Sentence examples for layers of illusion from inspiring English sources
The same jarring silliness is exposed when Bacon's smashed-up face of Isabel Rawsthorne is set beside Picasso's 1909 painting A Young Lady, which strips away layers of illusion to glimpse a multifaceted cubist truth under the skin.
It gains power and an air of the sacred through its layers of illusion.
But as I continued to pull back the layers of illusion I'd carefully constructed around me and got really real with myself, I recognized that I'd created a life based on external validation and in doing so, became a very fearful and competitive woman.
Listen for how Pape rips away another layer of illusion each time he repeats the phrase "She does not love me" in the Study Scene, or for how he adds a tinge of political insanity to the line "Death, in my hands, becomes fecund".
In almost every version the ballet covers at least three layers of reality or illusion.
His main characters all speak in distinctive voices — a testament to his gift for parody and pastiche — but there are layers of disguise and illusion.
Ms. Paulson, seen on Broadway in the disappointing recent revival of "The Glass Menagerie" and a star of the short-lived television series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," slowly peels away Meg's layers of confidence and illusion to lay bare the regret and disappointment that haunt her.
However, Divergent adds new layers of complexity by creating an illusion of democracy for the participants in the fractioned society, and these factions being controlled by outside force.
In "Ambulance," which uses layers of overdubbed voices to create the illusion of a full a cappella ensemble, the two men murmur a bass line straight out of doo-wop while, in the lead parts, they slide up to whistlelike falsettos.
In keeping with that princess-y tradition were a raft of sweetheart necklines, strapless tops, illusion panels and confectioners' layers of embroidered lace.
The longer layers give the illusion of length and the shorter layers create volume.
