Sentence examples for illusion of activity from inspiring English sources

Louboutin took a few laps through the area every day, in the hope of creating an illusion of activity.

If you are away for a few hours, you can set up props to create the illusion of activity around the house.

"I can work for long periods without the constant flurry of meetings that gives the illusion of activity but that doesn't actually produce anything".

PAGE B1 Trading Sleight of Hand Energy concerns trying to build a market for high-speed communications capacity used trades to create the illusion of activity.

He claims: "Many are dominated by the pursuit of prestige, refusal to admit errors and by a desire to react to media coverage which is much simpler than problem solving or management and provides a comforting illusion of activity".

"In previous elections, police went house to house and invited people to go to vote, but for the recent presidential and parliamentary elections the authorities didn't even care to create the illusion of activity," he said.

We create the illusion of actual activity on these forums.

Everything else is a great show designed to provide the illusion of administration activity when it has no plan.

They post these missives to their Web sites, providing the illusion of passionate activity to the voters back home.

The landscape in eastern Germany remains barren -- emptier even than during Communist times, when the planned economy supplied jobs and at least the illusion of commercial activity.

Their accusations painted a picture of a financial Potemkin village, where Mr. Madoff used inexperienced clerks to send out fraudulent account statements, relied on lies and bogus books to keep regulators at bay and shifted money between New York and London banks to give the illusion of investment activity.