Sentence examples for persuasive illusion from inspiring English sources

Yet every honest observer senses that a life drawing, no matter how many pawnbrokers' balls and snooty butlers it includes, has an edge of persuasive illusion.

It's a big moment right now for very small things, which permit the very persuasive illusion that you're eating only very small amounts while you're in fact racking up very large quantities of food.

The tales are theatrically enhanced with persuasive illusions, grisly and otherwise, a pinch of erotica, and the atmospherics of a haunted house; a good chunk of the show takes place in pitch darkness.

And it's undeniable that the mechanical art of the movies, capable of creating much more persuasive illusions of nature than the automatons of old, has done its part in helping to reduce the instinctive loathing we humans used to feel at the idea of artificial life.

The paint job is showing its age, ruining the once-persuasive illusion.

demo is to place the old trembly technology beside the new, sleek and persuasive full-range touch illusion.

We risk being, in the historian Daniel Boorstin's words, the first people "able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so 'realistic' that they can live in them," and, he might have added, most willing to.

But illusion and delusion make for persuasive art.

Fluent, personable and persuasive, only his Blair-like arts keep afloat a full-steam-ahead illusion when his ship has just run aground on a mudbank.

And persuasive.

Persuasive charm.