Sentence examples for curious illusion from inspiring English sources
Re-photographing crumpled or 'sculpted' prints creates a curious illusion of depth, which is useful in initiating this dialogue.
At times, she seems to merge seamlessly with the cushions, creating a curious optical illusion that proves rather disconcerting during our hour-long chat.
Žižek himself is a curious mixture of illusion and reality.
Adam Green introduces us to the virtuosic pickpocket Apollo Robbins, whose talent is so prodigious that it's studied by neuroscientists; Mark Singer profiles the magician Ricky Jay, who is both a mind-melting sleight-of-hand artist and an endlessly curious historian of magic and illusion.
The Curious Museum creates the illusion that you are staring at yourself from across a balcony.
He was curious as to whether the illusion would work on a part of the body that we usually experience through touch and taste rather than through vision.
But you could not argue with the hazy, distantly quiet sound Mr. Nott's strings supplied, and this curious juxtaposition created the interesting illusion of a connection between the assertive dissonances that interrupt the suave theme of Schubert's opening movement, and the blaring woodwind chords that punctuate the Ives.
They are naturally curious and love complexity, discovery and illusion.
But a curious thing happens when you try and show performed magic in a movie – the illusion is cancelled out and the mystery evaporates.
The results are a curious hybrid of the organic-looking made with the inorganic, of exacting planning and improvisation, of illusion created from commonplace materials which are then rendered into something other and far-flung through light.
