Sentence examples for illusion of getting from inspiring English sources

"Sometimes it's just the illusion of getting him in there," Crowton said, pointing out how it can put a defense off balance.

By pricing the best seats at ninety-five dollars, however, Springsteen was giving fans like Maria Shwalb the illusion of getting a good seat for cheap, when in fact many of the best seats never went on sale at all.

A similar illusion of getting even appears to have been at work in the shooting of two New York City cops last winter (a killing that has already receded in memory, though not, surely, for the families of the victims).

No more saving coppers in jars, dropping spare coins in charity boxes; no cash means no change, the end of that faint illusion of getting something back on the transaction.

Presumably this is deliberate on Mr. Kadare's part, but it means that the reader has to give up some of the traditional pleasures of the novel — the illusion of getting to know flesh-and-blood people — for the more head-spinning sensation of looking at them through a fun-house mirror.

"It's a religious issue to us in that it promotes greed and fosters the illusion of getting something for nothing," said the Rev. Michael Hamlet, senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of North Spartanburg and one of the leaders of the antilottery effort.

They are about depression and loneliness, yes, but they're also about money: money and class and snobbery and what it means if you can't afford to eat or your shoes are wearing out and you can no longer keep up the little genteel illusions, the ways of getting by, of being accepted in society.

We have no illusions about the difficulty of getting a vote soon on campaign reform.

If you would like to create the illusion of curves, get a dress that hugs the torso area and then flares out.

We hold no illusions about the political feasibility of getting people to Congress to enact Justice Alito's "Plan B. But what is merely a fragile hope from one point of view is a political opportunity from another.

Standing on Pearl Street in Manhattan on Sept. 11 and watching the twin towers crumble before my eyes obliterated my tolerance for illusions, and the Bowl Championship Series is just one more illusion to get rid of.