And under this somewhat illusory impression of safety, the statesmen, spooks and five-star refugees checked in.
Cleverly managing both his narrative and the audience's expectations, Watkins periodically takes his hero and heroine out of danger and, in one of these illusory interludes of safety, they order breakfast at a local diner where the waitress, perhaps the mother of these killer-kids, jovially asks Steve if they have been "terrorising" him.
Unfortunately, that sense of safety is illusory.
That sense of safety is illusory, she said, because countries armed with tools like FinSpy insure that refugees "can be spied on in an equally intrusive way as they were back at home".
Sure, this feeling of safety was illusory, but it was an illusion that company managers needed even more than shareholders did.
Until the Great Depression the social contract was an illusory concept and social safety net services provided by government were slim to non-existent.
Authorized by an act of a complacent Congress bowing to a disingenuous administration, the Defense Department acted last week to withhold evidence of its own misconduct, based on an illusory justification citing the safety of U.S. troops abroad.
Unlike the atmosphere in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, where two Americans were killed in a terrorist attack on a church, here Americans have generally had a feeling of safety, even if it is illusory.
Both defensive explanations of accidents and illusory or biased risk perception are shown to influence safety assessments and to have important implications for defining the best preventive actions and for writing relevant preventive communications.
The consensus regarding human safety and agricultural biotechnology is no more illusory than is the consensus among scientists on climate change.
