Sentence examples for discarded illusion from inspiring English sources

"The Passion," I think, is junk, but at least it's not trivial, cynical junk in the usual style of postmodernist pop — the gleeful rooting around in the scrap heap of discarded illusion, Kill Bill-ism for nonbelievers.

Just recently we saw this distinction at play as Egypt and her people discarded their illusion of fear and powerlessness to reclaim their reality for freedom.

To discard that illusion is not to diminish music's importance; rather, it lets us register the uncanny power of the medium.

Thirty-five yeafterfthe the revolution, Iran's only hope is if young people shed their fears of a new revolution and finally discard the illusion that reform is possible.

The U.S. may soon discard the illusion that China is gradually transitioning to become a responsible global power and may begin to react to China in a manner consistent with what it really is: an emerging global superpower that will stop at nothing to promote its own interests.

Those things are illusions.

Whether through constructive engagement, script-based design, or other means, smart companies define the terms of their community participation but discard their illusions of control.

The hard right sees the union of Labor and Likud as glorious confirmation that Israelis are finally sobering up and discarding their illusions about peace.

Over-all, I would say that conservatives desire to strengthen American foreign policy by discarding the liberal illusion that we can somehow coexist with communism in a semblance of peace and honor.

On a back table, he can find, half discarded in a big tub, faded old blueprints for illusion boxes — instructions for making magic cabinets of a kind that no one makes anymore.

She was still in the grip of the illusion created by the opening lead, so she discarded a spade, and was disconcerted to see the diamond ten appear on her left.