Sentence examples for personal illusion from inspiring English sources

And I think people are pressured to keep that personal illusion going on in their real lives.

I'm under no personal illusions that Apple will maintain dominance over the tablet market forever (and I don't think Apple is either).

Perhaps we were simply a few fools, but when the end is this near, one perhaps has the right to a bit of completely personal historical illusion".

McGuinness says social media can give the illusion that personal relationships are healthy when in reality, they're often faltering.

An illusion that personal budgets work has been created by unrepresentatively packing survey samples with this small group of people.

The built-in emotional sledgehammer in this production is almost too obvious, and yet Mr. Jonas effectively conveys the illusion of personal experience.

With this book I had to find patterns and parallels from much further back, from the roots of drama and Christianity and early modes of civilisation, in order to represent my sense that marriage is to an extent an illusion of personal choice.

The Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale was designed to measure the concept that individuals are successful by external standards but have an illusion of personal incompetence.

One objection (that can be traced back to Kant) against dualism is that the dualist is unable to account for the possibility that the soul or immaterial self is constantly being replaced by different individual selves, (with complete updated "memories" and psychological qualities) thus creating the illusion of personal continuity of the self-same subject.

Internet searches give people the illusion of personal knowledge even when they haven't actually gained any, according to research published this week in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Nevertheless, in the absence of more convincing evidence about the role of personal involvement in the illusion of control, it seems more parsimonious to assume that a single process (biased contingency detection due to a high probability of the cause) is responsible for the illusions previously attributed to personal involvement (Alloy et al., 1985).