Sentence examples for of any illusion from inspiring English sources

He very neatly demonstrates to her, by asking numerous intimate questions, how sordid the entire thing has been, stripping it of any illusion it had for her.

The events which followed the death of Princess Diana disposed, in his view, of any illusion that republicanism was now on the march.

They did it to the Mets in the fourth and fifth games at Shea Stadium last fall, but it is almost worse right now in the humidity of June because it strips the Mets of any illusion.

At that moment, I had to let go of any illusion of control I felt as a mother.

Bold and seemingly unrehearsed, Stew immediately disabuses the audience of any illusion that this is going to be a conventional performance: "This is not a play.

Such experiences undoubtedly strip many young people of any illusions about the neutrality of the state.

Indeed, you might think that spending time with killers would disabuse a lawyer of any illusions about the virtues of humanity.

The effect, however, has to have been to disabuse the Obama team of any illusions that they were engaged in good-faith negotiations.