Sentence examples for catastrophic illusion from inspiring English sources
In the past few years, two things have happened: a dramatic rise in online hostility, and a growing awareness that the lovely sense of privacy engendered by communicating via a computer is a catastrophic illusion.
Yes, he was on board with Lyndon Johnson's war in Vietnam in the early years, which reflected the bipartisan consensus of the time, but by 1968, when the Tet Offensive laid bare all of the savage illusions of that catastrophic war, Cronkite stepped up and did the right thing.
The narcissist defends against feelings of catastrophic failure by resorting to a fantasy of specialness, an illusion of mastery and control.
Barnouw points out that the movies effectively automated stage magic (as talkies would later render live musical accompaniment redundant): "The transfer to screen of the magician's most sensational illusions – disappearances, bizarre transformations and beheadings – proved ultimately catastrophic for magicians.
But that may be because with each patient story, she has brought us closer to understanding how flimsy is the veil separating us from them, how tenuous is the illusion that we are invulnerable and cannot be touched by a catastrophic accident, diagnosis or death.
Lyell also claimed that the apparent evidence for catastrophic changes in the fossil record, and even the appearance of directional succession in the history of life, were illusions caused by imperfections in that record.
Apocalyptically catastrophic.
This is hardly catastrophic.
