The phrase "destroy illusion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the idea of decoding a false idea or perception or dispelling a notion. For example: "Speakers often use persuasive rhetoric to create an illusion, but upon further examination, it can be quickly destroyed."
In a way, to invoke Bret Easton Ellis's line in his Newsweek and Daily Beast essay about Charlie Sheen and the differences between what he called Empire and post-Empire thinking, which strives to be transparent and destroy illusions, Mr. Formichetti and his collaborators "get it".
The war had "destroyed illusion and put truth in its place".
His art was heavily influenced by the upheavals of late-19th-century Europe: the rise of nationalism and liberalism, and the scientific discoveries that both explained the mysteries of the world and destroyed illusions of human centrality.
For Brazil's football lovers, to judge from the pictures of their horror and shock, this already legendary defeat is the equivalent of Holbein's painting, a memento mori that destroys illusions and strips away all consolation.
Eisenhower & Dulles have conducted it in such a way as to destroy the illusion of American omnipotence & to encourage its replacement with the illusion that because we can do relatively little with our power, we need relatively little power.
The big draw are covers act the Clone Roses who, from the look of them, are missing a trick if they don't moonlight as Codsabian, and who destroy the illusion in the first 20 seconds of I Wanna Be Adored.
"After all," he said, "honestly overruling Crawford would destroy the illusion of judicial minimalism and restraint".
The Royal Court's new stage version of his 1980 book, The Twits, has the dubious distinction of being the first show to destroy that illusion.
The early-morning starts, the painted backdrops and the stars without their makeup all served to destroy the illusion of glamour.
