Sentence examples for illusions around from inspiring English sources

This collection explores the illusions around which we construct our lives.

You wouldn't be able to tell this from sex trade ads because it would be incredibly bad marketing, but it's the illusion around which sex work turns.

The illusion around Christmas is that Santa comes, flies the whole globe and pops down chimneys even where they don't exist.

One man attempts to describe an illusion by running around in circles making frightened goose noises.

Alternatively, if the effect is determined by tACS windowing action, we would specifically predict a significant change in the probability of illusion only around the inflection points but not at the extreme interbeep intervals.

"The Things You Know," which depicts two elderly widows who each know something compromising about the other's late husband, quickly devolves into a predictable fable about the illusions people construct around their own pasts.

This charisma, together with the ambitions and illusions of those around him, enabled the Führer to compel obedience from the four most powerful men in Germany — Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Albert Speer — and from most of the institutions they controlled in the party, the security services and the economy.

Satirists find in fads human foibles writ large; Melville's "Confidence Man" and Twain's "Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" are built around the illusions that lead people to deny what their eyes see in favor of what their hearts desire.

It just pushes the fat around, giving a momentary illusion of flatness.

And does it not give the badly performing contestants at least the illusion of a reason for staying around?

Then, on June 4 , 1989 tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square smashed the illusions held by many people around the world about the Chinese Communist Party's program of "openness and reform".