Sentence examples for its illusion from inspiring English sources

Last year, France was indulging its illusion that it could galvanize all the antiwar, anti-U.S. sentiment to make itself the great global Uncola to America's Coca-Cola -- the new balancer to America.

He also held that a foreknowledge of the way a thing worked robbed it of most of its illusion and glamour for the beholder.

Would American diners be willing to give up tipping — and its illusion of control — if it meant providing benefits and a living wage for the people who cook and serve their food?

Ms. Weinreich said that psychosis can be seductive, with its illusion of enhanced creativity, but that ultimately it interfered with her ability to produce artwork.

Its illusion of importance was enhanced by federal prosecutors, who included it in a trove of documents introduced into evidence in the 2007 trial of the Holy Land Foundation, a charitable organization ultimately convicted of sending money to Hamas.

The characters broadcast themselves across the footlights, which robs the evening of its illusion of intimacy.

The defeat was a humiliation, and it stripped the country of its illusions of omnipotence.

Mr. Kalb argued that the defeat in Vietnam "was a humiliation, and it stripped the country of its illusions of omnipotence".

Bernard Shaw's judgment, shortly after Schnitzler's death, in 1931, was characteristic: "I class him with those writers of the latter half of the nineteenth century who had lost its illusions and broken with its superstitions without ever escaping from it into the twentieth".

There remains, of course, the question if it is he who could lead a country traumatically freed of its illusions fully to the catharsis of this drama: overcoming the crisis itself.

Human time perception and its illusions.