Maybe everything is illusion, empty, whatever, but inside that experience is suffering, and it would be better to have less of it.
Whatever illusion he had of that was shattered on Aug. 8, 1994.
But the truth is the entire game is about creating an illusion, and for whatever reason, and mad as it may sound, some part of me can allow myself to believe for a period for time without questioning, and that's the trick".
Even if we include subtle blendings of autobiography and creation, effective writing will basically involve us in complex linguistic manipulations that we hope will provide the illusion of intimate exposure, or whatever other illusions we deem appropriate.
Whatever illusions I still held about myself were in tatters.
Starting out on a note of hope, he is quick to pierce whatever illusions he might have had.
"Whatever illusions are established will get their starkest test when the relationship shifts from online to offline," said Joseph B. Walther, an associate professor of communication at Cornell University who has studied transitions from virtual relationships to real ones.
Whatever illusions the Bush administration may entertain about a more detached American role in the Middle East should be erased by the rapidly escalating violence in the region, including yesterday's deadly terrorist bombing in Israel and the retaliatory Israeli air strikes.
Whatever illusions the Roman leadership had, they were shattered by the arrival of the Parthian delegation to Rome in the spring of 63.
Whatever illusions once existed about Michael Jordan not being a warped, rageful asshole the Ayn Rand ideal of a prime mover come to implausibly elegant and predictably brutal life were clearly illusions even at the height of his beauty.
