Sentence examples for potent illusion from inspiring English sources

The eddy of social engagements also contributes to another, more potent, illusion.

Among them, Miltiadis is wary of turning his virtual hands to gun-toting games, believing a potent illusion could bring its own dilemmas.

In the world's largest democracy, The Newshour provides the potent illusion of democracy: The people want their often corrupt rulers to be held to account, they want to see them being shouted at.

I know how potent that illusion of invincibility is.

Meanwhile, Morgan's seeming emergence from the dead, like one of Mulholland's magical feats, created a potent counter-illusion: that he was indestructible.

Follies is Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's tribute to a bygone Broadway era and a potent emotional journey through time and illusion.

His first novel, dedicated to a British Jewish novelist, Linda Grant, is a slim but potent meditation on memory and exile".The Illusion of Return" is rich in double meaning: the first illusion is that the Palestinians can ever return to their home villages, many of which now lie buried under Israeli housing estates and industrial parks.

He suggests that our increased tendency to talk about our problems as "addictions" is indicative of the more potent "autonomy addiction" that lies behind it: "the illusion that we can be fully masters of ourselves".

Directed by Moses Pendleton, a Pilobolus founder and now the leader of Momix, a company that deftly merges acrobatics and illusion, "Day Two" nails the point in which fantasy meets potent muscularity.

But as potent as that sensation can be, with a stutter of the screen image the illusion can come crashing down.

When Reagans and Bushes and Romneys are in power, the illusion that we can move forward by ousting them is attractive and potent.