Sentence examples for illusory sense from inspiring English sources

A good pair frames your face, lifting the entire eye area, albeit in the illusory sense.

The most such acts of mimicry can yield is, I suspect, a fragile and possibly illusory sense of contact with the experiential world of our ancestors.

Mr. Lynn, one of the Pentagon's top strategists for computer network operations, argues that the billions spent on defensive shields surrounding America's banks, businesses and military installations provide a similarly illusory sense of security.

This type of illusory sense perception arises when the environment changes or warps the stimulus energy on the way to the person, who perceives it in its distorted pattern (as in the case of the "bent" pencil referred to above).

America's mistakes in Iraq and the pitch of Muslim-Israeli tensions have given it a largely illusory sense of power.On Iraq, the most obvious "crucible", Mr Nasr is not encouraging.

Then, we stockpiled duct tape, packed go bags and hatched family escape plans — giving us an illusory sense of control over the unimaginable (and, in retrospect, overblown) threats of chemical, biological and radioactive attacks.

Sometimes, however, the stimulation of one sense may activate an illusory sensation that is normally perceived by another sense, or a strong sensation may mask the perceptions of other senses.

His power is in a sense illusory, maintained because people choose to believe it.

Mastering the intricacies of the Community's legislative processes and their political implications is difficult, but also in a sense illusory – much like focusing on the mechanics of how a bill becomes a law in the United States.

Dialectical dualism involves an eternal dialectic, or tension, of two opposed principles, such as, in Western culture, the One and the many, or Idea and matter (or space, called by Plato "the receptacle"), and, in Indian culture, maya (the illusory world of sense experience and multiplicity) and atman-brahman (the essential identity of self and ultimate reality).

However, this generality is in a sense illusory, because any harmonic and quasiconformal (briefly hqc) mapping extends harmonically and quasiconformally across such portion of the boundary.