While some most often the type that offer "VIP guest list" and bottle service to separate the men from the boys will remain exclusive in order to maintain a long running illusion of prestige, most nighttime venues presumably can't afford to turn anyone but the most obvious troublemakers away.
To jettison this highly misleading view of art means throwing overboard some long-cherished illusions.
This process-oriented, holistic approach is the hardest lesson Stanley has had to absorb this year, and it came in a crash course this winter when, in an eight-day span, he lost a tournament and won sympathy and then won a tournament and lost some long-held illusions.
Of course, long may this illusion flourish, it's promoted me to parity with Professors Dawkins and Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris –and I have set my whole life, I'd like to think, against the spread of delusion.
Berenger has long had the illusion of immortality and his impending death takes him by surprise; he mourns how he's wasted a lifetime that has passed in a seeming moment.
Franz Müntefering, the Social Democrats' secretary-general, admitted that it had clung too long to the illusion that German herds were entirely free of the disease.In this section Little Polish love for the Union Uranium's fans Is it still happier alone?
It didn't take long for the illusion to be shattered for most of us.
That's the dishonest part of long hair, the illusion starts and stops from behind, no matter how cute your bootie is.
The lack of cognitive dissonance meant as long as the illusion of Islamic conservatism was maintained, as long as the boat wasn't rocked, as long as nothing was stated, written down, admitted or confessed to, as long as you weren't caught – ordinary people could be surprisingly accepting.
Wolfe writes: The leaders of the nation had fixed their gaze so long upon the illusions of false prosperity that they had forgotten what America looked like.
