He is old enough to have felt the disillusion of lost causes such as the Spanish Civil War and the left's brief flirtation with Communism. |
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My personal disillusion was echoed back in grey London where I read numerous grumblings about the Riviera. |
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Obviously measures have been taken to rectify the situation, but there is still an impression of disillusion, if not disenchantment. |
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And as a result, in place of the kindled hopes and artificially aroused excitement comes disillusion and apathy. |
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When the talent is gone, the child is more likely to feel disillusion and emptiness than a normal child. |
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And now we both feel liberated to love the music again that once only seemed to represent personal disillusion and disappointment. |
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He's a successful, distinguished photographer who has reached the ebb tide of disillusion in his life and career. |
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Barely conceivable though this is, the deepening political disillusion may come to be a force to be reckoned with. |
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But this light relief could not obliterate the all-pervading sense of crisis, disillusion and frustration in the country. |
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If the participation mode is adopted, the farmers will be kept away from the disappointment or disillusion. |
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Second, even if they do, because of the wall of cynicism and disillusion, they don't believe we will achieve them. |
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My disillusion was growing and I was relieved when they laid me off with a generous severance. |
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Is that wait of an extra couple of months going to disillusion people about this new democracy? |
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His stillborn book might soon disillusion Katherine Hunt and others like her. |
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Better disillusion the poor idiot before he wraps himself up in grief and does something stupid. |
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Glenn refused because he was afraid he might disillusion the boys who took him for a model. |
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I hate that job, and luckily the manager doesn't know how I disillusion customers so much, otherwise he'd definitely fire me. |
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It is what the people expect and its failure to govern decisively is the source of popular disillusion with Scottish democracy. |
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If she backs down from the fight with Washington, that might reassure business interests but disillusion his core supporters. |
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There is a tidal wave of disillusion in Scotland at the succession of disasters that have marred devolution's infancy. |
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The recent tilt towards Russia partly reflects the recovery of a degree of Russian power under Putin, but also growing disillusion with the West. |
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It's a rich and suggestive work that contrasts the middle-aged disillusion of the professor with his memories of his favorite student. |
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So, unbalancing her in one direction are forces of self-disgust and disillusion. |
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The SNP, they claim, is being punished unduly for the general disillusion with home rule. |
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His war paintings brilliantly express the destruction and disillusion of the participants. |
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Tycho's awe at astronomers' predictions of celestial events turned to disillusion as his own observational skills developed. |
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In one fell swoop fuel has been added to the fire of community disillusion with its political appointees. |
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Bayer's disillusion was so strong that Holzhäuser even offered up the player for a quick-fire sale four months before the end of his contract. |
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It is a proxy, not for globalisation, but for disillusion with the system. |
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At a time of doubt and disillusion, her unswerving belief in her own convictions proved to be her most important characteristic. |
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My second big disillusion came six or seven years later with a group called La folle entreprise. |
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Despite the widespread practice of electoral democracy, there is considerable disillusion amongst citizens the world over about the responsiveness of formal politics. |
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While I marvel at this book's heaviness and complexity, I too am a product of the disillusion climate, and I can't pipe down when I feel I'm being oppressed. |
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My project is not depicting of a dramatic scene but rather creating a lustful atmosphere that arrives at an account of disillusion. |
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In essence, our disillusion stems from the fact that we equate changes of speed in modes of transport with the speed of technical progress. |
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Ende's poignant text reads like a journal of displacement and disillusion. |
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The Warren Report was and remains a symptom of disillusion with whatever the government says. |
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The downstairs portion of the Democratic base is increasingly beset by debt and disillusion. |
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The sloping baseline indicates melancholy, disillusion, and loss of innocence. |
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Disappointment if not disillusion is inevitable, particularly in light of the current economic meltdown. |
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If the travelling contingent was admirable, the vast expanses of empty seats elsewhere merely highlighted disillusion within the Hibs following. |
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The political party, however, has been able to tap into disillusion in some areas, taking advantage of the disgusting anti-refugee bilge pumped out by the gutter press. |
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The longer this phenomenon continues, the more likely the disillusion about these skills will grow, probably with long-term drastic consequences. |
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Ten years later, the scourge of war once again devastated the world, bringing destruction and disillusion in its wake. |
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Well, I would hate to disillusion anyone, but magazines have a long lead time, so what hopefully is springtime for the reader is still the chili of winter for the writer. |
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Indeed they can become counterproductive by fanning the flames of disillusion and cynicism. |
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The individual, spinning in a worldwide web of billions of bits and bytes, might by the end of his surfing adventures be overwhelmed, alone, lonely, lost the victim of worldwide disillusion. |
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But there are other things as well: frustration, disappointment, disillusion sometimes verging on despair as to how and when DAB will experience its real breakthrough on the European market. |
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Some social workers think that the presence of a team is more important during the disillusion phase than during the idyll phase when the passionate nature of the meeting keeps them at a distance. |
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My disillusion with Green party politics began soon after trying to make sense of its manifesto in relation to real life as it was, and not Narnia. |
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In addition to the disillusion felt by the public, who were expecting a formal commitment from the political authorities, there is a degree of scepticism towards the very real risk presented by climate change. |
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Such failure to understand the workings of high politics and such a denial of geopolitical realities are signs of new and serious disillusion to come. |
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A war that drags on in one form or another will finally provoke human behaviour that demonstrates a degree of disillusion fraught with serious consequences. |
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Nonetheless, disillusion with dams has grown and today it is widespread. |
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Reality will not be restrained thereby from bringing cruel disillusion! |
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Information campaigns targeting groups at risk within the European Union, in the candidate States and in third countries will help to prevent much disillusion and human tragedy. |
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How he explains this disillusion and what he would like to suggest in order to try to overcome it in a common future effort by the Assembly and the Committee of Ministers. |
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My work manifests this disillusion, this feeling of loss and anxiety. |
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Despite the disillusion, and even though he is busy preparing his Masters dissertation, Mohamed did not give up following the news about political protests and the repression they provoke. |
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The Danish and French referendum results and the reactions elsewhere, notably in Britain and Germany, suggest widespread confusion and disillusion about the European process. |
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The opportunity offered by the present hiatus of relative calm should be grasped before disillusion takes hold of the more extremist groups, which are clearly lying in wait for the further problems that are bound to arise. |
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Waugh's elation at his transfer soon descended into disillusion as he failed to find opportunities for active service. |
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Death involves disintegration, disillusion, and destruction, and I believe a true definition of death should include those codependent three systems-total non-function and the condition of destruction and disintegration. |
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It is something we must review if we are to reassert our democratic credibility in this, the 50th year since the signing of the Treaty of Rome, for if we fail to keep up with the times, public disillusion will grow. |
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All My Sons, the story of a war hero who comes home to find that his father is a munitions racketeer, reflected the disillusion of postwar America. |
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With what right then, can the ego dare to talk against boredom, when it itself in its depths becomes tediousness, bitterness, disillusion, disenchantment, frustration and boredom? |
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Working at that store for six months was enough to disillusion me about retail work. |
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