Sentence examples for entertain an illusion from inspiring English sources

Why entertain an illusion?

"It's pointless to entertain any illusions," he wrote.

Few people had previously entertained any illusions about Saddam Hussein, but some have now begun to wonder at the suddenness with which we as a nation were awakened to his menace.

Do you entertain a lot?

For a while yesterday, office workers near ground zero could entertain the illusion that life was back to normal at the World Financial Center.

We could entertain the illusion that the average Russian or Cuban or Iraqi secretly admired us.

It's unlikely that a veteran M.P., whose service covered at least some of the Vietnam years, would entertain the illusion that all fighting men are Boy Scouts.

"While the government is exhausting all avenues for a peaceful resolution to the situation, let it be clear to those defying us that they should not entertain the illusion that the state will hesitate to use its forces to protect our people".

By placing the guillotine at the centre of current political debates, Pablo Iglesias aims to shatter the complacent illusion that the current crisis will be resolved by business as usual: to entertain this illusion is blindly to follow the path to violence.

The only difference is that today we can no longer entertain the illusion that it's anything else.

Stephenson said "I never tried to entertain the illusion that I was going to write something that had no trace of the 20th or the 21st century in it".