Sentence examples for illusions of something from inspiring English sources
Rougé calls Warhol's box sculptures trompe-l'oeil: they are lifelike illusions, but not illusions of something natural, like the legendary painted grapes of Zeuxis that the birds pecked at.
Or add cladding to a tiny car like the Toyota Scion, and you create the illusion of something larger.
Is the payoff to have the illusion of something actually happening before your eyes really worth it?
Actually, the emeralds were cemented with pitch into a kind of brown ore to create the illusion of something natural -- an example of man-made wonderment.
In this writing — purposefully fragmented, and composed with frugal economy — the characters verge toward the schematic, and the present tense in which the novel is couched increases the illusion of something light and fugitive.
Instead of offering spontaneity, Mr. Penn provided the illusion of something fixed, his gaze precisely describing the profile of a Balenciaga coat or of a Moroccan djellaba in a way that could almost mesmerize the viewer.
Standing on the promenade, looking across the water and toward Manhattan's East Side, Maya Maslova, 67, a Russian immigrant who has lived on Roosevelt Island for five years, said the view has "the illusion of something romantic".
It creates an illusion of something that truly is not there.
Apparently the giant freak-of-nature had been dragging branches into the eaves, just outside my bedroom, creating the auditory illusion of something being dragged across the floor.
"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.
