Sentence examples for old illusion from inspiring English sources

This is an old illusion.

"Hopefully, it's 'new building, same old illusion.' ".

It is an old illusion and we can trace it back to a precise moment in history.

If the old illusion was that Greece was a wealthy country, the new illusion is that Greece will, in short order, become wealthy enough to pay back ever-growing sums of debt.

On nice days we sometimes sit and look at the perfect curve of the horizon, and we know, often for twenty-five minutes at a time the old illusion of security.

Steely Dan When Steely Dan resumed its career in 2000 with "Two Against Nature" after a 20-year gap between albums of new songs, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen packed it with pent-up mischief: odd meters and underhanded chromatic harmonies, squalid characters and elusive references, all with their old illusion of unflappable cool.

But in 1955 Anthony Eden was PM and clung to old illusions.

Monolithic statues of scowling Soviet heroes loom over public squares and parks, a farcical reminder of old victories, old illusions.

They charm us into accepting the old illusions -- that the good guys get the girls, hatchets get buried and everything at last comes out right.

The 2005 assassination of Lebanon's pro-Western, former prime minister Rafik Hariri, set off massive protests that saw Syria withdraw its military and rekindled old illusions of a Lebanon firmly in the Western camp.

Other cities in the West have a long way to go: half the houses in Sacramento do not meter water; Palm Springs, close to where Mr Obama teed off this weekend, still peddles the old illusions of desert verdancy.