Sentence examples for illusion against from inspiring English sources

If New York police films always pit illusion against reality, the stranger-than-fiction career of Sonny Grosso, a former city detective whose real-life exploits were portrayed by Roy Scheider in "The French Connection," is their perfect synthesis.

It is undeniable that human beings have always longed for more, have yearned for possessions that will serve as a bulwark against existential desolation, as an illusion against eternity – the tombs of history are strewn with precious objects to accompany the deceased even into the afterlife.

He adds that the illusion against which his pseudonymous writings are directed is an illusion about what Christianity requires, and that these writings, though employing philosophical tools, thus subserve a religious intent.

The documentary juxtaposes these movie illusions against the moment when the smoke billowing out of the World Trade Center was real.

JANET JONES San Francisco, Sept. 15, 2013 To the Editor: Although "Two-State Illusion" argues against a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine, most of the main historical analogies the writer cites demonstrate exactly the opposite outcome.

Such a man secures hope against illusion, and by example refutes any argument against the plausibility of historical action.

Although a ceiling effect in the older group of children may have prevented small lip-reading differences from being revealed, the absence of a significant correlation between lip-reading ability and the frequency of McGurk illusions argues against this explanation.

It pits "truth" against illusion, yet even that truth is a Pirandellian invention.

Madison, then an opponent of a Bill of Rights, later explained the vote by calling the state bills of rights "parchment barriers" that offered only an illusion of protection against tyranny.

In the end, its arrangements of blue, black and red are entirely abstract, and the evocative illusion soon dissipates against the ineffable fact that it is not a pastoral seascape, but in fact a modern abstract painting.

According to this retrospective self-assessment, the whole of Kierkegaard's work "is related to Christianity, to the problem 'of becoming a Christian,' with a direct or indirect polemic against the monstrous illusion we call Christendom, or against the illusion that in such a land as ours all are Christians of a sort" (1848, 5 6).