Sentence examples for illusionary device from inspiring English sources
Along the way, we pass through the Italian Renaissance and the modern transition from the sacred to the secular, from the content-laden form of the religious icon to the illusionary device of single-point perspective.
In these early traditions of mural design, in China, India, Mexico, Egypt, Crete, and Byzantium, no illusionary devices were used to deny the true flatness of the wall surface; images were silhouetted against a flatly painted ground framed by decorative dadoes (the decoration adorning the lower part of an interior wall) of stylized motifs in repeat patterns.
This device merges old technology and new using an old illusionary technique called pepper's ghost, invented by John Henry Pepper in the 1860.
SCOTCH PLAINS-FANWOOD HIllusionary"Illusionary Magic," Brad Ross, magician.
It's all relatively illusionary, of course.
BARNES & NOBLE Illusionary Magic of Brad Ross.
Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity.
In applications like comparison-shopping, there is a need for an illusionary centralized homogeneous information system.
The idea of "academic freedom" is a nice one, but largely illusionary.
Back then, her promises to reform the political system quickly proved illusionary.
