He wanted the Andante to evoke "a sea of feelings, tender and sorrowful: love, sorrow, vague desires, inexplicable thoughts, illusions of a delicate dream".
Its delicate construction captured movement and light, intensifying the illusion that the dancer was defying gravity as she leapt or span.
On each rested a dosdii, a spindly, delicate, wearable device designed by Simun to produce a "flavor illusion" which, combined with a ritual cocktail, would allow me to experience this endangered, impossible scent.
The delicate branches of her verse run you along a harrowing borderline of substance and illusion.
This classy, delicate, pale-straw-yellow dessert wine, made from moscato bianco grapes, finishes dry, offering a charming illusion of restraint.
Near the center of Greenville there stands an old white church, with a delicate spire and handsome steps leading down from a colonnade — the kind of building that makes an illusion of space around itself.
Some were tiered and had delicate horizontal bands of crystal wrapped around; long sleeves or dress backs of nude silk tulle created the illusion of bare skin.
Today's neo-Paleyans must also concur with Paley that the watch's delicate functionality could not be the product of chance, inherent "principles of order," or laws of matter, nor merely an illusion of design.
The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance and Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? will never want for production; they dissect our desire to hide behind illusion with a devastating and unflinching accuracy.
