Sentence examples for illusion arguing from inspiring English sources

Just four years before the outbreak of the first world war, Norman Angell, a British economist, published a book called "The Great Illusion", arguing that war in Europe was unthinkably irrational because of the depth of European economic integration.That, as far as the Eurocrats are concerned, leaves the third factor as the real insurance policy: political integration.

In this universe, certainty and truth are impossible and Baudrillard takes the side of illusion, arguing in Impossible Exchange (2001) that: "Illusion is the fundamental rule" (p. 6).

In a sense, they are rather like Sir Norman Angell, the journalist whose book "The Great Illusion" argued in 1910 that war was economically irrational because of the damage it would cause.

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.

Murtha's statement had condemned the Bush Administration's conduct of the war as "a flawed policy wrapped in illusion," argued that the occupation was impeding progress in Iraq and putting the future of the American military at risk, and called for American troops to be redeployed as "a quick reaction force in the region".

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.

Decorum is an illusion, and arguing about it is often a waste of time.

At one extreme, the "Great Illusion" school argues that almost no civilians were killed, and that most of the deaths were legal killings of soldiers in plain clothes.

Norman Angell's The Great Illusion (1910) argued that it already had been transcended: that interdependence among nations made war illogical and counterproductive.

"Qaddafi is a master of illusion," he argues, "and he learned very early on who to antagonize and who not to.

In the realistic theatre of illusion, he argued, the spectator tended to identify with the characters on stage and become emotionally involved with them rather than being stirred to think about his own life.