Sentence examples for levels of illusion from inspiring English sources

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Introducing Pirandello's device of the "theatre within the theatre," the play explores various levels of illusion and reality.

A riotously colorful, floral-patterned jar of enamel-painted copper, wrapped by a trompe l'oeil pink ribbon tied into a bow in front, delights in contradictory levels of illusion and reality.

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And that, regardless of how this change has happened (and Zellweger is not saying exactly how), is a whole other level of illusion.

So I have to constantly switch back and forth between mirror and cameras in order to evoke a successful level of illusion," Yoon says.

In a kind of cinematic guerilla warfare, this highest level of perspectival illusion is usurped throughout the film.

Schlegel stresses that, in contrast to tragedy, the author of which needs to remain invisible lest his/her fictional world should disintegrate; in comedy, the gap between the different levels of reality and illusion, or rather, the very disintegration of the unity of the story becomes the center of the play.

For the thousands of non-Tepco employees hired across Japan to perform backbreaking, dangerous work for contractors and subcontractors, the lure of earning decent money in return for working close to lethal levels of radiation has proved an illusion.

Plans for a reservoir surrounded by a grand promenade and staggered levels of vegetation to give the illusion of height were abandoned, but in the 1930s, the park gained a lookout chalet and Beaver Lake, projects created to employ those left jobless by the Great Depression.

The report, which is unsigned, says Mr. Schundler's administration "has repeatedly utilized creative accounting practices and the shifting of costs to other city agencies to create the illusion of stable levels of appropriations in its annual operating budgets".

Parkin of Eurogamer described these aspects by stating that: "Branching paths through levels add the illusion of depth but, for players who wish to collect 100 per cent of the gems in a stage, trekking backwards and forwards through a level is an inelegant slog".

The flow of time has two levels of explanation, and is described as an "illusion" insofar as experience is in conflict with measurement (compare Muller-Lyer).

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