Illusions aside, the success or failure of the project will ultimately rest on how well the stair system works for the people inside, and the answer here is not quite clear.
The inference is that Israelis should take up arms and put aside illusions.
Dermatologists, Shriners, and members of the Modem Language Association convene to compare specialized notes, dress up, and read papers, and the members of our major political parties seem to have put aside the illusion that the purpose of their gatherings is very much different.
Its main difference from the 2012 campaign -- which featured the first single-candidate presidential super PACs -- is that candidates now have tossed aside the illusion of super PAC independence.
After numerous humiliations, he finally casts aside his illusions, returns home, and dies.
But fond illusions about "free" services aside, it's hard to see how a system in which Catholic hospitals and colleges are required to purchase health insurance for their employees from insurers that are required to cover birth control, sterilizations and the morning- and days-after pills is meaningfully different from the original Health and Human Services mandate.
White smells an agenda here: "We are truly meant to be excited about the liberation of creativity in the workplace," he writes, "and we are certainly meant to be excited that leading the way is the ever-enlarging world of neuroscience that has set aside old illusions about the Muses and put in their place the softly glowing illumination of the human brain firmly held in its creative harness".
It can, if its citizens are ready to cast aside their nationalist illusions and recognize their interdependence with the people of other nations.
The Card ultimately issues a warning against such acts of sin, and enlightens listeners that The Great Milenko is a part of every individual, and that they have the power to fall under his illusions or cast his hoaxes aside.
And after directing two fairly unprofitable films -- "Nightbreed" (1990) and "Lord of Illusions" (1995) -- he has set aside film direction in favor of running his own production company and selecting projects to produce, including "Gods and Monsters," the account of the life of the gay horror director James Whale that starred Ian McKellan and won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay in 1998.
