Sentence examples for illusion of value from inspiring English sources

Managers rated those at the office to be more dependable and industrious, regardless of the quality of their work.Visibility creates the illusion of value.

Part of the allure of doing one big shop is that you're likely to find everything you want, can drive the heavy shopping home, and there's an illusion of value with so many discounts, even though it's been shown that this ultimately leads to wasted, rotting food lingering in the veg drawer.

With much less tact, I explained that, indeed, mispricing of assets at an inflated price could have been deliberately used to create the illusion of value, and this could then have been used to create the very real rewards of wealth for the financial engineering wizards responsible for the scheme.

Perish the thought that the Emperor of Objective Science should be seen to have no clothes precisely by comparison with the richly-clad apparel of scientists free of the illusion of value-free science.

This provides the illusion of good value, without the necessity of discounting the price of the hardware itself, on which margins are rather tight.

Ubisoft wants to implement the DRM regime in order to cut down on piracy while giving you the illusion of added value.

Junk bonds created the illusion of great value for the Wall Street Investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, the fifth largest investment bank in the United States -- until it went bankrupt in 1990.

In a profession that values the illusion of infallibility, Sotomayor has been unusually willing to acknowledge murky areas.

Thus, thinking in Darwinian terms, the illusion of an enlarged moon has survival value as it announces the best time to go fishing.

Although there's an occasional hint of a narrative, people rarely appear; he lets their snapshots of the things they value, and an illusion of individuality common to us all, speak for them.

It is worth thinking about the centrality we have given these exhumations of classic productions in our cultural life, why we so value the seductive illusion of authenticity they offer.