Sentence examples for illusory thrill from inspiring English sources

This novel is also for those who shudder at the seamier qualities of capitalism the infantalising ad campaigns and the illusory thrill of acquisition and for those who obsess over their body-mass index more than they'd like.

At times you wonder if the whole point of impossibly promising youthful talent is simply its impossible promise, the conspicuous, ruinous consumption, the illusory thrill of somehow owning the future ahead of time.

Products of a more realistic age perhaps, but without the high ceiling, the vaulting possibilities – illusory perhaps, but still thrilling – that the Premier League's own desiccated golden boy might still offer.

And yet, for all that it was in its own way the perfect Shaqiri goal: thrilling, moreish, confusing, illusory.

The images of the performers are gathered digitally, manipulated and remixed live to plunge an audience each wearing 3D cinema glasses headlong into a thrilling and disturbing illusory world.

Part of the thrill was the feeling — however illusory — that, for once, you knew exactly what Oldham was talking about.

After weeks of scrutiny, the church members seemed thrilled to have had a semi-private moment, however inconsequential and illusory.

Quick solutions are illusory.

The casualness is illusory.

This distinction is illusory.

Civilizations are illusory.