Sentence examples for comfortable illusion from inspiring English sources

But maybe the alternative system would simply obscure the errors, spinning a comfortable illusion of an election decided by will rather than chance.

Johnson puts it this way: "Too many senior people today are stuck in the past in a comfortable illusion of a universe which doesn't really exist.

A physical descent, from the peak of our oil supplies and our squandering of resources, but also a psychological descent from the peak of our comfortable illusions.

He sees himself not merely as a comedian, however, but as a voice crying in the wilderness, revealing the truth behind the day's events, trying to disabuse comfortable New Yorkers of their comfortable illusions.

Last week in Norway, comfortable illusions were shattered so suddenly that people around the world were left grasping for new ones.

The smoldering poop-bag that is our economy is, of course, a testament to the wisdom of overindulging comfortable illusions.

Bachelorette, we, as a nation, are only comfortable with the illusion of sex.

We do not want to live in reality but are comfortable living in illusion and we believe that somehow the gain far outweighs the effort needed to eliminate them.

Oil, he suggests, has become a drug, lulling governments into a false illusion of comfortable immobility.Other chapters deal with security, border disputes and Iran's military capabilities.

"There is no more dangerous illusion than the comfortable doctrine that the world owes us a living," he said.

The audience that turned up for the Lumière brothers' pioneering exhibition, in Paris, was not yet comfortable with the idea of illusion.