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Example sentences for "disillusioned"

Lexicographically close words:
dishpan; dishwasher; dishwashing; dishwater; disillusion; disillusioning; disillusionment; disillusionments; disillusions; disinclination
  1. Italy has grown old, and Ariosto is the genius of a tired, world-weary, disillusioned age.

  2. Above the open volume of cloistered consolation, with its disillusioned counsels of timid patience, the Faun Man smiled from his silver frame.

  3. How far will she be chastened and disillusioned by the end of this war?

  4. So that quite soon after the war this new disillusioned Germany will be contemplating the imperial graces of the present Crown Prince.

  5. Never were a people so disillusioned as the Germans must already be, never has a nation been called upon for so complete a mental readjustment.

  6. How greatly we have been disillusioned in all this and how bitterly we have been taught that life is not so much a drifting with the tide as making brave headway against it, we all know well enough to-day.

  7. Where it has failed in individual cases, as it is bound to fail, it has left those thus disillusioned without any sound basis for their faith and generally has driven them away from religion altogether.

  8. Even the disillusioned official was amused by the difference between the two latest occupants of No.

  9. It is possible that Faust may be the history of an initiation by a disillusioned Illuminatus.

  10. Yet disillusioned as the "Eques a Capite Galeato" appears to have been with regard to Illuminism, he still retained his allegiance to Freemasonry.

  11. It would redeem the torpid, disillusioned Italian, who was brave enough, as Napoleon's campaigns had proved, but required much to nerve him to effort.

  12. In later life Mazzini looked back longingly to the freshness and enthusiasm of those days, before failure had disillusioned him or misunderstanding estranged him from his friends.

  13. He was now entirely bored and disillusioned by his imperial greatness.

  14. Since your wife's death didn't make you disillusioned enough to be receptive to treason, weren't you at least impressed with our offers of fabulous wealth and release from this prison?

  15. Her husband, a gambler, had killed himself after a bad loss, leaving her with an impossible burden of debt and a disillusioned mind.

  16. We were not disillusioned by any conflict with harder-pressed nations, desiring what we had or having what we desired.

  17. There may be an inconclusive peace, which may either be a mere truce or a new basis of agreement between nations disillusioned by the conflict.

  18. If we ever thought otherwise, we are disillusioned now.

  19. What she did with the productions of her brush he never inquired, too disillusioned by that experience.

  20. After the bricks and mortar of the realists, after the lyric pessimism of the morally and politically disillusioned generation following the Franco-German war, his genius comes in the nature of a consoling apparition.

  21. So that while the eleventh century was a century of ignorant and confiding men, the thirteenth was an age of knowing and disillusioned men.

  22. The end of the eighteenth century was a period of disrupting empires and disillusioned expansionists.

  23. France, now disillusioned and uncomfortably royalist again, was hot in pursuit of him.

  24. If any man had made love to you then, you would merely have turned on him your weary disillusioned eyes, or laughed cynically at him and yourself.

  25. I had thought myself too utterly disillusioned ever to imagine myself in love again.

  26. Certainly you were Marie Zattiany, the most subtle, complex, and fascinating woman in Europe when I met you--but abominably disillusioned even then.

  27. And that look he most disliked, that look of ancient wisdom, disillusioned and contemptuous, came into her eyes.

  28. When Julius came to Krakatoa Villa, he came already half disillusioned about Sally.

  29. But now that he had been so far disillusioned by Sally's robust and breezy treatment of the position, he was not quite sure the spook had not something to say for himself.

  30. He was disillusioned as to the busy world, and the opportunities it offered to a young man fired with ambition to make a stir in it.

  31. At last John arrived, apparently a little disillusioned with the world; but the coming of his favourite son produced no change for the better in Captain Borrow s health.

  32. It is the philosophy of a desperate Satanism, which has not even the resigned perspectives of Buddhism to offer to the disappointed and disillusioned soul.

  33. The cold renunciation of disillusioned reason brings no real peace.

  34. That disenchanted disillusioned life may still be traversed by duty, lit by a memory of heaven.

  35. After several years of fruitless struggle he broke off his investigations into spiritism, deeply disillusioned at his failure to interest official science in it.

  36. How often was I not bitterly disillusioned by the behaviour of men for whose ability to think through the most complicated scientific questions I had the utmost admiration!

  37. Yasnaya Polyana had disillusioned and disappointed him.

  38. He initially believed that people would do the right thing according to their consciences, but was disillusioned and then became autocratic.

  39. They studied the original Greek texts and became disillusioned with the filtered interpretations of the church, for example of the Bible and Aristotle.

  40. Her face was hidden in her sister's shoulder, and her whole body had drooped against Joanna's side, utterly weary after three days of travel and disillusioned loneliness.

  41. Her brief adventure into what she thought was a life of fashionable gaiety had discouraged and disillusioned her--she was slowly slipping back into the conventions of her class and surroundings.

  42. Yet I can see that in a measure it disillusioned you.

  43. Half an hour in the society of this over-trained young person left one exhausted and disillusioned with brainy women.

  44. You know that she was unhappy, and that he disillusioned her with love, and almost with life.

  45. Thel, hearing a voice wailing like the ecclesiastic dirge of the disillusioned King, shrieked with terror, and fled back unhindered into the vales of Har.

  46. His resentments secreted poison that was surely spreading through his entire being and threatening to turn the once overtrustful Blake into a disillusioned and bitter old man.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disillusioned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.