Sentence examples for on a mirage from inspiring English sources

Espresso drinks will be prepared on a Mirage Idrocompresso, a tricked-out lever machine from Kees van der Westen.

If there is a defining feature of the last year, it is that the mania over listing prices for trophy properties was built on a mirage of big sales creating new comps in the market.

By comparing yourself to others, you give their image-portrayal way too much power and reduce your own worth based on a mirage.

This spin is part of a "mirage on the Mekong", Mr Strangio writes, a jab at the naive "miracle on the Mekong" phrase that was bandied about during the elections in 1998.

It begins with a film of a mirage quivering on a Patagonian road and ends on a similarly quiet note, with a short animation of a woman pouring liquid from one glass to another, and back again, to a quietly lilting song.

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

Fashion tends to diminish all that it touches, and what might fool the cursory glance as being genuine and good often turns out on closer inspection to a mirage of authenticity and a mutated, pastiche version of the good.

All this news that means the carpet you walk on is a mirage, moving.

A singularly undistinguished family's hold on the nation, a mirage of nationhood, a majestic delusion".

And a meeting of the minds on two central points — the scheduled expiration of the Bush tax cuts, which Republicans oppose, and scaling back entitlement programs, which Republicans accuse Democrats of having approached too modestly — seemed on Monday like a mirage.

Does it mean that February's victory may turn out to be what Hillary Clinton described in a speech on Monday as a "mirage in the desert"?