Sentence examples for a modern illusion from inspiring English sources
It is a modern illusion that an act cannot be prosecuted as a crime just because there is not a specific piece of legislation which proscribes it.
The fascinating exhibition includes interactive optical illusions; a modern take on Hogarth's Gin Lane exploring addiction; ceramics that magnify the molecules responsible for Alzheimer's disease; a flashing installation that represents the human brain; and an interpretation by an erotic photographer of the way babies' brains change in the first few weeks of life.
While it's based on the original Swan Lake, Maillot has used an edited version of the Tchaikovsky score, and collaborated with the writer Jean Rouaud to develop a story that filters the ballet's themes of love and betrayal, reality and illusion through a modern, erotic slant.
That Mr. Maugham uses the elaborations of a modern technique does not create the illusion of reality that he is pursuing.
But don't be under the illusion that this is merely a modern folktale or a toe dipped in the waters of magic realism.
A modern version, obviously.
A modern mosquito miracle.
A modern solution, indeed.
A modern city should have modern rules.
But if so, they need to explain how a practice based on a pervasive illusion can be as successful as modern science.
