Sentence examples for illusion of authenticity from inspiring English sources

Some inaccuracies are introduced to create an illusion of authenticity.

Far too often, the illusion of authenticity is shattered by ham-fisted dialogue in which every note of grandiosity rings an alarm.

And I was reminded that for certain roles, a touch of the phony is just what's needed to create an illusion of authenticity.

It is worth thinking about the centrality we have given these exhumations of classic productions in our cultural life, why we so value the seductive illusion of authenticity they offer.

Hope did have one piece of luck: he came into his prime just as the talking pictures and radio were demanding the posture of ease the illusion of authenticity which was Hope's biggest performing asset.

Hope did have one piece of luck: he came into his prime just as the talking pictures and radio were demanding the posture of ease — the illusion of authenticity which was Hope's biggest performing asset.

In a display of movie costumes, a label reads that designers and producers "create their own visions of the West and Westerners," often providing "illusions of authenticity".

By reducing his Watson materials to one volume, Matthiessen has sacrificed qualities that gave those novels their powerful reinforcing illusions of authenticity and artlessness.

Ingenious methods have been made to accommodate all the latest luxuries without disturbing the illusion of historic authenticity; sliding doors roll back from a convincing antique armoire to reveal a television set on which it is possible to get CNN and the BBC.

In all this there is, as its creators acknowledge and embrace, a strange play of authenticity and illusion, a switchback of unreal/real/unreal.

She wishes to approach larger questions of how a writer finds her voice, for example, or how a spiritual "virgin" sorts illusion from authenticity, growth from surrender.