Sentence examples for public illusion from inspiring English sources

Of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, Borges seems to have been the least convinced by himself — by the imposing public illusion of his own fame.

Now what's happening, most recently in the Netherlands, is that the big structures keep the resources because that provides a public illusion of culture.

"The Chiefs-in-Assembly just didn't feel that it was appropriate to feed into that public illusion that everything is okay".

Rather than the public illusion, she gets a private illusion to take its place (which, she says, is fostered by the closed-in social world of Mob families associating only with each other).

OFSTED's inspections only give the public the illusion of knowledge about our schools.

This also detracts from more meaningful lifestyle interventions by giving the public the illusion of protection.

They took portraits and sometimes observed painters at work, but they contributed to their image too, publicising their names and faces, and creating for the public the illusion of a kind of intimacy.

The NFL borrowed a page from Big Tobacco's playbook by choosing to dump millions of dollars into experiments on animals that won't ever help humans, but will allow dangerous activity to continue while giving the public the illusion that they're being protected.

had brought in a whole new world situation as well-an impression not confirmed by events Also, by some legerdemain of public relations the illusion was created that one Administration had been interred with the failed mission and another born.

It is yet another precipitate action aimed at giving the Israeli public a temporary illusion of security; its main effect will be to supply Israelis with a counterfeit replacement for a peace process.

The public has few illusions left about how tabloids work.