Sentence examples for persistence of illusion from inspiring English sources

One obvious reason why it isn't, discussed by Armstrong, is that one can have a perceptual illusion that things are a certain way even when one knows they are not (this phenomenon is sometimes called "the persistence of illusion").

In Condition 1, Basic illusion during continuous touch, the presence and initial persistence of the illusion was investigated.

(This seems evident in the persistence of a visual illusion, even once one has become convinced of the error).

The one moment that defeats even Donnelly is an improbable tirade against Lola and his kind that seems inserted just to prove the persistence of antiquated attitudes to gender illusion.

The persistence of the Timbisha in Death Valley destroys that illusion, which is also the illusion of American innocence.

Apparently, the composers of the Rosh Hashana liturgy dating back many centuries had no illusions about the persistence of the existential threat to the Jewish people, and included a prayer for something we need now as much as ever: the courage to prevail.

These celebrations are a fiesta of illusion.

food, inhabits a world of illusion.

ENGLEWOOD The Spencers: Theatre of Illusion.

Another called it a "masterpiece of illusion".

SOUTH ORANGE The Spencers: Theater of Illusion.