A common Malaysian identity is an illusion that continues to be pursued amid endless religious, social, and economic differences, fanned by political rivalries and racial pressures.
ThinkCreeps apparently shares a common illusion in evolutionary thinking that natural selection is all we need in the way of basic principles to understand the evolutionary process.
Las Vegas is built on the illusion that is America.
Only Ned, pressing his anti-war petition on anyone with a hand to sign it, still buys Douglas's doctrine of exceptionalism, that common collegiate illusion that, post-graduation, the future will be yours to shape.
But there were all sorts of perceptual oddities that it could not make sense of common optical illusions that nearly everyone was prone to.
It has to do, really, with the illusions that guns provide, particularly the illusion of power.
These were the predecessors of the Creative Commons movement, which suffers the illusion that if ownership is abolished, everything will be free, when the opposite is true; and thinks that in opposition to copyright it is the ally of the little man, even as it fights the battle in behalf of the great combines and business powers of the imminent future.
Times reviews create the illusion that indulging in expensive pleasures is common and normative.
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
Accordingly, in order to avoid suggesting any specific conscious content, for the first experiment we included a common vertical horizontal illusion in our instructions, both to illustrate what an illusion is and to distinguish illusion from inference or judgment.
