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Disney’s corporate dominance can be pretty disenchanting — but for many, classic tunes like “When You Wish Upon a Star” and “Beauty and the Beast” still hold magic within them.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022

He said his first foray into politics was a disenchanting one and will also be his last.

From Washington Times • Jun. 4, 2022

We may balk at replacing an enchanting story about a prizewinning essay with a disenchanting one about library larceny.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021

Past interpreters have read this "Sonnet — To Science" as a standard romantic attack on the disenchanting effects of objective inquiry, then a growing force in the young republic.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2021

If it played a role in disenchanting the world, it did so precisely because it was effectively inculcated among the educated, clerical and lay, male and female.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton