Word: disillusionment
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The Idea of Christ in the Gospels confronts the reader with no such unpleasant choice of illusion or disillusion. Now Santayana accepts the illusion. If religion is a myth, he says, no disparagement is thereby implied, since science, philosophy, history and other "images" of the universal flux are also myths...
New Responsibility. Thus spoke a worn man from a worn country, who knew the old League in the years of its disillusion. Now he was almost willing to believe that this new league might be good enough and strong enough for a world in social and atomic revolution.
Fly to Wilkes-Barre? As a result of the inaccessibility of airports, said the CAA, and the relatively slow cruising speed and limited range of light planes, the net time saved over the automobile on short trips would be slim. Sternly the CAA concluded: if manufacturers repeat their prewar mistake...
Were the victors building up the throne? They were taking that chance. But the defeated Emperor's role as Man Friday for the occupying powers may in the long run disillusion the Japanese as nothing else could.
...lived there were concerned, and Chinese leaders were even more disturbed, because we and they knew that it was not a true picture of the situation in China or in any country, and that such over-idealization would inevitably lead to a swing-back into over-disillusionment. We are in the midst of that swing-back now. Those who a year ago could hardly find words good enough with which to describe our Chinese allies now can hardly find words bad enough. To hear them talk now, all Chinese are lazy, are crooks, and grafters, are obstructionists, antiforeign, hopelessly inefficient...