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Silver-screen and real-life illusions collide in "Protektor," an overly stylized drama about the moral weight of collaboration.
Magic usually doesn't translate well onto the screen, since the movies themselves are larger-than-life illusions projected through thin air, especially in the age of computer-generated special effects, when every image is susceptible to endless manipulation.
Their love fuelled her creative energy and what he called her "life-illusion".
Abel isn't going to waste his life on illusions.
How then could Leon Wieseltier select THE ATHEIST'S GUIDE TO REALITY: Enjoying Life Without Illusions (Norton, $25.95), by Alex Rosenberg, as the "worst book" of 2011?
His reader needs to bring nearly all of him to the consideration of each fresh enigma: "The intellect is stimulated by the statement of truth in a trope, and the will by clothing the laws of life in illusions".
Lyell also claimed that the apparent evidence for catastrophic changes in the fossil record, and even the appearance of directional succession in the history of life, were illusions caused by imperfections in that record.
You don't really know the solitary despair at the core of that song until you've heard Love's embittered delivery of the last two lines — "It's life's illusions I recall / I really don't know life at all" — over guitarist Eric Erlandson's fading squall".
I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me.
So far that life of illusion was only hurting me.
On his realist assumption, Plato regards most ordinary life as illusion and the current evils of politics as the result of the human pursuit of brute instinct.
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