Sentence examples for merely an illusion from inspiring English sources

This is not merely an illusion of intimacy.

But this is merely an illusion, the way adults understand the past when they look through the telescope of lost time.

But it's only that it's difficult for me to think of everything in the world, including ourselves, as merely an illusion.

Even worse, the report concluded, is the potential that, since Enron was essentially on both sides of each deal, the transactions were merely an illusion.

After a burglar tampers with the Mac she's been using, Cayce finds herself on the trail of what may be an international conspiracy or may, like the footage itself, be merely "an illusion of meaningfulness, faulty pattern recognition".

Baldrick Taking comfort from the fact that this is a just war, sir. Goveadder I hope the discordant note of irony I thought I detected in that remark was merely an illusion brought about by the constant shellfire.

For some time now serious physicists have been pondering the seemingly absurd possibility that three-dimensional space is merely an illusion--and that we actually live in a two-dimensional "hologram".

To separate "America" from Mr. Bush in order to welcome him merely preserves an illusion.

Blocking websites merely offers an illusion of action, reducing pressure for effective policies to be implemented and for the international community to tackle the issue head on.

You watch hopefully as onward towards the heavens it creeps, praying that the fact it appears to be heading in your direction is merely an optical illusion.

While we now know that this was merely an optical illusion because of the limited resolution of the available observation instruments, Lowell's statements prompted generations of books and movies speculating on Martian invasions of Earth.