Sentence examples for first illusion is from inspiring English sources

His first novel, dedicated to a British Jewish novelist, Linda Grant, is a slim but potent meditation on memory and exile".The Illusion of Return" is rich in double meaning: the first illusion is that the Palestinians can ever return to their home villages, many of which now lie buried under Israeli housing estates and industrial parks.

Hammond's second illusion is that some loose change chucked at roads, transport and other things marked "infrastructure" amounts to a growth strategy.

The second illusion is better, but too busy for my taste.

In a matter of seconds, the illusion is complete.

The first, "The Grand Illusion," is now considered one of the seminal art-rock albums of the 1970s.

Angel's first major illusion was making his mother float in their family den.

The upshot of these sūtras is that, first, the concept of illusion is parasitic on that of veridical experience (not all coins can be counterfeit), and, second, that illusion shows a combinational (propositional) structure: this is a something or other.

My second novel, "The Last Illusion," is made up, quite simply, of two basic elements: myth plus imagination.

Voltaire's observation "Illusion is the first of all pleasures" is the tag line of Monte Hellman's grandiloquent neo-noir, "Road to Nowhere".

The show, which is billed as rich with illusion, is his first theatrical production and the award-winning Shellard is selling tickets by performing magic at restaurant tables throughout the capital.

She insisted that literature was a precursor to sin and damnation...One day, she lost her temper completely when I read aloud to her a quotation of Voltaire's which I had copied out — "Illusion is the first of all pleasures".