Sentence examples for illusory stage from inspiring English sources

A scurimobile, by the way, is an old illusory stage trick defined as "a gun with two barrels that can be aimed and fired at different subjects".

But Washington's blind faith in the new normal disguised its flawed character and as the Clinton and Bush administrations built upon its illusory strength, the stage was set for failure.

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.

There, thousands gather in the late afternoon on the equinoxes to see the "great serpent," the nine stages of the pyramid forming shadows that create an illusory snake slithering down the western side of the north balustrade.

Consequently, much of the staging was metatheatrical, conceding the illusory nature of the game of playing and making little pretense of stage realism.

At this stage, it is unrealistic and illusory to demand Bashar al-Assad's departure, which would guarantee failure.

In a recent discussion of the evolutionary significance of HGT [ 96], Poole suggested that the Lamarckian aspect of HGT, which was invoked by Goldenfeld and Woese [ 56]as the dominant modality of the earliest stages of life evolution, becomes illusory when "a gene's view" of evolution [ 97] is adopted.

In Shakespeare's day, the forest was real enough, in the middle of Warwickshire (his mother's maiden name was Mary Arden), but on stage it's more of an illusory space, I think: somewhere you find liberation, discover who you are.

Similarly his drawings, objects, films and shadow figures can work brilliantly for the illusory magic of set design, as his imaginative staging of Mozart's "Magic Flute" proved recently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Power and/or phase of alpha oscillations influence illusory perception.

While the peripheral visual system seems capable of creating objects from separate features, the ability to do this is constrained at some stage of visual processing, such as would occur if the processes required to create an illusory square have different temporal characteristics in the periphery and in the fovea.