Example sentences for: disillusioned

How can you use “disillusioned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • David Mamet--who, coincidentally, wrote Connery's marvelous dialogue in that movie--gave the American theater a brusque shove out of the romantic realm of disillusioned lefties such as Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller into a brutal capitalist realism, wherein every encounter was reduced to an attempt by one party to hoodwink, psych out, or otherwise overpower another.

  • The acquittal disillusioned the future vice president with the power of the pen, and he decided to change careers.

  • Self's hero, Simon Dykes, starts out as a successful but disillusioned painter living in contemporary London.

  • Not at all contemporary, maybe it wasn't the simple-minded nonsense it seemed, maybe a parody of Wordsworth perpetrated by a disillusioned towel copy writer à la J.K. Stephens' celebrated parody of that poet: Two Voices are there: One is of the deep/And one is of an old half-witted sheep....

  • The men who survived the war are disillusioned, and the Islamic revolution has lost much of its fire.


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