A distant American illusion implied by formerly banned Western commodities, aspirations and ideals served my generation as a colorful escape from the mundane reality, providing us with a faint glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
The fantasy of the normalization of Donald Trump the idea that a demagogic candidate would somehow be transformed into a statesman of poise and deliberation after his Election Day victory should now be a distant memory, an illusion shattered.
Bacon is next concerned with optical illusions, inverted images, magnification, vision of distant objects, the moon illusion, and such matters.
(In a 1970 drawing of the subject, one of the few drawings in the show, Ms. Celmins placed a very faint white X in the center of the composition, defiantly defacing her signature image and also canceling the illusion of distant space by asserting the two-dimensional nature of the sheet).
Contemporary paintings and photographs of the universe, racks of costumes, videos of rehearsals and performances and ever-present distant music contribute to an illusion of being present backstage at the birth of a performance.
Mr. Cohen, who is known as the Millionaires' Magician for his magic show at the Waldorf-Astoria, sets out to run down four illusions from the distant past.
And yet the most durable legacy has to do with the more distant future, and the disappearance of an illusion about our loved ones, particularly our children.
The famous unexplained noise that suddenly rings out – a strange twang that sends a warning shiver through the gathering – is not, as so often, a distant sound that could almost be an illusion.
Some men are under the illusion that women like the cold, distant "bad boy" persona.
In a reversal of the illusion on the valley floor, Badwater seemed impossibly distant, much farther than fifteen miles off.
