Word: disillusional
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"Besides, there have been manifestations which it would be criminal for us to ignore. What must reproach democracy for is that it creates one type of man and really believes that this man exists. This leads to atrocious disillusion, tragedies, butcheries.
"An advantage of telephone conversation is the fact, that the ONE at the other end cannot see you. Half the time, much to the disgust of your family, you go to the telephone in kimono and cold cream. Disillusion would certainly be the fate of the ONE at the other...
Four American undergraduates have in the last month committed suicide. Not one of them died without leaving behind some sort of explanation of his act, ranging from the extreme lassitude and disillusion of one to the boundless curiosity of another. Not content with the motives of the actors themselves, the...
Thus far harmony, if disillusion. But a brisk passage of arms crackled when Carleton Beals, one-time Principal of the American High School, Mexico City, charged the U.S. with constant graft and aggrandizement in Mexico, ending by claiming that onetime (1909-13) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Henry Lane Wilson received...
The emigrants' disillusion starts with Ellis Island and, if one cares for further investigation, ends-only with the Golden Gate. Even Hollywood, the alabaster Hollywood, has its conventional citizens, men who wear something besides chaps or full dress, women who do not appreciate the potentialities of a tiger skin. Like...