Sentence examples for built on the illusion from inspiring English sources
On this view, these institutions are little more than con-tricks at the moment, built on the illusion that you can turn management into a science and dedicated to the unedifying goal of teaching greedy people how to satisfy their appetites.That is not true.
Las Vegas looms large in our country's psyche: it is, in many ways, built on the illusion that tourists who visit are free to roam around like giant drunk children and gamble away their money, and that it will all end up fine.
Las Vegas is built on the illusion that is America.
Every fashion house's brand is built on the illusion of exclusivity, meaning they don't want you at their show.
The original "Magic Mike," from 2012, was built on the delicious irony of the celebratory energy of dubious fantasy, on the essential contrast between the solid (dancers' bodies) and the elusive (the illusion of gratification that strippers provide).
As an entertainer in an industry built on delightful illusion, the persona delivered to the public here is deliberately not a private person: it's a manufactured brand.
Her work has been described as "absorbing the awe of the desert and its sculptural rock formations and creatures, along with her observations of the sexually charged casino culture, built on fantasy and illusion".
Our financial structure has been built largely on the illusion that funds can at the same time be both available and invested".
We are forced to choose between a life built on an illusion of who we are in order to serve the country we love, or living by those values and ensuring we are labeled unfit to serve and ejected by the very service we hold dear.
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