Sentence examples for illusion born from inspiring English sources

On screen, they always looked as if they had a combined age of about 30, but it was an illusion born of exuberance.

("A woman in whom there was a total absence of illusion, born no doubt of the long exercise of her profession.

They are, as George Harrison sang, illusions born of and built around the fiction of separateness.

This was an optical illusion, he said, born of the eventual success of Generation X.

The disadvantages in the construction of self-identity comprise: (1) greater reliance on online games to gain confidence and praise; and (2) more self-illusion in those born in July and August to compensate for adaptation crises in real life.

I sometimes wonder where people get this illusion that they were born "superior"?

He should be under no illusions as to his debating opponent: born in Leeds, raised in Otley, Armitstead does not want for Yorkshire grit.

Ann is rich and white and wants to be neither, confiding, "I wish I had been born poor"; Georgette has no illusions about poverty, having just escaped her depressed home town, where "whole families drank themselves to disgrace".

Schiaparelli's story is complex, a kind of "Lost Illusions" that begins in Rome, where she was born in 1890, rather than the French countryside.

Mr. Pearlstein, born in 1924 and now 85, pursued illusion via images of the human body.

In Drawing Hands, space and the flat plane coexist, each born from and returning to the other, the black magic of the artistic illusion made creepily manifest.