Sentence examples for illusion like from inspiring English sources

The spell is an illusion, like a lot of his life.

This of course is just an illusion, like film itself; we are seeing what isn't there.

"I had this illusion, like most people do, that the F.D.A. wouldn't allow this to happen," she said.

The stars you see in the unfathomable distance aren't a mere illusion, like fairy lights studded into a black curtain of a stage backdrop, but real orbs.

Ultimately, I look forward to the clean, untarnished slate the new year promises — though, of course, I understand that purity is an illusion, like all things".

On the other hand, you never think that he's some synthetic, airbrushed illusion — like many of the stadium-playing chart toppers of today — held together by smoke, mirrors and synthesizers.

(v.18) This is so because despite the fact that whatever is dependently arisen lacks intrinsic reality, and therefore empty, nonetheless its existence is illusion-like.

In that regard, it makes me feel that there's an illusion, just like magic, like stage magic.

I know because I'm in advertising, and I create illusions like this for companies like Prudential".

In his "House of Ghostly Haunts" Cardone specializes in illusions like swallowing razor blades, dropping guillotines and conjuring the spirit of Elvis.

We're going for close-up magic, but also grand illusions like materialising a helicopter on stage".