Sentence examples similar to illusion grew from inspiring English sources

The now-familiar adage of the house-as-ATM-machine was very real, and sustained the illusion of growing disposable income until the music came to an abrupt halt in July 2008 when consumer debt peaked.

The line between illusion and lie grew indistinct.

I wanted to deal with this theme in the city of manufactured illusion, which I grew up in and had my childish reactions to and childish confusion about.

I have pretty grand illusions of growing flax and garbanzo beans (which for the record, never come to fruition).

The Blessing family grew up illusion free.

On the other hand, I spent long periods of "Marie Antoinette" under the growing illusion that it was actually made by Paris Hilton.

Stranger still, how subjects perceive the illusion seems to depend on where they grew up.