Word: disillusional
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Trumpets of Victory. German morale never quite recovered from the disillusion of October 1941 (TIME, June 29). Last reek's disillusion may prove to have cut even deeper when World War II is history. For weeks radio and press had trumpeted the inevitability of victory. High Command communiques, though...
Professor Spencer said that since "most people are facing the present war with more realism than they did before," the chances of intense disillusion, and correspondingly, of serious cynicism are considerably lessened.
Now she is finishing a series of articles for The New Yorker about her actress sister June Havoc and her mother, with whom she started trouping when she was six. Even that job did not disillusion her with literature ("People told me that anyone who wrote for The New Yorker...
If any country can be crushed by the "white war" of economic blockade, it should be Japan. The general staff of such a war is Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare (MEW). Mindful of how Britons had lulled themselves through eight months of World War II with faith in...
Disillusion came quickly to the Spaniards themselves. At the sight of the white Aztec metropolis and its great temples amid blue lakes, green slopes and high peaks, a roughhewn, hard-bitten soldier of Cortez' army in 1519 cried, "It is like the enchantments they tell of in the Legend...