Sentence examples for illusions of making from inspiring English sources

We surely can avoid impulsive and unnecessary buys, and definitely make good and clever ones if we only controlled our shopping frenzy and calmed down our illusions of making great deals everywhere we can read SALE.

"It gives the illusion of making the wine but with none of the mess," she said.

Alternatively, if picking out details is too distracting, you can look at or just above people's heads to give the illusion of making eye contact.

It is easy to tell yourself that any action you take will offer only "the illusion" of "making a difference" (and therefore to do nothing).

"If you put in a lot of paper, you give the illusion that you might have something more than you actually have — an illusion of making something out of nothing," Mr. Naftalis said.

"If you put in a lot of paper, you give the illusion that you might have something more than you actually have — an illusion of making something out of nothing," said Gary P. Naftalis, a lawyer for Mr. Gupta.

Having explicitly warned us that thinking about the time-travelling mechanics of the plot too much "just fries your brain", this barrels along fast enough to create the illusion of making sense – almost.

At 93mm the 3DS XL is roughly the same depth as the original system, but the added width (156mm compared with the 3DS's 138mm) has the strange and welcome illusion of making the handheld feel slimmer in the hands.

For senior managers, moving up the career ladder often creates the pleasant illusion of making fewer mistakes--or at least that's the feedback many believe they get from their subordinates.

"I had the illusion of making a new life with her, because my life in Guatemala was unbearable," she said.

But throughout this clever show, strange spatial compressions, surreal displacements and quasi-Futurist illusions of movement make it clear that this is not your average locker full of mothballed sweaters, unwanted furniture and old athletic gear.