perfection is an illusion.
But that is an illusion.
It created an illusion reality.
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
A mirAge is an optical illusion.
Was the Celtic Tiger all an illusion?
Our consciousness might just be an illusion.
The most destitute men often end up by accepting illusion.
However, the illusion of a miracle happening after the collapse of Communism (an illusion that afflicts all post-Communist countries) remains just that-an illusion.
But the scene is actually an optical illusion.
True, I am touching your wart at this moment, but could that not be an illusion?
With all that reflection and refraction, modernism creates the illusion that there is an illusion when in fact it is a straightforward statement of money and power.
The canal on Mars is believed to be an optical illusion.
Realization is to a beautiful thing what vanishing is to an illusion and a dream.
Even if that better future is often an illusion, optimism has clear benefits in the present.
To see the illusion, look at the center of the circle and notice the peripheral shimmering.
As long as the illusion were perfect-and no Agent Smiths intruded-you could live your life in blissful delusion.
In this illusion although the lines appear to be bent they are actually perfectly straight and actually parallel.
This invites all the foolishness and the hysteria of mysticism - a vague, inarticulate sentiment which breeds illusion.
So, what happens is, when you face crisis, all of a sudden you realize that the control was an illusion.
Over 1,600 readers took our online survey about the illusion. What's interesting about the illusion is that it's ambiguous -- it can appear to be spinning both clockwise and counter-clockwise.
In the meantime, Nato soldiers go on dying for the pitiful illusion that we can clean the place up.
I am glad Gemma was under no illusion that this was a luxury holiday - otherwise she would have dumped me for booking it.
This image shows a faux-office wall that creates for the Multimedia Experience audience the illusion of a real office wall.
Once persistent, it was just once. After that, persistence is nothing but illusion. Only when the present is persistent, is it really worth working hard?
The cycle of unproductive insanity caused by the illusion of "busy" can only be broken when we consciously and deliberately decide to put an end to it.
So we can't afford to bury all kinds of ravines and bury secrets. We always cherish the illusion of ourselves, and laugh at the fields we laugh at.
Although the sound was best when I was seated in the“ sweet spot” between the speakers— equidistant from both— I could turn my head or move from side to side without destroying the illusion.
The vicissitudes are not because of the old, because experienced the same posture like expression, experience has different feeling, but there is always a kind of school on the illusion of the vicissitudes.
Cool-headed meteorologists were quick to put the story to bed: it was just an optical illusion, the cause of sunlight hitting a cloud disturbed by wind or plane traffic in just the right way.
Rather, each large eye is a dome-shaped bundle of you move about, only the tubes that are oriented toward you appear black, giving the illusion that you are being tracked.
Finally ten months and a half had gone by and no favorable change had taken place, and dantes began to fancy the inspector's visit but a dream, an illusion of the brain.
