Sentence examples for mirage that from inspiring English sources

Permanent jobs were a mirage that seldom came.

A classic tale of a mirage that evaporated on scrutiny, if you will.

The politics of envy is a mirage that leads to moral and economic bankruptcy.

Perhaps he did, but Syria is a kind of shimmering mirage that beckons to, and then disappoints, ambitious strategists.

Crowds stood staring at the retro mirage that is the Dreamland Orchestra, as "Blue River" washed over them.

Was the historic Gulf superrich elite's love affair with America a cruel mirage that is now lost forever?

But they are also mirages that add uncanny signs of a primordial Eden that never was.

In most sectors and regions, including Wall Street and Silicon Valley, the supersized pay packages of the late 1990's look like mirages that may not reappear for years.

Under certain conditions, elaborate mirages that look like cities, forests, or "unidentified flying objects" may appear on the horizon, or ships in a nearby body of water may appear to be plying the sky of a desert.

Sadly, wedged between the prospects of reconquest by Bamako and "Talibanization" by Islamists, the idea of a secular Tuareg state, even so soon after its proclamation, seems as remote as one of those mirages that befall travelers on the way to Timbuktu.

Here they form a relentless march of ghostly mirages that only pauses, at the center of each wall, for a photographic work by the sculptor Roni Horn: a pair of large color images of the heads of exotic, taxidermied birds, seen from behind.