Sentence examples for illusion of being something from inspiring English sources

His show again achieved the illusion of being something more than a contemporary-priced collection.

The illusion of indispensability is something which affects most professionals at one point or another in their careers.

In other words, the appearance of transparency is an illusion; there is something between us and the world beyond the spinning wheel, something solid and real; as tangible as the pigment that, in Las Meninas, is on the brush Velázquez wields as he works on the tall canvas with its back turned towards us, painting, we presume, a double portrait of the royal couple, ourselves.

But by the end of this 90-minute comedy even the actors seem done in by the effort of sustaining the illusion that there's something important going on.

You have the illusion of being disembodied.

That, of course, is something of an illusion: history is nothing if not subjective.

The size and weight of Pteranodon are something of an optical illusion.

"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".

Apparently the giant freak-of-nature had been dragging branches into the eaves, just outside my bedroom, creating the auditory illusion of something being dragged across the floor.

Although the importance of PRFSs seems based on their distribution of universities' research funding, this is something of an illusion, and the literature agrees that it is the competition for prestige created by a PRSF that creates powerful incentives within university systems.

In follow-up discussions with Bossis, Patrick Mettes spoke of his body and his cancer as a "type of illusion" and how there might be "something beyond this physical body".