Sentence examples for noble illusion from inspiring English sources
At the time, that vision may have been a noble illusion, a projection of the progressive, problem-solving hopes of the culture.
And, in the course of the movie, Eastwood offers an answer: the mythical mainstream, the core consensus of a founding myth, whether cultural or political, arises through a well-crafted fiction that depends on hierarchies, illusions, noble and ignoble lies, and various forms of self-denial.
President Janet Yellen has been the champion of that noble cause, but spread the illusion of the direct influence of monetary policy on the real economy.
"Let no one succumb to the illusion that the people of this noble and self-abnegating nation will ever renounce the glory, the rights, and the spiritual bounty won with its achievements in education, the sciences, and culture," he wrote.
By assigning music such a noble and privileged sphere, he could escape to that disconnected reality, permitting himself the illusion of refuge at a time and place where the possibility of true refuge had ceased to exist.
Where illusion is the law, the depiction of simple and stifled facts is a brave and noble act.
Just as often, the prize ends up honoring an illusion — Yasir Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin, in 1994 — or a cause that's as hopeless as it is noble: the Dalai Lama, in 1989; Aung San Suu Kyi, in 1991.
"Illusion, Illusion!" the customer said.
