Sentence examples for maintain this illusion from inspiring English sources

How long will he maintain this illusion about what's doable and what's not doable?

Now the question is whether the Bush administration is prepared to use the same tyrannical tactics of Saddam Hussein to maintain this illusion of a country that we call Iraq.

It takes some work to maintain this illusion; when I travel with friends, I explain I need a private room because I talk in my sleep, and I try not to drift off on planes.

The Whitebrook capably maintains this illusion.

Part of maintaining this illusion depended upon the lewd familiarity that Imus deployed on air — in Imus's New York, it seemed, status depended on who you knew.

Once we buy into being separate most of us spend the rest of our lives building, defending and maintaining this illusion without ever checking to see if it is true.

For example, Soo's pretense of being slow and feeble misdirects his audience from noticing the physical strength required to perform the goldfish bowl trick, but the cost of maintaining this illusion is the sacrifice of individuality: Soo's true appearance and freedom to act naturally are consciously suppressed in his ceaseless dedication to the art of magic.

As president, he can no longer maintain this illusion.He must make trade-offs.

Yvonne Gilbert's lavish full colour illustrations, something of a rarity in young adult fiction, help maintain the illusion in this novel.

These little flurries maintain the illusion that this is a lively democracy where all views are taken seriously by our beloved Auntie Beeb.

While Yamauchi maintained that being a non-player gave him an advantageous perspective on the industry, this assertion was only half true, perhaps to maintain the illusion that his business decisions came from his head, not from his heart.