Verb Working at that store for six months was enough to disillusion me about retail work. we were disillusioned when we saw how the movie star acted in real life
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The result is a moving group portrait of disillusion and resilience. Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2022 Otherwise, avoidable crises can quickly derail strategy, devour leadership time and disillusion employees. Noah Barsky, Forbes, 11 July 2022 And yet, whatever celebrations take place this week, will be muted and take place against the backdrop of disillusion and divide. Fox News Staff, Fox News, 4 July 2022 The artist hasn’t necessarily earned such an extreme rape scene, instead treating it as a device by which to make her point about the way a blissfully naive child learns to confront the dangers and disillusion of the adult world. Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 June 2022 It’s also because the U.S. empire itself breeds distrust, anger, and disillusion abroad. Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 17 May 2022 The amount of hyperbole and disillusion about the metaverse is astounding. Nina Xiang, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022 And as with any religion, this opens up a host of dramatic situations — of apostasy and betrayal, doubt and disillusion.Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022 In 1932 Democrats used national disillusion with big business to create a powerful new political coalition that gave them control of the White House for 20 years and a virtual stranglehold on Congress that lasted more than half a century. Arthur Herman, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
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There are men who hustle, men who disillusion their women, and men who lie — to themselves as much as others.BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022 The first step, which the new museum does occasionally and imperfectly, is to disillusion people and show them the real, messy, historical truth of the business.Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022 But if the affair was all in her imagination, why should distance disillusion her? Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022 Taken together, the developments threaten to disillusion African Americans, Latinos, young people and independents, all of whom played a vital role in building a coalition that gave Democrats control of Congress and the White House last year. Steve Peoples, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2021 Taken together, the developments threaten to disillusion African Americans, Latinos, young people and independents, all of whom played a vital role in building a coalition that gave Democrats control of Congress and the White House last year. Steve Peoples, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2021 Cynicism fed by politicians of both parties may also disillusion would-be voters. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 May 2021 The goal is to disillusion us about ourselves, and to build kinship. Gaiutra Bahadur, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 2020 Those criticisms only became more acute in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis as many people, disillusioned with capitalism, pointed fingers squarely at banks and other financial institutions whose executives are mainstays at Davos. Isabella Steger, Quartz, 3 June 2020 See More