Sentence examples for fostering the illusion from inspiring English sources

She presents their narratives in an artless, affectless style, passing the occasional comment but otherwise fostering the illusion – for illusion it is – that she is leaving her material unshaped.

From start to finish, "Marry Me" succeeds in fostering the illusion of effortlessness, of an almost careless expertise, as much in production and arrangement as in songwriting and execution — a far cry from such low-fi, rough-around-the-edges indie debuts as Cat Power's "Dear Sir" or the Pixies' "Come On Pilgrim".

He had a unique gift for democratizing chess; he suggested moves at a rapid-fire pace, all the while fostering the illusion that any of us might figure out the next Fischer gambit if we could only learn a few basics.

"Every week, the rivals in her own party come up with new, mostly short-term solutions such as migration caps, transit zones or border closures, fostering the illusion that Germany could just disengage and solve the refugee problem all on its own," Kretschmann told Tagesspiegel newspaper.

Last October, in hopes of fostering the illusion of productivity while leaving my habits unchanged, I wrote up a series of dinner-and-a-horror-movie pairings for my culinary blog, The Poor Mouth.

But tea-party-driven success in the mid-terms could foster the illusion that the Republicans lost the White House because Mr McCain was insufficiently close to their base.

To foster the illusion of competition, the company staged "drive-bys," getting insurers to make presentations to a client, even when the outcome had already been determined.

In order to help ease his character into the real world, he fostered the illusion among local authorities that his character actually existed.

Ultimately, however, utopian rhetoric and utopian strategies are the last thing a country like Bolivia needs, because they foster the illusion that prosperity is easy to achieve.

And in court filings, Gruner & Jahr has accused Ms. O'Donnell of "a campaign of misinformation" to "foster the illusion that she was being mistreated".

"In the early years of radio, comedians fostered the illusion that all of those funny sayings came right out of their own skulls".