Sentence examples for illusion of continuity from inspiring English sources
At first glance, the massive presence of the world's leading dealers in Old Master paintings gives the illusion of continuity.
Stalin was actually incomparably worse than his predecessors all the way back to the Mongol Khan Batu, but the illusion of continuity makes him look less bad.
Readers expect an illusion of continuity, and once the illusion locks in, they credit the historian with having brought the past to life.
An illusion of continuity is produced that can turn nonsense into sense, even as the medium's compression and fracturing of time can have the opposite effect.
Premised on the illusion of continuity, the movie is composed of 11 shots, joined with sneaky camera movements and hidden edits.
The actors are always on — not on camera but onstage, always needing to do something to be looked at, to sustain an illusion of continuity and a solid block of characterization that the movies don't require.
Images of their daily lives are poignant; a relentless dislocation making any semblance of continuity an illusion to which they will always aspire.
What needed to be said had to be phrased in language as well-worn and conventional as possible, to give the illusion of smooth continuity between Obama's speech and those of past presidents.
Interactive applications are particularly challenging as they demand a frame rate of at least 30 fps to ensure the illusion of visual continuity.
Painted in a luxurious shade of dark gold to evoke that which is sacred, Bakshi says the containers' walls, floors, and ceilings are fully carpeted to absorb noise and create the illusion of spatial continuity.
One objection (that can be traced back to Kant) against dualism is that the dualist is unable to account for the possibility that the soul or immaterial self is constantly being replaced by different individual selves, (with complete updated "memories" and psychological qualities) thus creating the illusion of personal continuity of the self-same subject.
