Sentence examples for illusion rather than from inspiring English sources

The comparison is an illusion rather than an analogy.

Yet most of these ruin the illusion rather than prolong it.

But unlike Balanchine and Cunningham, Nikolais was interested in sleight-of-hand and eye, in visual illusion rather than the expansion of a dance vocabulary.

Ms. Elmo, who has a fantastical imagination, stated in press notes that the dance was created on the premise that "authenticity is an illusion rather than a reality".

The lengthy descriptions of cooking that we find in modern literature are a way of artfully representing, rather than actually reproducing, our mental life — a modelled illusion, rather than a snapshot of the thing.

The CGI rendering of Spider-Man swinging across rooftops was seamlessly interwoven with real actors and real cityscapes to the point that viewers would forget that during crucial scenes we were watching a computer-generated illusion rather than a real person.

Today, the representative of Burkina Faso, Michel Kafando, told the Security Council that this was a "report built on illusions rather than on certainties".

Adapted from the Disney movie (based on the Rudyard Kipling stories) and directed by Mary Zimmerman, this modestly scaled and refreshingly spectacle-free family musical seeks to kindle children's imaginations by softly blurring the line between man and beast, relying on the talents of designers and performers to create illusions rather than dazzling the senses with elaborate effects.

" 'Another Such Victory,' " he writes, "is a book for aging revisionists who wish it were still 1975 and that they still had honest illusions (rather than today's desperate self-deceptions)" -- the chief self-deception being, in Mr. Mark's view, Professor Offner's contention that Stalin had few if any international ambitions for Communism.

The purpose of the vestibular habituation training was to let pilots bear greater vestibular stimulation by improving their ability to suppress vestibular illusions, rather than the training for gymnasts to improve their balance control [ 25].

I don't think human misery is an illusion, and, rather than go into total denial about it, I'd like to learn of some ways to deal with it.