(n.) The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clive Palmer told Guardian Australia he did not know if this reflected a move towards his party, or voters’ disenchantment with the government.
(2) The Nuit debout has some aspects of a May 68 for the internet age, but with a major difference: the revolutionary students of half a century ago came of age during the trente glorieuses , the 30 glorious years of postwar economic growth, and wanted to crack open a conservative society; those of 2016 are, on the contrary, the children of 30 years of high unemployment, economic gloom and disenchantment with the way representative democracy works.
(3) Back in the town, Pierre, a pensioner, insisted that local disenchantment with Hollande and the Socialists had been exaggerated, but admitted: "We had such high hopes that even though François Hollande sold himself as Monsieur Normal, he would be more than that.
(4) The transcripts, obtained by New Matilda and provided to Guardian Australia, show: disenchantment among workers with the viability of settling refugees on Nauru fear among staff of an uncontrollable riot, like the one on Manus – where locals “absolutely beat the shit out of large numbers of people and killed a man” the immigration department asked security staff for “anything you’ve got on Save the Children” the information used to sack 10 Save the Children workers was “probability”, not evidence, and “not something you’d rely on in court” the protests Save the Children Staff were accused of fomenting, “would have happened anyway”, and the department does not know if the staff sacked “were the right 10 people”.
(5) Rome in The Great Beauty Released 2013, directed by Paolo Sorrentino Facebook Twitter Pinterest I can’t think of any city so drenched with infatuated love, and yet also a kind of disillusion and disenchantment, as the Rome of Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty .
(6) One in 25 voters spoiled their ballot papers yesterday, amid growing disenchantment with mainstream politics – although turnout was high at 66%.
(7) Signalling disenchantment with the Greek negotiations, the officials voiced deep pessimism that a deal can be struck.
(8) The continuing dissonance inside the educational environment and between education and clinical practice are proposed as contributory factors in the processes that can lead to student frustration and disenchantment.
(9) "My duty is to bring Europe out of its lethargy, to reduce people's disenchantment with it."
(10) The space for independent journalism has been squeezed by four years of disruption, terrorism concerns, a struggling economy, and disenchantment with the media from authorities and the public,” it reports.
(11) A historical overview helps to explain these difficulties, as nurses have tended to accept the views of psychotherapists uncritically, and have used scales developed for clients in counselling with people who are physically ill. Methodological difficulties combined with the results of studies demonstrating low levels of empathic ability in nurses have culminated in disenchantment with this topic.
(12) He said: “The debate is demonstrating that there is growing disenchantment with the over-centralised nature of the British state and the dominance of London and the south-east of England.” Cole said that with the three main British political party leaders now accepting that Scotland ought to have extra powers, the same argument should apply to other parts of the UK.
(13) High stool frequencies in some series led to disenchantment with the straight anastomosis and to the development of various reservoir procedures to increase rectal capacity and thereby reduce frequency.
(14) Everyone accepts that there is disillusionment with politics but nobody seems willing to tackle the old-fashioned ways of doing things that create this disenchantment.
(15) Voters in both states on Tuesday approved amendments legalising the recreational use of marijuana, historic decisions that reflect growing disenchantment across the US with the decades-old "war on drugs".
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The fans can be heard voicing their growing disenchantment with the direction in which the 65-year-old is taking the club.
(17) On the detention centre island of Manus Island and Nauru, refugees report widespread disenchantment after more than three years of detention without trial or charge, and another dashed hope of resettlement.
(18) The poor stone clearance rates reported by the Dornier National Biliary Lithotripsy Study has led to disenchantment with biliary lithotripsy.
(19) After two psychology degrees, a directorship of a Vancouver art centre, and teaching at an "alternative high school" in New Jersey, his knowledge of Estonian and disenchantment with mainstream psychiatry led him to find work at the Baltic desk of Radio Free Europe , the US-funded service that beamed western views – typically not unadjacent to those of the CIA – into eastern bloc states.
(20) That disenchantment led Pakistan to seek Chinese military aid.
Disillusion
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
(v. t.) To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.
Example Sentences:
(1) She devoured political science texts, took evening classes at Goldsmiths college, and performed at protests and fundraisers, but became disillusioned.
(2) I believe that it is too valuable to be destroyed in a fit of resentment, pique or disillusion.
(3) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
(4) The Lewinsky affair did not leave him disillusioned and Engskov's eyes brighten as he recalls his time in Washington: "It was an idealistic time.
(5) There is a growing fear among Labour pollsters that the some of the vote Labour harvested from disillusioned Liberal Democrats has now moved on to either to the Greens or to Ukip.
(6) "In the conclusion of the tragedy by Chekohov, everyone is disappointed, disillusioned, embittered, heartbroken, but alive."
(7) "The impact can be that the individual becomes disillusioned or traumatised, it can impact on health or on relationships with partners and colleagues," Moutou says.
(8) For the growing numbers of voters disillusioned by Westminster politics, the prospect of an SNP bloc in parliament providing a pressure from the left on Labour is an attractive one.
(9) A mansions tax would appeal to the disillusioned left of the party.
(10) This includes the prevention of legal action against the doctors if the treatment fails or if the transsexual later is disillusioned or regrets what has been done.
(11) Underlying factors for this disillusion with the car include road congestion and spiralling costs of driving, particularly for the young: car insurance has increased by 80% for young people in the past two years, for example, compared with a 20% rise for those aged 50, while numbers of those aged 17-19 who take the driving test have dropped by a fifth in the past five years.
(12) And foolish, too, to deny that across Europe these elections will be a major opportunity for single-issue and extremist parties – not always the same thing –to make a play for the support of insecure, disillusioned and plain angry voters in the 28 member states.
(13) Instead, when we meet her at the beginning of the series, Nyborg is more concerned with moving house – presumably supplying viewers with shots of a variety of stylish new light fittings and perplexing floor plans to obsess over – than a political party with which she is increasingly disillusioned.
(14) BTTF was largely aimed at kids who didn't know much about their parents' generation (and that was the source of its box office strength), but Peggy Sue was very much seen through the eyes of the disillusioned divorcee, played by Kathleen Turner.
(15) Caine’s Guardian reader may be decrepit and disillusioned but still oozes wit and discerning taste.
(16) The government’s hold over main-stream media proprietors has meant that disillusioned liberal commentators who may have supported Erdogan’s reform efforts in the past have found themselves out of a job.
(17) "There's a significant proportion of the Labour party - 70 or 80 MPs - that are so disillusioned with the leadership of the party that they'd prefer to be in opposition than in coalition.
(18) The latter was disillusioning for Patterson, a lifelong indie music fan, especially when the paper published what she terms a “tits ’n’ cocaine” cover for a feature on the Miami scene.
(19) He had also grown disillusioned with his own role as a propagandist, his contorted attempt to distinguish between 'honest' and 'dishonest' propaganda evidently having failed.
(20) While many employees feel disillusioned and “oppressed” as they feel their jobs and responsibilities are being usurped by Charles’ aides, she claims.