Sentence examples for illusion of mainstream from inspiring English sources

Hitchcock, in his replies, proved that the illusion of mainstream effortlessness rose from tiny choices made with intention and care.

The elevation of occasional stars from the periphery gave the illusion of a larger mainstream embrace, but this was deceptive.

Berkeley didn't escape the prejudices of his times; just as the illusion of the Hollywood mainstream was defined by the absence of the people and perspectives it excluded, his own conceptual depth and power of expression are inseparable from the narrowness of his sensibility.

His wife, Maureen, is a unaspiring housewife who cooks dinners and dresses up for Dallas every week, while Charlie toddles off to work every day assuming that things will never change – an illusion shared by much of mainstream Britain in the pre-Thatcher days.

But for the author of mainstream fiction, monetization for most practitioners is still an illusion.

The long-range trend in modern movie history is the dispersion of the center — it's commonplace that Hollywood movies no longer offer a core of mainstream entertainment, because American society itself no longer presents the illusion of unity.

"It shattered the illusion of editorial voice in many of the mainstream magazines.

There is the collapse of mainstream parties.

A mixture of mainstream, probable Oscar winners ("The Master"), exclusive-to-the-area Sundance darlings ("Hello I Must Be Going") and foreign classics ("Grand Illusion") will make up the opening week.

Yet the move from playing a fictional character to doing mainstream pop traditionally requires a lowering of that guard (or at least the illusion of its lowering).

Mainstream political debate ignores this, and concerns itself mainly with how best to maintain an elaborate illusion of strict and punitive control, usually citing especial concern about "young people".