Sentence examples for illusory bubble from inspiring English sources

The anchors' inability to stay inside their illusory bubble sent a strong message to viewers: the country is living on a split screen.

It may not match the takes accrued by non-Detroit tycoons who pocketed profits from the illusory bubble before shareholders and employees were wiped out — Charles Prince and Robert Rubin of Citi, Joseph Cassano of A.I.G., Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide, Stanley O'Neal of Merrill Lynch — but only by that measure is he less culpable than they are.

For decades, I was the world's best at fabricating this illusory bubble and criticizing myself mercilessly when I and my life looked nothing like it.

Here in Berlin, safe within the illusory bubble of the most pleasant city on earth, it is easy to see why any rational person fears change.

I wanted to know what it was like – that tunnel that was the other side of the appearance of the piece – and I guess that has always been the thing that interested me: that big sculptures are actually entirely illusory bubbles of appearance.

Back then, the $8tn in illusory housing bubble wealth was creating the demand needed to keep our workforce near full employment.

Famous short-seller Jim Chanos continues to argue on Bloomberg TV and CNBC's Squawk Box that China's economic growth is illusory, a bubble ready to blow up a thousand times worse than Dubai's.

They are the only force that can sustain demand in the economy after the collapse of housing construction and the loss of the consumption that had been supported by $8 trillion in illusory housing bubble wealth.

Of course, this comfort is illusory; the protective bubble of Tara is gone with the wind.

And indeed, some Japanese have been arguing for years that any day now the United States is going to go through the same comeuppance they experienced -- that our "new economy" is as fragile, perhaps illusory, as their bubble economy of the late 1980's.

Like Eva Smith, they're not given any second chance; only a brief bubble of illusory hope, which bursts as the curtain falls.