Sentence examples for needs the illusion from inspiring English sources

The press needs the illusion of a hard-fought campaign to keep its audience from straying.

Although some great fiction is written that way -- Moby-Dick," for instance -- it needs the illusion that we are there too, and moving forward through the action.

But this time, both sides need the illusion of being bipartisan -- Mr. Bush to offset his lack of a plurality, the Democrats to capitalize on it.

I needed that illusion that something like this would never happen to me, that this place is not that dangerous.

"And yet the need for the illusion of justice is so essential to the task of rebuilding that we need to go forward on it.

This sort of comedy of manners is much harder to pull off than it appears – it needs to create the illusion of an effortlessness that is in fact very hard-won.

He directs me toward a shelf of beard tonics and conditioners that no one actually needs, but offer the illusion that you're getting your life in order and grooming yourself like a real man would.

In "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego," he provides this devastating portrait of the "primal father": "Even today the members of a group stand in need of the illusion that that they are equally and justly loved by their leader; but the leader himself need love no one else, he may be of a masterful nature, absolutely narcissistic, self-confident and independent".

"When you are in a pound shop the surprise and novelty actually create the illusion that you need the product.

They recognised that due to diamonds having little intrinsic value, they would need to create demand via (the illusion of) scarcity and pretend worth.

The paradox, then, is that we need to create the illusion of the illicit in order to generate a sense of excitement.