Word: disillusionment
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He was a teetotaler and a pacifist. During World War I he chartered the Oscar II and sailed for Europe, determined to confront the leaders of Europe and argue them out of their senseless conflicts. He came home sickened by ridicule and disillusion.
This is no more than the bare skeleton of Under the Volcano. Its flesh & blood is Author Lowry's attempt to set down the detailed workings of the two brothers' minds-the one strangled by disillusion and alcohol, the other frustrated and disgusted by the shallow halfheartedness of...
Said a member of the British delegation: "I don't know if diplomats are ever disillusioned, but if this peace conference doesn't disillusion 'em, they can't be disillusioned. This is like no other peace conference I ever heard about-in fact, I sometimes wonder...
At Belem, mouth of the Amazon, the trekkers were treated to pep talks on the romance of the jungle, shown how to cut the bark of the hevea (rubber tree), and then pushed into the jungle. Disillusion came fast. The hevea did not grow in stands; sometimes the trees were...
What George Can't Do. If General Marshall looked ten years older on his return to China, as some observers thought, it was not from the shock of disillusion. The patient, war-seasoned soldier had again & again emphasized the real U.S. role in China-the establishment of a political...