Sentence examples for illusion of doing something from inspiring English sources

And if the weather permits an outdoor post, as it did this splendid summer, one can preserve the illusion of doing something healthy while sitting.

Blurring the lines in this way – facilitating the pollution of the blogosphere while creating an illusion of doing something good for the public, is a good business move for PayPerPost.

The $15K anti-piracy box seems misplaced, and just there to give Hollywood the illusion that they are doing something.

It may be an illusion of control, but "it's a way of feeling like I'm doing something.

Dr Helen Czerski, a physicist at University College London, said of the illusion: "By staring at the dot in the middle of the screen, my brain, and if you do it your brain, is doing something remarkable.

'I think for Jimmy to be that close to Sly, he had to be doing something that was very important to the situation.' Anyone who has done cocaine will be familiar with the temporary illusion of omnipotence it affords you.

Instead of watching, do something.

But the best children's fantasy does something else: it gives one the illusion that the magical world is as consistent and real as one's own world - that it exists, just barely out of reach.

-- we might come to see where our narcissistic illusions lie, and perhaps even do something about them.

He concludes, rather splendidly, that the loss of such illusions flings open the door "to do something really extraordinary: to see ourselves as we really are" and use that knowledge to behave with more humanity.

It rearranged the conceptual space of the tank and gave the illusion that Fish now had something to do, something to work around, during his languorous afternoon laps, and she found herself going in to watch him, giving deep philosophical consideration to his actions: Did Fish remember that he had passed that way before?