Sentence examples for primary illusion from inspiring English sources

Langer believes that dance is expressive of virtual power through what she calls the "primary illusion" of gesture.

Dance is distinguished only because its symbol or "primary illusion" is one of virtual power or gesture rather than virtual time (the symbol for music), virtual space (the symbol for the plastic arts) or the illusion of life (the symbol for poetry when it is in words and in drama when it is presented in the mode of action).

Valentine's Day ramps up our quotidian levels of online schmaltz in an extreme extension of social networking's primary impulse: crafted illusion.

Varying the intensity of these primaries creates the illusion, from a distance, of the intended hue.Doing things this way, however, exacts two prices: brightness and resolution.

Other evidence from EEG [8], [9] and MEG [10] has shown neurophysiological correlates of the illusion in primary visual areas, thus giving weight to the suggestion that the illusion is perceptual rather than a result of response biases.

And his priorities will be the same as they always have throughout his career: to democratise the art form, to shatter the dangerous illusion that the primary function of orchestras is to play concerts in gilt-edged cages around the world, and to connect new audiences with orchestral music.

The other attack is the SSDF [5, 13], in which compromised users falsify the local spectrum sensor reports to obscure the existence or create the illusion of a primary signal at the FC [19].

Primary voters are given an illusion of choice when in reality party elites still ultimately decide who gets to play and who doesn't.

I've no illusions that the primary intent was a concern for our safety, rather than the avoidance of increased scrutiny in the event of civilian casualty.

But Mr. Thompson, who won 26.2 percent of the primary vote, was harboring no illusions about the long odds against him, according to those close to him.

There was support for the primary hypothesis that a rubber hand illusion occurs during synchronous touch but not asynchronous touch in the basic set up.