(v. t.) To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ukip has provided a protest vote for disenchanted Tories , just as – up until the moment when David Cameron promised Nick Clegg a rose garden – the Lib Dems provided an alternative to Labour.
(2) Is Sisi’s UK visit going to fill my car with gas?’ A lot of people are increasingly disenchanted with the government, simply because it is failing to live up to its own illusions of grandeur.” Among the disenchanted are thousands of workers in the critical textiles sector who are striking over pay and conditions.
(3) The other, bigger worry, though, is among the disenchanted still living in deprived areas in Dundee, Edinburgh and pockets elsewhere in Lothian and Lanarkshire, but primarily in Glasgow.
(4) This struck a loud, clanging chord with a disenchanted British public – half of whom heard the speech – and 93% of those approved of its message, which when boiled down was just an appeal for greater individual effort to win the war.
(5) As one of the disenchanted Labour voters described by MacAskill, I have had many polemics put my way: the most persuasive have been George Galloway's "Just Say Naw" and a speech on the implications of Scottish independence for business by Rupert Soames, CEO of the Scottish firm Aggreko.
(6) He began as a conventional Hollywood liberal, but was soon disenchanted by the communists in the movie industry and what seemed to him the unduly leftist leadership of the American Federation of Labour.
(7) But those speculating this might be the start of a long-feared "strike" by disenchanted investors were somewhat let down: a regular government debt auction at the height of the political confusion was twice oversubscribed.
(8) That’s a very hard political sell, especially to a disenchanted public.
(9) Miszkowski, who sold his house to run for Labor in the 2007 federal election but became disenchanted with the party after Kevin Rudd forgot his name at a press conference, was also at the party, Guardian Australia has confirmed.
(10) Not content with picking up votes from disenchanted Conservatives, Farage advanced into Labour's terroritory on Friday by calling on large companies to sign up to a tough code of conduct to prevent them exploiting workers on zero-hours contracts.
(11) The recent "multi-party parliamentary election" – which was devoid of meaningful participation by opposition groups – and the formation of the new Syrian government by a member of the ruling Ba'ath party, have in particular disenchanted Iranian officials with Assad's strategy for a political solution.
(12) Thanks to the formation of the Coalition, Labour should be able to present itself as the only serious destination for voters disenchanted with the incumbent government.
(13) The disenchanted working class is the holy grail for vote-catchers, although no one actually seems to like its members.
(14) In 1950 he published a novel based on his Dartmouth visit, The Disenchanted, and later described the fiasco in his highly readable autobiography, Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince (1981).
(15) Zawahiri’s speech, delivered in Arabic, which is opaque to most Indians, is being seen as having far more to do with bolstering confidence in al-Qaida’s own ranks and fighting off the steep growth of the maverick Isis, than it is about recruiting new volunteers from Indian’s disenchanted Muslims.
(16) The front-page lead by Seumas Milne read: "A confidential strategic plan drawn up by Tony Blair's closest advisers warns that New Labour is not ready for government ... Disenchanted leftwing activists are likely to see it as confirmation that Blair has a near-presidential agenda."
(17) He concluded that many Greeks were disenchanted with their western allies and inclined to favour Russia.
(18) Narice Bernard, a 44-year-old businessman from East Lothian, who described himself as a disenchanted Labour supporter, was one of the campaign founders, and said he was frustrated by the calibre of the candidates , who were all associated with Labour’s defeat.
(19) More than half of Ukip's support in the European elections came from disenchanted Conservative voters, a poll commissioned by Lord Ashcroft has found .
(20) It is a prequel of sorts to the film, in that it fleshes out "why Calvero has nightmares, why he is so disenchanted with his career, with the public", she said.
Illusion
Definition:
(n.) An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
(n.) Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour.
(n.) A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.
(n.) A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) By using various colors, it is possible to tattoo a nipple-areola complex onto the breast that will have an illusion of projection.
(2) Apnea monitoring did not prevent, and in fact perpetrated the illusion of SIDS in this infant.
(3) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(4) Cocaine produces simple hallucinations, PCP can produce complex hallucinations analogous to a paranoid psychosis, while LSD produces a combination of hallucinations, pseudohallucinations and illusions.
(5) They must be kept secret because publication would destroy the illusion of a royal neutrality no one in power thinks exists any more.
(6) They impose the illusion of order on a chaotic life; they cement our place within and commitment to a collective.
(7) The preliminary experiments described here suggest that tilt aftereffects and illusions induced by projected slides of tilted real-object scenes have angular functions similar to that induced by a line grating.
(8) These variants, which yielded a robust illusion, included dihedral angles in place of the arrowheads of the classical pattern.
(9) During vibration of the depressor muscles with the mandible in its rest position the subjects underestimated an opening movement, but fixation of the mandible caused no illusions of movement.
(10) Stimuli were circular beams of light projected on screens (Delboef type of illusion).
(11) The director John Hillcoat and I were under no illusions.
(12) When the shaft is shortened and reaches neither of the vertices of the two pairs of wings, a reversed Müller-Lyer illusion is observed: a shaft between inward-pointing wings appears to be longer than a shaft between the outward-pointing wings.
(13) An illusion is something done one way that looks the other, like if you put a mirror in front of a pencil so the pencil looks like it's somewhere else.
(14) The subjects were asked to relate dreams, thoughts, or other mental illusions experienced during G-LOC episodes.
(15) While Yarmolenko stayed quiet, Stepanenko left no illusions as to his interpretation.
(16) The count of publications on geometric-optical illusions and the bibliography of extant books on the topic are brought up to date.
(17) The illusion is of watching a prima ballerina dancing only for you.
(18) Is Sisi’s UK visit going to fill my car with gas?’ A lot of people are increasingly disenchanted with the government, simply because it is failing to live up to its own illusions of grandeur.” Among the disenchanted are thousands of workers in the critical textiles sector who are striking over pay and conditions.
(19) Four experiments were conducted to investigate the role of "large" squares on the occurrence of assimilation and contrast in the Baldwin illusion.
(20) It creates a dangerous illusion that simply by reducing sugar intake, one can eradicate obesity.