Sentence examples for illusory one from inspiring English sources

There is good evidence, says Vyse, that anxiety makes people feel out of control, and that superstition provides a sense of control - if an illusory one.

Diplomatic maneuvering has been under way to arrange a meeting between the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, and the Israeli foreign minister, Shimon Peres, in the hope of bringing about a cease-fire more meaningful than the illusory one that now exists.

Fox uses that plantation again and again, as a kind of lost paradise, or an illusory one.

Most palpable is the queasy drift of Abby's ethics and the sense that her escape is a fragile, even illusory one, though that itself seems partly to result from the slight aridness of many of the film's sex scenes.

They make clear for instance that the pleasures of the lowest soul are illusory; one reason is that the body delights not in true beings but in "idols [eidôlois] of true pleasure" and painted images, eskiagraphêmenais (586b).

It is not enough that we sympathetically imagine ourselves in their shoes, he argues, we must literally feel the pleasure and pain of others as our own, an attitude that will be rationally grounded only in a monistic metaphysics in which the distinction between ego and not ego becomes a trivial or illusory one between two manifestations of the same underlying unity.

The language in Book 10 brings Book 9's equation of base pleasures with illusory ones into its attack on art.

Echoing objections raised by Continental and Northwest in separate filings, Mr. Icahn said American's proposal was an "illusory one-sided deal" that effectively gave American an option to buy any of T.W.A.'s assets while leaving it free to walk away at any time without penalty.

The problem here is that the US, a country that valorises freedom above almost everything else, is damaging its real freedoms in pursuit of illusory ones.

"I am not talking about pursuing some sort of illusory one-to-one marketing relationship with customers," says Clemons. "I'm talking about making the transition to precision pricing, which does indeed require understanding your customer".

Although in human form the soul is capable of conscious divinity, all the impressions that it has gathered during evolution are illusory ones, creating a barrier for the soul to know itself.