Sentence examples for collective illusion from inspiring English sources

It's easy to be cautionary after things go to hell; Fitzgerald saw, and warned of, hell breaking through the collective illusion of paradise.

An economist might say, dollars don't exist, it's just a collective illusion, I think this is very bad advice and I also think it is bad, greedy reductionist advice to say free will is an illusion.

In a recent review article, Palmer summarized the impact of selective reporting on his field: "We cannot escape the troubling conclusion that some — perhaps many — cherished generalities are at best exaggerated in their biological significance and at worst a collective illusion nurtured by strong a-priori beliefs often repeated".

"A few months before," Liao writes, "we were under the collective illusion that the Chinese people were brave and fearless, yet to witness the malice of this small-town mob showed that these same protesters were also capable of cruelly violating their fellow citizens".

In a recent review article, Palmer summarized the impact of selective reporting on his field: "We cannot escape the troubling conclusion that some perhaps many cherished generalities are at best exaggerated in their biological significance and at worst a collective illusion nurtured by strong a-priori beliefs often repeated".

That is because Mr. Kostunica is the president of a legal entity, Yugoslavia, whose existence is something of a collective illusion, and whose main constituent parts are restive or in flux: * Kosovo, the majority-Albanian province of Serbia run by the United Nations and NATO-led troops, is increasingly explosive, with armed Albanian militants infiltrating Serbia and killing policemen.

And the waking up from our collective illusions has barely begun.

In horrifyingly demonstrating that even America can be assaulted on its native soil, the attack of 9/11 shattered our collective illusions of safety, inviolability, and grandiose invincibility, illusions that had long been mainstays of the American historical identity.

Most of all it questions the illusion of collective optimism in the face of evidence to the contrary.

Most conflict, whether on a personal or collective level, stem from illusions.

Tragically, every effort to actualize such ideological illusions inflicts collective trauma on those whom we attack, and they respond with an intensification of their resurrective ideologies.