Sentence examples for former illusion from inspiring English sources

With the data stored redundantly in the cloud, we are more comfortable with a streaming situation than with the former illusion that we "owned" our data locally.

But it was kept alive by a pride, a nostalgia for its former glory, and an illusion that revival was just around the next corner.

The corporate capture of government is not an illusion when a former Shell executive is in the Minstry of Energy, and a former JP Morgan Director sits in a Finance Ministry in Argentina.

Born and raised in the former Soviet Union, I have no illusion about Mr. Putin, who had called the demise of the Soviet Union the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century," and who has demonstrated in his domestic policy that his old Soviet habits die hard.

Accordingly, the two former groups showed a stronger illusion of control than the two latter ones, as detailed above.

In France, a realist tends to be a former romantic mocking his lost illusions but also secretly mourning them.

"It's the illusion," said Mr. Piro, a former seminarian and theology teacher.

But, as a former East German, Merkel has few illusions about Putin.

He adored the illusion of time-bending, a former aide said.

Musharraf seemed to both rue and relish the woes facing his former nemesis, and to cling to an illusion of his own popularity.

In the former case, people go crazy with the illusion of vehicular control; in the latter, they're driven crazy because they have no control at all.