Sentence examples for is a mere illusion from inspiring English sources
The support system is mainly concentrated to the bank network in India that too in limited extent (Satyasai 2003); hence, expecting a miraculous result without correcting the imbalances in the outreach is a mere illusion (Satyasai 2008).
Convinced that everything that surrounds us is a mere illusion, art director and fashion designer Marit Ilison created the costume collection Lúmine as a depiction of the human body, where the impression of clothing has been removed to disregard societal trends.
In speaking of the everyday use of nonoccult powers in the home, David explains: "Entering the flat, I turned on all the electric lights in every room, a detail which was our custom by this time, and one upon which I depended heavily for some sense of normality, no matter that it was a mere illusion, but then, perhaps normality is always an illusion.
The stars you see in the unfathomable distance aren't a mere illusion, like fairy lights studded into a black curtain of a stage backdrop, but real orbs.
Unemployment is a mere 2.9%.
At times they are represented by their shadows on the wall — a riff on Plato's allegory of the cave, in which human life on earth is revealed as a mere illusion of reality.
Frawley says her outer appearance as poverty is deceptive and a mere illusion that hides the inner reality.
If this was the case, their lower wages are a mere statistical illusion that reflects an omitted variable problem rather than a causal relationship between language ability and earnings.
The Court's seeming affirmations of free speech, applied to the bigotry and hate-mongering of pastor Phelps were a mere comforting illusion.
For Jacobi this led to the need for a theological leap of faith, as the world's intelligibility otherwise threatened to become a mere illusion, in which nothing was finally grounded at all.
