Sentence examples for deceptive sense from inspiring English sources

Scale passages and melodic fragments impart a deceptive sense of tonality.

For Westerners, the use of the feudal model necessarily created a deceptive sense of familiarity with societies that are different from their own.

As on her previous album, which was meaningfully titled "Turn Me Loose," Ledisi stamps this one with an earthy intensity and a deceptive sense of abandon.

When we reach the top, the light seems to bend in the sky, and a deceptive sense of harmony engulfs the landscape.

NEW DELHI — On Saturday night, when India lifted the Cricket World Cup for the first time in 28 years, the nation was filled with rare collective joy and a deceptive sense of wellbeing.

With 50m to go, when she took the lead, there was a deceptive sense that she had gone too soon and her workload was about to reap its vengeance.

He writes, "Chairs and tables, dishes and plates, everything that the senses perceive are "really" souls presenting themselves to our deceptive senses under these particular forms".

Mr. Stewart plays it with such deceptive common sense that the full measure of the character isn't appreciated until the final frame.

It had an alluringly deceptive intimacy; a sense of snatching a stolen peek at girls psyching themselves up for a night out.

The first three series were all defined by a sense of deceptive control; this series felt overstuffed, as though it were helmed by a hyperactive teenager.

According to the summary in the pseudo-Plutarch Miscellanies, Xenophanes "declares that the senses are deceptive and generally rejects reason along with them" (A32).