Sentence examples for clever illusion from inspiring English sources

It was a clever illusion.

The "clever illusion" of memory offered by the camera is a point well made by David Shariatmadari (Comment, 2 January).

We have this clever illusion that the world is a knowable place.

These are a clever illusion, of course: Each extends over two standard airplane windows.

Doyle will have to admit that what seems otherworldly might be a clever illusion; Houdini will have to hear mysterious tinkling coming from his piano when no one is around to play it, just to keep that door open.

In a clever illusion by Paul Kieve, Trunchbull grabs the little girl by the pigtails and starts swinging her around and around until she tosses her into the air.

Now Benedict Cumberbatch looks set to come to the rescue all over again in a very different role: he will play the British magician Jasper Maskelyne – whose clever illusions are claimed to have helped turn the tide for the allies – in second world war epic The War Magician.

The clever illusions (by Paul Kieve) work neatly.

"That was a rather clever cinematic illusion," he maintains.

The Tel Aviv-based design studio has created a series of 2D/3D LED lamps that resemble translucent three-dimensional lights through the use of a clever optical illusion.

The flurry of white globes bursting out of buildings, crevices, and structures in photographer Charles Pétillon Invasion series may seem like a clever visual illusion, but in fact, every image has been carefully staged with hundreds of balloons and miles of string.