I don't want to disillusion you, but your ex-boyfriend really isn't interested in getting back together - he's found somebody new.
Many people living in the former Soviet bloc have become disillusioned by the slow pace of economic reform following the collapse of communism.
Military
families are said to be angry and disillusioned, frustrated and full of doubt with the way the war has been going.
Disillusionment with the established political parties frequently results in low voter turn-outs.
Studies suggest that most marriages go through stages of
disillusionment in which couples discover that what they expected of their marriage is quite different from how it is actually turning out.
He claims he married an Asian woman because he became disillusioned by American women, who he considers to be too aggressive and independent.
The
children felt a great sense of disillusionment when their favorite teacher left for another school.
She became disillusioned when her art teacher gave her failing marks for her paintings.
I don't want to disillusion you, but really, you're going to find it hard to get a teaching job without a Master's degree.
Recent scandals involving priests sexually abusing young children have caused many believers to become profoundly disillusioned in the church.
Stanley Baldwin once stated that the attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
Antonio Gramsci once observed that the challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Dorothy Thompson once remarked that there is nothing more demoralizing than sudden, overwhelming disillusionment.
Someone once suggested that any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.
Mason Cooley once suggested that illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.