Sentence examples similar to aristocratic illusion from inspiring English sources
In refashioning himself as an artist with no aristocratic airs and no illusions about the significance of money, he made a choice of hero unlikely for a former celebrant of the East Coast Protestant elite: a hard-working Jewish film producer.
But the smart-money punditry that this was all aimed at moderate Republicans and independents makes even less sense; they are the nation's most politically savvy and educated voters and can see through the illusion of an aristocratic walk through the barrios.
Trompe l'oeil sets, with details of doors and moldings traced on canvas walls, carried this sense of illusion into the interiors of aristocratic houses, down to the bits of lace on the characters' costumes, which were painted fakery.
The man has a code, whereas Scarlett, feeling bitterly betrayed by the ideals of the Old South, proceeds with an unbridled ruthlessness, sustained by her illusion of love for the aristocratic Ashley Wilkes Leslie Howardd).
And yet the illusion was never quite convincing: behind the assertive, aristocratic bearing of "Joan Crawford" audiences had no difficulty discerning Lucille LeSueur, the anxious, highly self-conscious working-class girl born to a single mother (her father left before she was born) in San Antonio.
Meanwhile, what originally started as a democratic counterpart to aristocratic opera reached its fruition as the theatrical association of sentiment with illusion.
Too aristocratic, too confusing.
Aristocratic British ladies became dressmakers.
"These are not aristocratic feet.
