into no disillusioning guide-books. The Lure of the Mask It must be confessed, however, that Catie found both of these deeds a little disillusioning. The Brentons We have had our disillusioning; yours is to come. The Mystics A Novel This effort to open Rochester University to women, on top of a very full and worrisome year, was so taxing and so disillusioning that she became seriously ill. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian Her mother, thinking the experience would not be harmful, let her accept the position, and as a result she had two of the most disillusioning and hard months of her life. Ten American Girls From History Illicit experiences may have been so disillusioning, owing to the disaffecting nature of the consorts, that an attitude of pessimism and misanthropy or misogyny is built up. Applied Eugenics The five years of Liberal Government had been disillusioning to many others besides Belloc and the Chesterton brothers. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Her own cruel disillusioning—her own unbearable sense of loss—swept over her afresh; her voice rose again, and again broke hysterically. The Mystics A Novel Ye gods, what a winter it has been—disillusioning, dull, hideously and achingly disappointing! My War Experiences in Two Continents Still, after making every allowance, her disillusioning remained complete. Enter Bridget So there was no end to this thing, no awakening and disillusioning, none of the disappointment and dreariness which is likely to attend the translating of a dream into work-a-day life. The Good Comrade On the pianoforte the delicate episode sounded gratefully; with the thick riotous orchestration came a disillusioning transformation. Visionaries Private letters are often disillusioning, or betray the presence of the skeleton of the family, unhappiness or disgrace. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada They came to her direct from a world, her sister's world, which she now vaguely felt to be cheap, shallow, disillusioning. His Second Wife It would go far towards disillusioning those many who seem to feel that they do not have to take too seriously a government because they have helped to create it. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. Science, which once was hailed as a deliverer, is now perceived to bring only the disillusioning knowledge of our limitations. Humanly Speaking This evasion was more disillusioning than downright confession. The Seeker Her development would not be quite as agreeable to witness; process of disillusioning her, little by little, until he had undermined himself sufficiently to make the final break with her very easy—for her. The Firing Line But he gave nothing in return save the appeal of weakness, the rather disillusioning charm of discovery and novelty. Captivity He left, and on the street-car immersed himself in some disillusioning calculations. Success A Novel The moment for disillusioning her had manifestly come. The Burglar and the Blizzard A Christmas Story It was the tolerant Gabriella who spoke—the Gabriella of disillusioning experience and a clear vision of life—not the impassioned idealist of the 'nineties. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage We come upon him at last—luckily for us we were not actually following him—after two years of wonderful but rather disillusioning adventure in mid-Asia and all Africa. Truxton King A Story of Graustark Happily, the disillusioning fog had come upon us by degrees. The Siege of Kimberley He would have had some urbane, cynical and delightfully disillusioning remarks to offer. Mince Pie The old ideas, expressed by Daudet, that the facts of sex are ugly and disillusioning, and that they shock the mind of the young, are both alike entirely false. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Flushed and smiling, with her red mouth gurgling delightedly, and a white wool lamb clasped in her arms, the adorable child was certainly worth any seesaw of destiny, any disillusioning experience of marriage. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Browning's optimism then, since we must continue to use this somewhat inadequate word, was a result of experience—experience which is for some mysterious reason generally understood in the sense of sad or disillusioning experience. Robert Browning The necessity, so unexpectedly laid upon her, of defending the right deflected her mind from dwelling too bitterly on her own disillusioning. The Wild Olive Rather, I felt it was something I had always known, yet something inexpressibly flat and disillusioning. The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue Words like these Bettina was continually listening for from her poet-idol, but she heard instead only the disillusioning echo of her own enthusiasms. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Doomed to pay without respite an eternal price for nothing but a fruitless search and a bitter disillusioning. Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties It is undeniable that, to all who care for progress, actual experience of democratic representative Government is very disillusioning. Proposed Roads to Freedom After so much and such disillusioning experience with it, he still had a romantic feeling about the human body; a sense that finer things dwelt in it than could be explained by anatomy. The Song of the Lark It is always disillusioning to inspect the unheroic details of the life of that favorite figure with romancers—the soldier of fortune. The Fortune Hunter Their appearance at all events was disillusioning enough. His Hour Mrs. Arnold has not yet made that first visit East which is said by her Californian friends to be so disillusioning, and the old home still hovers, like a beautiful mirage, on the receding horizon. In Exile and Other Stories The dawn was growing from its first moment of mysterious beauty into a grey disillusioning light. The History of David Grieve There were other clothes in her trunk that she needed very much, and she seemed no nearer a place to stay than when she arrived in the rain, on that first disillusioning morning. The Song of the Lark Doctor of human nature—every man feels himself entitled to that degree from the university of disillusioning experience. The Glands Regulating Personality Standing at the gate, an astonishing figure, still in her evening frock, looking haggard and old in the gray, disillusioning light of early morning, was Lydia Sessions. The Power and the Glory Only a few persons showed any sympathy to sweeten for me the bitterness of such a disillusioning. The Social Cancer Just at the moment Gordon was growing peevishly dogmatic in the reiteration of his ideals, she had suffered a physical disillusioning and begun to tire of poetry. The One Woman "A woman's—a girl's—disillusioning is a very sad comedy—it should never have an audience." The Masquerader And the collector's Goanese assistant did the rest of the disillusioning. The Ivory Trail I am so glad he is thin instead of fat; thinness is not nearly so disillusioning. The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors She was like no phase of the many phases in which he had known her; she was a Rachael who had never known the sordid, the disillusioning side of life. The Heart of Rachael His voice had not been drowned in the roar of the breakers of this ocean of flesh, but he had met bitter disillusioning. The One Woman It was a little disillusioning to discover, as during her first weeks in the new work she did discover, that almost no duties whatever would be required of her. Saturday's Child I questioned the guides and, through an interpreter, the curator of the Museum, and from them I learned the lamentably disillusioning facts in this case. Europe Revised And Mr. Root's next experience, in the United States Senate, was disillusioning. The Mirrors of Washington Maurice was the first to feel the disillusioning shudder of reality; simultaneously, the remembrance returned to him of what he had come intending to tell her.—He loosened her arms. Maurice Guest To have house and Bible shrink so, under the disillusioning corrected angle, is loss-for a moment. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) After the first glow of attainment, this initial view was, I will confess, disillusioning. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan And very soon came that other sensation, so disillusioning, that all else was crowded out. Beyond When the tumult of my disillusioning was past, my mind grew clearer. The Works of Max Beerbohm But poor Soames!—doomed to pay without respite an eternal price for nothing but a fruitless search and a bitter disillusioning.... Seven Men |
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