Sentence examples for ideological illusion from inspiring English sources

The president, who has shut out reality for seven years, justified continuing in his world of ideological illusion by saying that he would not be "blinded" to the realities of the world.

Subjectivity was neither a transcendent fact nor an ideological illusion; it was, rather, an artifact of the metaphors and narratives through which we endlessly seek to "configure" the riddles of our existence.

In that sense, "Crisis in Six Scenes" isn't just Allen's "American Pastoral"; it's also his version of "Radical Chic"— Tom Wolfe's vision of a social set in the nineteen-sixties, his social set, whose members came under the influence of a romantic ideological illusion and found themselves unintentionally spouting cant and defending terrorists and tyrants.

Scholars in the field must intensify their efforts to study the actual effects of civic integration policies, and, by providing such factual grounding, they must help shelter policy developments in the field from the worst entrapments of 'common sense' ideological illusions about what works and why.

Moreover, he believes he is a foreign policy guru despite routinely issuing simplistic policy prescriptions based on ideological illusions.

Tragically, every effort to actualize such ideological illusions inflicts collective trauma on those whom we attack, and they respond with an intensification of their resurrective ideologies.

The first requirement is, perhaps, to encourage leaders to abandon their ideological approaches and other illusions and to assess the situation that confronts them as honestly and realistically as possible.

Such illusions sometimes have ideological traits so that they can "manifest themselves in, or underlie, the thought, speech, aims, interests, ideals, ethical standards, actions – in short, the behaviour – of an individual human being".[4, 5].

Is our sacrosanct separation of church and state, our beloved "laicité", an illusion in a world under ideological stress?

Over centuries, wars have been fought for many reasons; as a result of cartographical illusions, land grabs, border disputes, ideological imperialism, and increasingly as a result of a perceived threat to national security.

Despite their differences, both "orthodox" and "dissident" Surrealists endorsed and developed the transformative force of mythogenesis as a critical ideological, and potentially multifaceted political, response to post-Enlightenment positivist totalities, linearities, and illusions.