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disillusionment
1. It was just how these mundane things in life, the basics, the mortgage, left them – Janetta in all her expressions of discontentment and disillusionment – struggling
2. bring them lasting happiness? Does their desire to be loved and be happy cause them to believe that another human can satisfy all of their needs in just the way they need them to be satisfied? Don’t these expectations lead to eventual disillusionment?
3. deceit, disillusionment, suffering, and truth
4. He immediately saw hypocrisy, deceit, disillusionment, suffering, and truth
5. I understood, in my exalted disillusionment, that if I wanted to get my desires, I should try to get the means for its attainment
6. “But that is all over now,” Tony assures me when he sees the disillusionment on my face
7. But when she saw him enter the house in the middle of Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s noisy escort and she saw how he had been mistreated by the rigors of exile, made old by age and oblivion, dirty with sweat and dust, smelling like a herd, ugly, with his left arm in a sling, she felt faint with disillusionment
8. He spent many hours in the hot room watching how the hard sheets of metal, worked by the colonel with the inconceivable patience of disillusionment, were slowly being converted into golden scales
9. He needed so much concentration to link scales, fit minute rubies into the eyes, laminate gills, and put on fins that there was not the smallest empty moment left for him to fill with his disillusionment of the war
10. It was useless torture because even at that time he already had a terror of everything around him and he was prepared to be frightened at anything he met in life: women on the street, who would ruin his blood; the women in the house, who bore children with the tail of a pig; fighting cocks, who brought on the death of men and remorse for the rest of one’s life; firearms, which with the mere touch would bring down twenty years of war; uncertain ventures, which led only to disillusionment and madness--everything, in short, everything that God had created in His infinite goodness and that the devil had perverted
11. She was seeing Colonel Aureliano Buendía once more as she had seen him in the light of a lamp long before the wars, long before the desolation of glory and the exile of disillusionment, that remote dawn when he went to her bedroom to give the first command of his life: the command to give him love
12. I could choose the road of pain, disillusionment, and inevitable death,
13. She however had a destiny to fulfill, one more in a 7,000-year history of destinies, some fulfilled but many more cut short or ending in tragedy or disillusionment
14. Post-blast emotionalism, surcharged TV debates on the threat to Modi’s life and consequent disillusionment with administrative measures began to gather momentum
15. The AAP’s abdication from governmental responsibility caused widespread disillusionment
16. Their disillusionment burst forth in howls of rage
17. Credit simmered with disillusionment as he stood beneath the salt cedars
18. Before his disillusionment and resentment turn into
19. The sour taste of disillusionment cooled the easy cheer from Life’s dining companions
20. However, to his disillusionment it was never as easy it was shown to be in the movies to fence stolen items
21. Disillusionment and pain took up residence in
22. ' I'd censor as obscene, for fear the public might discover their current abuse and future disillusionment
23. When, as so often happens, disillusionment and unhappiness arrive, people often realize that it is another type of beauty they are looking for, and not material comfort and wealth
24. of reasons: Rita, the disillusionment of a family he never truly had, but
25. Here his disillusionment begins
26. Coleridge's picture was disillusionment, but not so great a shock, because I have loved him less
27. In the first excitement of the start she had not noticed it, but during those woeful days of disillusionment at Baker's she saw it with an ever-growing clearness; and since Sunday, since the day she found a smiling young gentleman ready to talk German to her and answer questions, she was perfectly aware that she had only to close her hand and her victims would squeeze into any shape she liked
28. In 1789 he abandoned the army out of disillusionment and returned to his
29. disillusionment with conditions in France
30. And then the final stage of disillusionment when the desirer gets weary of his desire and wants to get rid of it
31. A search round Anderson’s home town reveals more disillusionment with the current government than he imagined
32. Not content to live over in memory the high hopes that were theirs when life was new--because of the gap between expectation and realization--they close their eyes to the new disillusionment they are heading for, and think only to shut out their sense of inadequacy in their present association by steering full steam ahead for another encounter, in which the odds are even more against them
33. At the point in the story where Caroline despairs that she is trapped in her marriage she is experiencing the first stage of transition: disillusionment
34. Disillusionment - recognition that approaches of the current level of awareness are not only not working but are insufficient to deal with the individual's problems There is a saying that madness consists of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
35. Facing: It would seem at first that there is nothing anyone could or should do to encourage disillusionment
36. There must be a sufficient level of disillusionment with the coping strategies available to the individual at his or her present level of awareness
37. (This violent disillusionment is generally to be expected in young men in the prime of life, sound of wind and limb, who will soon become fathers of families and directors of banks
38. Her bitter disillusionment with the Group of Four hadn’t been enough to make her doubt her own vocation, but it had been enough to make her delay that final step of commitment
39. And Melanie, bursting into tears of self-condemnation, fled the room, leaving Scarlett to a tearless bed, with wounded pride, disillusionment and jealousy for bedfellows
40. the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain
41. I’m too old to shoulder the burden of constant lies that go with living in polite disillusionment
42. This had been quite the year for heartbreak and disillusionment
43. Prince Andrew looked at the laughing Speranski with astonishment, regret, and disillusionment
44. Where was his spleen, his contempt for life, his disillusionment? Pierre was the only person to whom he made up his mind to speak openly; and to him he told all that was in his soul
45. 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
46. ” When it was already too late to make up for the past, she even suffered the disillusionment of knowing that he was not as tenacious as she had supposed, and from time to time she would still feel a belated longing for a letter that never arrived
47. She had barely turned the corner into maturity, free at last of illusions, when she began to detect the disillusionment of never having been what she had dreamed of being when she was young, in the Park of the Evangels
48. In this way she could still keep them, and keep herself from disillusionment
49. But till I am thirty, I know that my youth will triumph over everything—every disillusionment, every disgust with life
50. I can't find another word to describe it, because he is not a man who falls into disillusionment, and he disdained to be occupied with work at that time