Sentence examples for expensive illusion from inspiring English sources

A teenage apprentice at George Lucas's effects house, Industrial Light and Magic, and then a hotshot director of commercials and music videos (including a brace of enormously influential ones for Madonna, at the height of her image-making powers), Mr. Fincher has always been in the business of expensive illusion and manufactured beauty.

They write: "We are spending limited resources on expensive illusions that keep us in thrall to the past.

So why not make things easier for all concerned, and much less expensive, by abandoning the illusion that we can stop or even diminish drug use by declaring it illegal?

But in that study, they induced the illusion using expensive video equipment; the new work shows that feeling like your fingers are being stretched can be done much more simply.

Times reviews create the illusion that indulging in expensive pleasures is common and normative.

Perhaps the lesson is that politicians now must first generate the illusion of savings before writing expensive handouts into legislation.

Some customers will choose the most expensive plan no matter what, due to the illusion that the most expensive plan is always the best one.

Like Mr. Obama's reform, RomneyCare was predicated on the illusion that insurance would be less expensive if everyone were covered.

(Samuel Bronfman, for whom Mies designed what at the time was probably the most expensive office building ever built, had no such illusions, or lost them early in the game).

Just bewildering illusions delivered by a reticent Bradfordian in expensive leisurewear.

Deficits create a "fiscal illusion" that public goods and transfer payments are less expensive than they are.