(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.
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.