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Disillusionment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (256 words) |
 | Disillusionment is the process of removal of an illusion from the human mind. |
| Some examples of disillusionment are prevalent through the novel Main Street, written by Sinclair Lewis in the early 20th Century. |
| Disillusionment is a common convention in film noir. |
| The Illusion of Disillusionment (1603 words) |
| It is this experience of disillusionment, more than anything else, that has been held to distinguish the artist and the intellectual from unreflective creatures of convention, those people who allegedly distrust artists and intellectuals precisely because they the naive multitude cannot bear to hear the bad news. |
| We might call it a quaint conceit, this mental habit of playing off our disillusionment against the innocence of our ancestors, except that it originates in an impulse that is anything but quaint and has very serious consequences, not the least of which is to prevent an understanding of vitally important matters. |
| Disillusionment, we might say, is the characteristic form of modern pride. |
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