Sentence examples for illusion really from inspiring English sources

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Old and leafy, vaguely Central European, it retains a veneer — an illusion, really — of its prewar prosperity.

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Then I picked up a copy of Adam Langer's new novel Ellington Boulevard and realized how baseless my illusions really were.

She is both that object in the mirror and is not; the mirror-image is an illusion (not really her) and yet only by seeing oneself as this illusion can one begin the process of self-mastery.

And it helps you realize how tentative our illusion control really is.

"The optical illusion is really produced by the person who's looking at the painting.

Celia grows to be an illusionist whose illusions aren't really illusions (she turns clothing into birds and can change the color of a fabric with her mind, among other powers); Marco can create entire worlds at will, invented environments of great beauty, simply by passing his hands over one's eyes.

From trying to figure out if a shape is actually moving to whether it's changing colour, the best optical illusions can really addle your brain.

F1: "I had big illusions, and really high expectations concerning joining a group practice".

"It's just an illusion of control, really, but that illusion is everything.

You left the theater with the heartening illusion that it really is possible to know people thoroughly, after all.

We should be under no illusion that the really big thing in the world, which will have an impact on our living standards is what happens in China.

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