Sentence examples for happy illusion from inspiring English sources

But budget day disposed of my happy illusion.

Lists are wonderful precisely because they create the happy illusion of order.

In an individual life, the time of happy illusion is childhood; in historical terms, the happiest people were Leopardi's beloved Greeks, who still believed in the gods and in eternal glory.

Then the intervention of a caring adult or an after-school program for children at risk turns the potential delinquent into a dutiful citizen and leaves the viewer with the happy illusion that despair and crime will be eradicated as soon as the right social policies are in place.

Eventually this happy illusion will vanish.

Step 4: Now that your skin is all aglow, counteract your exhausted look (which usually one can see under the eyes in the form of puffiness or dark circles) by distracting your audience's attention and playing up a different feature with a bright color: YOUR LIPS! Red lips, florissant lips, berry stain or gloss or both will immediately create a well-rested, happy illusion that can win any crowd.

We start in the first place in large part because we are captives of fashion -- the imperative to emulate our teenage peers, the allure of countless hipsters and renegades and screen seducers, the relentless happy illusions of tobacco industry propaganda.

Walking around Santa Fe on a sunny afternoon, you might almost succumb to the happy, restorative illusion that McDonald's, the Gap and Starbucks are not colossal, competition-swallowing international chains, but local concerns.

(She warns against too much nostalgia for the memory-happy past: "An illusion of community was created because tremendous numbers of people learned exactly the same texts").

As he scrawls phrases over the white backdrop, taking suggestions from the audience and their texting friends, Drummond creates the illusion of happy chaos.

Over the past decade, ticket prices have swelled, along with the franchise player's head, as the Knicks indulged him every which way to make him happy and maintain their illusion of contention.