Sentence examples for major illusion from inspiring English sources

Angel's first major illusion was making his mother float in their family den.

By Dan Chiasson Glück's major subject is the illusion of certainty, the contest between clarity and doubt.

The comparable ratio today is around 20. Franco Modigliani, who in the late 1970s was a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, realized that money illusion was a major factor in the market's dismal performance in that decade.

In the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a father-son team claims to have torpedoed one of the two major theories to explain this illusion.

Presumably there was some illusion that a major concession of legitimacy would produce a quieter, gentler Taliban, full of the loving, pious grace occasionally proclaimed by political leaders and interfaith bureaucrats unwilling to face the generic militancy of an important part of the Islamic system.

Particles are just schaumkommen (appearances)." Reality as we think of it is pure illusion -- a major point a few silly mystics and philosophers throughout history like Buddha, Jesus and Lao Tzu have tried to explain.

Yet one of Occupy's major contributions is exposing the illusion that elite interests with superior know-how can speak and act for us.

That's the major difference between Bonds and Woods: image and illusion.

The museum describes "Salvador Dali's Optical Illusions" as the first major exploration of the artist's preoccupation with optics and visual perception.

"I am under no illusion that it will be major task and very tough to match the success of Beijing".

A major contradiction in our culture is the illusion that there's no longer any stigma attached to getting divorced.