disenchantment
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He wasn’t exactly excelling in the classroom, and his disenchantment with school was beginning to wear on him.
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This was the beginning of what Weber called ‘the disenchantment of the world’.
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Love as rarely exists in reality, as if a master alchemist has taken it and distilled out all the impurities, every petty disenchantment, every unworthy thought, into a perfect elixir, sweet and deep and all-consuming.
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Nevertheless, and although he himself did not seem to notice it, those letters of recuperation and stimulation were slowly changing into pastoral letters of disenchantment.
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All the totems of Bull’s disenchantment with the South could be carved from pillars of congealed grits.
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