Sentence examples for illusory since from inspiring English sources

This temporal characteristic is illusory, since the future is postponed indefinitely.

The resulting victory over the Liao was wholly illusory, since it was the Juchen who turned out to be the real menace.

To suppose that content and form are inseparable is, in effect, to dismiss both ideas as illusory, since no two works of art can then share either a content or a form the form being definitive of each work's individuality.

But the company's critics have said that such a distinction was largely illusory, since Libya's pressure for the prisoner transfer pact was primarily motivated, as Libyan officials said at the time, by their desire to bring Mr. Megrahi home.

The supposed transfer of sovereignty to an Iraqi government has now been proved to be illusory, since Ayad Allawi has about as much sovereign control as Fidel Castro has over Guantánamo bay, where the US base remains against the will of the Cuban government.

The same reasoning would lead us to conclude that sensory experiences are illusory, since in each sensory experience, there is some corresponding neurological state that is just like the state that occurs in the corresponding hallucination.

Their independence can be half-illusory, since they rely on FBI investigators who remain part of the executive; besides, they mean yet more inquisitors, with all their intrusiveness and cost.

The extended contours evident in the even ensemble are a kind of illusory contour, since the polarity changes that define them undergo random flips, which would confound a linear edge detector.

An auditory attentional cue might induce the illusory visual motion since the visual percept for the stimulus might gradually develop from the cued side.

But the film is even more incendiary for its analysis of what Curtis controversially insists is the largely illusory fear of terrorism in the west since 9/11.

Yet if he will remain controversial to many, and has not been widely loved since the fairytale early days of his first marriage, a fairytale long since revealed to have been illusory, the prince is slowly winning back public affection.