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disillusionments

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The Black mustache didn’t end with the disillusionments of the post-civil-rights era.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2020

The experience provides an allegory for Ned’s life: every pool “reflects” something about his personal and professional disillusionments and dissatisfactions.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2015

It, too, is concerned with the disillusionments wrought by war and adulthood.

From New York Times • May 11, 2015

Then he went to Europe, where he finished On a Darkling Plain, a novel in which three college buddies encounter the disillusionments of the postwar world.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the first of many disillusionments that were to come as her capacity to feel things grew.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith