Sentence examples for illusion imposed from inspiring English sources

The valley is divided between those who pray for stability and others who describe the calm as a temporary illusion imposed by the military boot.

But the intrepid crew in "The Matrix" carries no set of laughable but touching social conventions, for the simple reason that their society is nothing but an illusion, imposed on them by predatory aliens.

Set in a geographically scrambled Los Angeles, "They Live" is about a muscular loner (played by the professional wrestler Roddy Piper) who drifts into town looking for work, and accidentally comes across an apparatus, indistinguishable from a pair of cheap plastic sunglasses, that reveals the real world as an illusion imposed by an alien race.

This was an illusion when it was first imposed, more than sixty years ago, upon the 700,000 Arab refugees of the 1948 war, and it remains an illusion now, when the number of Palestinians registered by UNRWA has ballooned to almost five million - for the simple reason that Palestinians, in contrast to other refugee populations, are obliged to transfer refugee status to their descendants.

From the beginning, the Wooster Group was known for the odd mixture of democratic illusion and despotic charm that she imposed.

"One gets the impression," Freud wrote in The Future of an Illusion (1927) "that culture is something imposed on a reluctant majority by a minority that managed to gain possession of the instruments of power and coercion".

The judge in the case, Sir Nigel Sweeney, warned Ms. Pryce that she should have "no illusions" about the sentence likely to be imposed, a phrase commonly used to warn of a prison term.

The spatial illusions of Baroque paintings were beyond the limitations imposed by the stained-glass medium.

Now, Jacobi objected to what he took to be the existentially impossible requirement thus being imposed on reason, namely, that it should generate illusions for the sake of the understanding, yet be fully aware that such illusions are just that.

They impose the illusion of order on a chaotic life; they cement our place within and commitment to a collective.

Of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, Borges seems to have been the least convinced by himself — by the imposing public illusion of his own fame.