The central illusion of a Presidential campaign is that a candidate can, through constant motion and boundless energy, meet countless people and, in the end, give voice to the experience of the country.
This is the central illusion of Harper Lee's classic, a book that, among its other merits, artfully brings to life the bumpy tire-roll of growing up, full as it is of adventure and trouble and rules and lessons.
His video upended a central illusion of film.
Part, but only a part, of Ayer's reason for embracing such indirect realism was what has been called the argument from illusion, the central idea of which is that, for any perceptual state of ours, we could be in a state indiscriminable from it but which did not involve perception of any material object or scene, it being an illusion that there was any such object or scene to be perceived.
As Deitz wrote in her essay "'Make the Land Work for You': Russell Page in America" (from Of Gardens: Selected Essays, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011): "Because Page understood that people cannot judge distances over water, the rectangular lily pond that stretches across the central lawn creates the illusion of great depth in shallow space".
For example, when observers are asked to judge the size of the central circles in an Ebbinghaus illusion they perceive the illusion, but when asked to grasp the circles their grip size is accurate (Aglioti, Desouza, & Goodale, 1995).
Although the hypothesis has been applied for explaining Geometrical illusions in the past [36, 37, 38, 39], Changizi's new prediction generalized this idea and categorized Geometrical illusions based on the central idea that 'the classical Geometrical illusions are similar in kind to the projections observers often receive in a fixation when moving through the world' [9, p. 461].
What made Mr. Hause's piece particularly compelling was his way of deconstructing and varying the central rhythms without undermining the illusion of constancy that they provide.
There were also no illusions about the central tactic in that victory: convincing women that the Republican party wanted to strip them of the chain of reproductive rights that women have slowly pulled over to their side.
Illusion created by geometric shape was the central, encompassing vision for this collection.
The central point, of course, is that it takes both a big government and the illusion of free markets to achieve such massive redistribution.
