Sentence examples for illusory promise from inspiring English sources

The brief and illusory promise of a breakthrough last Monday was, as so often before, followed in quick order by accusations of sabotage and bad faith, and dire warnings about the consequences of failure.

There is not just the sometimes illusory promise of a fresh start, but also remembrances of things not so long past, like the fragrance of macaroni and cheese wafting from the cafeteria.

These cases began when our welfare system was still sending out an illusory promise to inexperienced girls that they and their children would be supported for the rest of their lives.

A sort of timid evasion, gaming voters' fears as if a general lament for lost growth and an illusory promise that necessary cuts can be made not to hurt is all they need offer even in these most alarming of circumstances.

Two reasons to think that Philo did adopt this approach are, first, that it yields a conception of ethical knowledge that fits the epistemology of the Roman Books — a Philonian rational agent will have the sort of wisdom and happiness that is available to ordinary people, i.e. something quite unlike the illusory promise of inerrant knowledge and moral perfection promised by the Stoics.

We can no longer afford to expend our national prosperity in pursuit of an illusory promise of security that is mostly defined in terms of defense that echo from our 20th Century past.

Are there parallels in previous eras of illusory promises that resulted in a general erosion of trust?

Peter Parker's being delivered over to the tempting, illusory promises of narcissism in the guise of Arachne was as startling a plot development, and penetrating an image, as I've ever seen in a Broadway musical.

First there was the divisive Inaugural Address, where an inaccurate picture of American "carnage" became the stage for illusory promises to the "forgotten" that will not be kept because there are no policies planned or in place to do so.

I put it to her that the worst thing that happened to the west was the collapse of the Soviet Union because it represented some kind of corrective to capitalism's excesses, however illusory that promise.

This is an illusory hope.