Sentence examples for be illusion from inspiring English sources
noun
Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
- We saw what looked like a tiger among the trees, but it was an illusion caused by the shadows of the branches.
Of course, much of the change that alchemists believed was taking place we now know to be illusion -- the goose doesn't turn into serpents, nor is mercury transformed into gold.
What seems obvious within a given space -- the shortest distance between two points, the way one travels from one point to another, the limits on how far one can travel at all -- is shown to be illusion when standing outside the space.
To those who might reply, "But if we can't do that with reality, then reality might as well be illusion," he says, "Yes, and..
Any appearance of insight into the nature of body gleaned from the imagination is as likely to be illusion as illumination.
Chimera's subject is illusion.
All is illusion for the enlightened.
Appearances are irrelevant; argument is illusion.
