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The roseate mists it weaves before the vision of its happy and willing victims, blunted even this girl's exceptional and matter-of-fact perspicacity, and with her ears grown suddenly deaf to those who had at first alarmed her by the recapitulation of their unfortunate practical and disillusioning experiences, looked out towards a future beautified with as many shades of blue as the mountain ramparts beyond the river flowing by her door.
They are indirectly a tremendous criticism of American life and civilization, and they imply that breadth of view and that liberation of spirit that complete disillusioning which is the best result of culture, and which all great souls have reached, no matter who or what their schoolmasters may have been. Our reading public probably does not and cannot see itself in Whitman at all.
That for all her three years of intermittent intimacy with a disillusioning world of mimicry, her dreams were pure romance, proved that Lorraine had still the unclouded innocence of her girlhood unspoiled.
I'll treat you as a gentleman." There was a fine quality about the man; she could not deny it. "I'll forgive you then and forget it." It was the tolerant Gabriella who spoke the Gabriella of disillusioning experience and a clear vision of life not the impassioned idealist of the 'nineties. When all was said, you had to take men and things as you found them.
And drawing his coat round him in the chilliness of the dawn, he walked off quickly across the bridge. David also hurried away, speeding along the deserted pavements till again he was in his own dark street. The dawn was growing from its first moment of mysterious beauty into a grey disillusioning light. But he felt no reaction. He crept up the squalid stairs to his room.
This writer retailed how, after a brief, disillusioning few weeks together, Hildreth had grown tired of the poverty and spareness of the living a poet was able to make for her ... of how I was lazy, impliedly dirty ... of how, up against realities, we had parted ... I had, he stated, in fact, deserted her, and was now on my way back to Kansas, riding the rods of freights, once more an unsavoury outcast, a knight of the road ... he ended with the implication, if I remember correctly, that the reception that awaited me in Kansas, would be, to say the least, problematical.
She thought it probable that he would appear that very day, and that her wisest plan was to await his opening attack. The necessity, so unexpectedly laid upon her, of defending the right deflected her mind from dwelling too bitterly on her own disillusioning.
She had a disillusioning way of baring facts in these communings, which showed life to her very honestly but without romance or glamour. At the wedding, sitting in her white dress by her father and mother in the flower-bedecked parlours of the Randolphs, Harriet looked at her brother, standing by the girl of seventeen whom he had just married, and saw things much as they were.
The sort of offences for which conscience condemns one, but to which no legal penalty is attached, are things like petty cruelty, unnecessary harshness, unkindness, introducing innocent people to evil thoughts and ideas, disillusioning others, disappointing them.
I only despise you with all my heart. I want you to go before I despise myself as well!" Her own cruel disillusioning her own unbearable sense of loss swept over her afresh; her voice rose again, and again broke hysterically. With an uncontrolled movement of grief and mortification she turned away from him and threw herself upon a couch, burying her face in the pillows.
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