Free from illusion

Usage examples of disenchant.

I am sent by the unfortunate but valiant knight Montesinos, who has ordered me to tell you on his behalf that you should wait for him in the place where I encountered you, because he brings with him the one they call Dulcinea of Toboso, and he will instruct you on what is needed to disenchant her.

For the Ego, the more it could disenchant and disengage from nature and communions, the greater the knowledge and freedom of the self.

A Xana will wed an unmarried man if he disenchants her, but if a mar-, ried man does it he will never be happy until he has put away his own wife and taken the nymph instead.

It is precisely by disenchanting the world that the knowing subject liberates itself!

II It was eight years before the wheels of life carried Scorrier back to that disenchanted spot, and this time not on the business of the New Colliery Company.

She embraced me timidly and replied that she deplored my murdering my wife and her paramour, both of whom she'd known and rather liked, for though in a general way she sympathized with my disenchanted outrage, she believed she understood as well my wife's motives for cuckolding me, which in her view were not all that different, essentially, from the ifrit's maiden's in the story.

Had Titania's eyes been disenchanted when she was fondling the immortal Weaver, she might have perished with disgust.

These were all experiences she wanted first-hand, not sourly from a disenchanted old brain.

Johnny Greene added in private to the other Talents after they had given their testimonies to the investigating committee, "as the fact that he had finally become disenchanted with our dear Ludmilla and, in the last month or so, had begun to distance himself.

And because she curbed the loudness of Maizella's rather good basic voice, she was very welcome indeed - not just by the girl's disenchanted half-brothers and sisters, but by many of the adults who resided in the Hold.

But alternatives would take time, not to mention more experimentation on the part of both Zurg and Harman's innovative crew-more time in which the disenchanted Lord Holders could steadily withdraw their support from Landing.

The self therefore hovers above reality, disengaged, disenchanted, disembodied.

The January, 1996 episode focused on David Belfield (AKA Daoud Salahuddin), a young black man who became disenchanted with American social and economic life and was drawn to the militant Islamic movement.

All it left was the gutted body of one disenchanted, and now disemboweled, American.

Although Bush administration officials had become somewhat disenchanted with Saddam by the summer of 1990, they remained committed to a policy of constructive engagement with Iraq and didn't particularly want to hear a junior CIA analyst telling them that their policy was about to go up in smoke.