When he puts in little asides — the "wait a minute"s and the "listen"s and the "honestly, let's just think about it"s — he is evincing more than tics: he is deploying a sly strategy, giving off the slight illusion that the whole speech is extemporaneous.
He said ominously: "You must not harbour the slightest illusion about the mercy of the Chinese government.
We have not the slightest illusion about the I.N.S.'s choices: the choices -- about policy and about application of the policy -- that the I.N.S. made in this case are choices about which reasonable people can disagree.
Nobody should have the slightest illusion that the House will defend the Clean Air Act if Murkowski is successful.
Keep your audience at a slight distance for this illusion if you have any doubts about the visibility of the paper edges or the bits of tape.
But it would give the illusion of 'progressivity' by offering a slight benefit bump to the extremely poor, funded by benefit cuts for the middle class.
When he reaches the words "freudenlose Welt" ("joyless world"), a slight roughness intrudes, as if he had lost faith in the illusion of song.
The ego's illusion got super bad for me but luckily a slight reminder of my ~ing guided me back to truth.
It works, but a slight movement of your head (or a jolt on the bus or train) will ruin the illusion.
The Dust Bowl illusion is masterly, starting with David Zeffren's splendid lighting design, in which everyone and everything has a slight sepia tint.
