Sentence examples for convenient illusion from inspiring English sources

The idea that banks have their "own money" is a convenient illusion.

… The death of free will, or its exposure as a convenient illusion, some worry, could wreak havoc on our sense of moral and legal responsibility".

In her reality show, the prevailing truth propagates the convenient illusion that the failure of your marriage is never really your own fault.

Youth:Scenes From Provincial Life II As stripper-away of convenient illusions and unmasker of colonial bad faith, [Nadine] Gordimer is an heir of the tradition of realism that Cervantes inaugurated.

What the films begin to show, though, is that they are protecting us against a myth.' His third film in particular, he acknowledges, may expose Curtis to similar charges of naivety, in its assertion that al-Qaeda, as a global terror network, is a convenient political illusion.

Some very hard-nosed philosophers and scientists describe this as a convenient fiction, an illusion.

This is a very convenient, perhaps necessary, illusion for surviving in the world.

In this sense, what is called ego or the self is merely a convenient fiction, an illusion that does not apply to anything real but to an erroneous way of looking at the ever changing stream of five interconnected aggregate factors.

The miraculous prose of Hume shows that both convenient beliefs are hopeless illusions.

And it is convenient, as it can give one the illusion that they have reinvented the wheel, when really, at most, they may have just changed the tires.

The possibility of such illusions suggests that their opposite our agreed-on coherent sense of a continuous self may be a convenient fiction, an organized cognitive heuristic that we impose on experience to let us go on having it.