Sentence examples for illusion of taking from inspiring English sources

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Punch's critic praised the "startling vividness" of the writing, which gave "the illusion of taking a peep into a past which is made to come alive".

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But for another classic illusion polymer brings advances: The trick of taking someone's money, marking it and making it reappear in a piece of fruit.

Then they began constructing the illusion of authority, taking offices on Sand Hill Road and filling them with paintings by Robert Rauschenberg and Sol LeWitt — another page from the book of Ovitz, who commissioned a Roy Lichtenstein painting for C.A.A.'s lobby that was so large the firm had to leave it behind when it moved.

A lengthy investigative report by Human Rights Watch and Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute entitled "Illusion of Justice" takes on the controversial "sting" operations that law enforcement officials have defended as an essential element of the federal government's counterterrorism strategy.

Freud remarked: "I do not know how to avoid the conclusion that a man who is capable of taking the illusions of religion so literally and is so sure of a special personal intimacy with the Almighty is unfitted for relations with ordinary children of men.

Maybe it's a valid worry, that our emotional reaction to a news story gives us the comforting illusion of having taken action, thus freeing us from the burden of taking to the streets in protest, collecting donations or even voting.

In summary, connection diagrams 48 give a comforting illusion of understanding a system, but we should all be wary of taking these networks at face value.

Rather than the public illusion, she gets a private illusion to take its place (which, she says, is fostered by the closed-in social world of Mob families associating only with each other).

Illusion, according to Nyāya, is to be analyzed similarly, but unlike veridical cases of projection illusion involves taking something to be what it is not, a seeing or perceiving it through a "misplaced" qualifier.

"The mind is left to create the illusion of what was taking place," Mr. Bray said.

He criticized the episode's beginning, where "a seemingly large evergreen forest looming" can be seen, saying that it ruined the illusion of the show taking place in Santa Barbara.

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