"disillusioning" to see Republicans who once supported the DREAM Act turn against it in the current climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [FOXNews.com] Reference

I think it's been a disillusioning quarter of a century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath] Reference

‘My son, my Scan,’ said Mrs Lovell, disillusioning him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guilty Thing Surprised]

Happily, the disillusioning fog had come upon us by degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

That is the disillusioning reality you must learn to accept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Manners: Parents should learn to say 'sorry'] Reference

I found that a bit … disillusioning, I guess would be a good word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Henry Ell Frye, February 18 and 26, 1992. Interview C-0091. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

But what continues to be disillusioning is how few of them even try.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Horden: Inner Activism: Three Tricks To Avoiding Burnout] Reference

Judith reached the Top in the grey, disillusioning light of early dawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

"If half the things they're saying are true, it's disillusioning for everyone.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sorrows Of Werner] Reference

Their thoughts are boring, disgusting, disillusioning, but very seldom amusing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead As A Doornail]

Our meeting, so far from disillusioning her, made her cult of me keener and more direct.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Stories]

If you find this disillusioning, Miss Manners notes that at least it will save you money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Manners: Giving the slip to would-be friends on Facebook] Reference

And it was a disillusioning moment for those of us who had held out hope for Bill Clinton.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Surprises: Two Decades of Clinton Watching] Reference

O'BRIEN: So when you say it's been disillusioning, specifically what are you talking about?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2004] Reference

But I found working with WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows a profoundly disillusioning experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Font A Day Keeps My Muse Away] Reference

This primary has been really good for disillusioning me altogether about a number of people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Releases Another Ad Hitting Hillary Over Gas Tax Holiday] Reference

That disillusioning experience, he said, later prompted him to found his own charitable group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gift Shows China Philanthropy Has Reached the Big Leagues] Reference

O'BRIEN: You have said that you have found the campaign disillusioning and also a dirty business.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2004] Reference

It had been disillusioning, or else she was deficient, and Fleur, could not bear to feel deficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Monkey] Reference

It was so dispiriting and disillusioning, and then I was finding myself falling into the same thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values] Reference

But however disillusioning my apres-walk appearance might be, the walk itself is rarely disappointing.    From Wordnik.com.  [weeme Diary Entry] Reference

The cognitive dissonance from the general commentary here isn't surprising, but its pretty disillusioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Response To Lawsuit Threat, White House Releases Names Of Health Industry Executives Who Visited White House] Reference

This is disillusioning to many who strongly supported Obama on the campaign trail and believed him back then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Second Hundred Days] Reference

It was disillusioning to discover that Hawkes had taken him in mostly because he would be useful in a robbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starman's Quest] Reference

As a former McCain 2000 foot soldier his evolution has just been the most disillusioning process of my lifetime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Top McCain Advisers Resign As Campaign Continues To Implode] Reference

I believe many of us have also seen the disillusioning fruit of mixing politics with relious zeal on all fronts.    From Wordnik.com.  ["I'm So Disillusioned."--Excellent, Now We Are Getting Somewhere!] Reference

Let me share a few of the most simple and yet theologically disillusioning concepts that many Christians struggle with.    From Wordnik.com.  ["I'm So Disillusioned."--Excellent, Now We Are Getting Somewhere!] Reference

The erosion of the constitutionally protected fundamental rights has been especially disillusioning for India's Muslim youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parvez Ahmed: India's Invisible Minority] Reference

Science, which once was hailed as a deliverer, is now perceived to bring only the disillusioning knowledge of our limitations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanly Speaking] Reference

And that could be very disillusioning for a lot of voters who would lose confidence in the system and especially for young voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2008] Reference

Yet I believe the same disillusioning forces that for a time drove me away from politics have continued for the country as a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vp Al Gore Harvard Commencement Speech] Reference

Do you find any of that disillusioning after all the years in the business that people are saying that it's going in the wrong direction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2002] Reference

Fighting for free speech on campus can be a tough and disillusioning career choice some weeks, and this is definitely one of those weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greg Lukianoff: Hell Week for Campus Free Speech] Reference

On the other hand, if the boy had not formally enlisted, perhaps the rigors of one of the General's usual cross-country scrambles might be disillusioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference

There was no sign of life about, and it might have served as the refuge of the Sleeping Princess, but a nearer inspection would probably have been disillusioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference

It is uttered as a defense by politicians who get in trouble and as a general sigh of exasperation by others who are just bummed out by all the disillusioning news.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press Didn't Do It] Reference