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.

How the illusion is perceived depends on what language a listener grew up speaking, researchers reported here on 7 December at the Acoustical Society of America's 140th meeting.

"It is more and more difficult for them to hold the illusion that the monarchy is universally adored," says a Thai academic.This illusion is crumbling amid growing worry about what happens when the king's reign ends.

Nazneen suffers under the weight of his illusions and his failure, never making her own wishes known, and then meets a handsome young man, Karim (Christopher Simpson), who grew up in London and has no illusions about anything.

The binary fire-engine siren of the violin's opening line grew multiple dimensions as the distortion created the illusion of spatial and acoustic depth.