Sentence examples for illusory statements from inspiring English sources

While Leeson attracted attention within the bank as a neophyte who chalked up spectacular gains (that later proved illusory), statements by Allied Irish, while circumspect, suggest the trader had not gained any special notice.

The motivators you tout are lost in the intense sales culture, and the job satisfaction asserted in the Values Statement is illusory.

"The victory that Ethiopia is boasting about is proving illusory," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement today.

In a song otherwise free of religiosity, theologian Dale Allison interprets "Fools illusions everywhere" as a typical Harrison statement regarding māyā – the illusory nature of human existence.

But the argument is illusory.

And since rationalistic systems depend throughout upon statements of this kind, their importance is illusory.

The statement said the Algerian action will "make illusory portions of the Evian agreements" between France and Algeria, under which Algerian independence was granted.

Such statements can be read as being meant to debunk a widespread illusory belief in the existence of musical works; they also hold open the possibility of imagining works without believing in their existence, in which case the putative illusion is not necessary.

The Trump campaign did so through the illusory truth effect, a thinking error in our minds that happens when false statements are repeated many times and we begin to see them as true.

Prayer then is illusory and creeds are less healthy than tropes or metaphors for "the statement of truth".

Goya is making a general statement: that the Church's attempts to support and restore the Bourbons were "illusory, since what they proposed was nothing more than the adoration of an empty form".