Sentence examples for based on an illusion from inspiring English sources

An "ethical reversal" based on an illusion – the belief that internal life can be objectively measured – has usurped the role of sensitivity to human speech.

Celebrity culture is based on an illusion of perfection.

So does it count against your well-being if your happiness is based on an illusion — say, the false belief that your wife loves you?

We are now closer than ever to realising this aim – but we are also closer than ever to realising that this has all been based on an illusion.

What then are they to do?The underlying problem is clear enough: cheap car-travel has been based on an illusion.

The entire edifice of court, government and country is based on an illusion: the danger lies not in the king's madness, but in the revelation that the poor, shivering creature sitting blistered, bled, purged and wrapped in a straitjacket, is only a man after all.

An engineer hired by the city, who inspected those buildings yesterday, said that some reports about damage -- notably the possible imminent collapse of 1 Liberty Plaza -- were apparently based on an "optical illusion".

That strategy, based on a statistical illusion, they say, is doomed to land those who pursue it on the shores of negative mortality, the grim term actuaries use to describe outliving one's resources.

It basically shows that results purporting to show economic expansion following spending cuts and/or tax increases were based on a statistical illusion: an expanding economy can often lead to rising revenue and/or falling spending (e.g. because safety-net spending falls or because the government cuts back in an attempt to cool off inflationary pressures).

But if so, they need to explain how a practice based on a pervasive illusion can be as successful as modern science.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, believed religion was an illusion based on an infantile need for a father figure.