Sentence examples for held illusion from inspiring English sources

In the weeks following the election, I would have liked more emphasis on the margin of Obama's victory in the popular vote -- almost five million -- to dispute the widely held illusion that the election was close.

He agreed with Schopenhauer that mind is an instrument of instinct to be used in the service of life and power, and he held that illusion is as necessary to human beings as truth.

Still, he held no illusions.

Egypt held no illusions that Israel could be vanquished.

Yet Larkin held no illusions about personal freedom.

Clijsters held no illusions as to her status in this tournament.

In Hungary, communists held no illusions about their own unpopularity since the crushing of the 1956 revolution.

They were search and rescue teams but held few illusions about what they were looking for — the dogs that specialize in finding survivors were not the ones the city sought.

His friends agree that Swartz was someone who held no illusions, who was aware of the world's fundamental injustices and who wanted to tackle them rather than pretend they didn't exist.

And it's true that when people use the word "McCarthyism" as a synonym for "anti-Communism," they expunge from history all those people who held no illusions about American Communists yet still defended, to varying degrees, their civil liberties.

However, he held no illusions about the prospect of successfully driving out the French, stating "It is our destiny.