Sentence examples for illusion of flight from inspiring English sources

Also, travel gave the Romantic writer the illusion of flight from his wearied self.

It is perhaps 2008's archetypal platforming game, built around jumping, climbing, leaping, running along walls and even attaining the illusion of flight in moments of balletic grace.

After wowing audiences with the illusion of flight he craves something bigger, and alights upon the idea of "disappearing" the World Trade Center.

At other moments, the puppeteers lift their actors into the air with a startling ease that gives the illusion of flight.

Her choice of narratives gives us jinn and peris (genies and fairies), magicians, speaking talismans and the archetypal figure of Aladdin, master of illusions, of flights and of vanishing acts.

I was always very aware, as all flight attendants are, that the most important role that a flight attendant has, besides ensuring the safety of passengers, is to create the illusion of the flight crew's emotional invincibility.

The biggest applause of the night went to David Parsons's signature solo, "Caught" (1982), which uses strobe lighting and one very athletic dancer (here Miguel Quinones) to give an illusion of bounding flight.

Fantasy of Flight returns.

The choreography of Giselle's second act does everything in its power to render weightless its ranks of ghostly jilted virgins, straining for the illusion of floating and flight.

The unbearable lightness of an entire existence, the illusion of a bird in flight.

And though in doing so it seems to gain an illusion of certainty, in the frequent flight to extremes it risks losing the considered center.