Sentence examples for Mere illusion from inspiring English sources

That's a problem, because firewalls often provide a mere illusion of protection.

The Muslim as society's folk devil is no mere illusion or fantasy.

Scott CT and Senatore V. (2015) Europe's landmark decisions on stem cell patents: Hope or mere illusion?

Sadly, to judge by Wednesday's GDP figures, growth under this coalition remains just an ambition, a mere illusion.

Sometimes farcical and sometimes heartbreaking, Pippin invites us to think about what will truly make us happy and what is mere illusion.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

How many parts of my life, I wondered, were mere illusions?

"Since human pleasures and pains are mere illusions, the anguish deriving from the certainty of the nothingness of things is always the only true reality".

As I watched the audience respond, it was hard not to conclude that Spence's crossmodal correspondences were more than mere illusions.

If the ghosts are mere illusions, then she is suffering a bout of insanity, in which her "revelations" about the children's unearthly communications, and her perception of them as allied to unspeakable evil, must reflect her deeply suppressed aggressions and hostility.

Leibniz does not think that bodies are mere illusions.