Throughout, we meet artists and eccentrics obsessed with the reflections they cast, often shaping the world to match their private illusions: a gardener "crows with / delight" as his sugar maple takes the form of a rooster; a woman paints her baseboards the color of her dachshund.
I always feel as though I am showing up at a nice house for a private party, an illusion reinforced by the intimate dining room, decorated in restrained good taste.
Though aware that their exchanges will be eavesdropped by a readership in many languages, they maintain the epistolary conventions of intimacy, the illusion of private conspiracy.
We can't afford to squander money giving huge windfalls to banks and their executives, merely to preserve the illusion of private ownership.
For example, one student drew inspiration from Alice Warder Garrett's art deco mirrored private bath when creating Illusion Garden, a twisting eight-foot-high, 45-foot-long chain-link fence arch with a center area featuring 20 mirrors that face each other.
Until now calling large companies "private" entities created an illusion that has worked to the benefit of a very few.
Providing contracts to private employees serves the illusion that "government is not big" or "is getting smaller".
The cavernous space fills two levels with plush seating in muted colors, and provides ample space between tables that creates the illusion of private dining.
More important, the advantage that proponents cite on behalf of private accounts is an optical illusion.
Mikio, 39, is determined to create the illusion of a private gathering of friends at his postmodern speakeasy.
