Near the center of Greenville there stands an old white church, with a delicate spire and handsome steps leading down from a colonnade — the kind of building that makes an illusion of space around itself.
But of course Gough's own role in Duncan Macmillan's play about many kinds of addiction – including an addiction to escaping into the illusions of theatre itself – is a small but telling example of the progress that has been made in putting women centre stage.
The producers had toyed with the idea of having Hall play herself but rejected it because, as Robe noted, it "blurred the line between the illusion of reality and reality itself". The docudrama picks up North's life at 21 when he was badly injured in an automobile accident that nearly cost him his military career.
Hollywood's stock in trade is illusion, of course, principally about itself.
At times there is almost something of the old amateur spirit about all this, the illusion of effortless superiority, in itself a form of intimidation.
When Scorsese shoots a grand fresco of degradation and ecstasy, of a world after the fall, his blend of video and film fills the bill: the illusion of limitless power is itself a part of his tragic sense.
Awakening to the emptiness of all things, to their lack of substantial own-being or egoity (Japanese: shogyōmuga), thus frees one both from an ego-centered and reified view of things, and from the illusion of the substantial ego itself.
And when Harris notes, in italics: "The illusion of free will is itself an illusion," I'm thinking, what?
The beautiful success of Wells Fargo proves itself to be an illusion of success.
The illusion of the new soon revealed itself as such, however, as Viktor Skripnik's Green and Whites were destroyed 6-0 with frightening ease.
