Exempel på disillusioning

• It seems likely that his challenge can only be met by a new generation of ' idealists ', untainted by the disillusioning experiences so acutely analysed here.

• More recently, critics have been inclined to see, at the very least, a disillusioning ambivalence about empire.

• Lowenthal has argued that the appropriation of the past in this context became "a refuge from the all too new and disillusioning present" created by rapid modernization (xxi).

• How disillusioning for our nurses: they were promised so much and, within so little time, badly let down.

• I believe that the development of the instruments of biological warfare in this country is part also of this disillusioning process.

• Does he accept that one of the things that young people find most disillusioning is being asked for their views, then having them totally disregarded?

• Nothing could be more disillusioning than for a young person wishing to vote to find his name not on the roll.

• It was a deeply disillusioning experience to go there.

• We know that what chief executives say is very disillusioning.

• However, that may be the thought of someone with some sad and disillusioning experience behind him.

• Let us find ways to reduce the number of trials that crack late in the day, disillusioning witnesses and victims.

• Again and again planning applications are overturned on appeal, and that is disillusioning for elected councillors, who are doing their best for local people.

• The clamouring for higher salaries and top positions has been very disillusioning.

• Scientists are disillusioned, not necessarily because of cuts—though that certainly is disillusioning enough—but because when cuts are proposed they are proposed in such a disjointed way.

• Who is to say what the final social consequences will be on marriages and families which have been founded in the disillusioning and dispiriting framework of almost certain continuous unemployment?