Sentence examples for quite illusory from inspiring English sources

As the past sixteen months suggest, however, its achievements, if not quite illusory, are painfully fragile.

Jews visit places like this to feel at home abroad, but it's all quite illusory; the Jewish population of Cochin doubles or trebles whenever a ship like ours docks there.

In countless domains, Madison's victory is quite illusory.

Two reasons to think that Philo did adopt this approach are, first, that it yields a conception of ethical knowledge that fits the epistemology of the Roman Books — a Philonian rational agent will have the sort of wisdom and happiness that is available to ordinary people, i.e. something quite unlike the illusory promise of inerrant knowledge and moral perfection promised by the Stoics.

Five years since Mumbai, there has been no significant jihadi strike on India, but this is quite possibly an illusory calm.

You write that, to Mexican poet and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz the "reality of daily life is... quite surreal, very vibratory, illusory and reflective.

While this is not quite the same as saying that dreams are illusory, appealing to the external causes of dream sensations is at least a necessary condition for saying that dreams involve distorted perceptions.

The people in "Babel" behave irrationally — if often quite predictably — but any control they appear to have over their own lives is illusory.

And in one of the prison letters, he described how he felt "never quite sure that my inclusion in the world won't turn out to be illusory, fraudulent and temporary".

He tears down the illusory curtain that separates them from the world and asks for something that neither of them can quite imagine: a conversation in which they are unsure of what to say, one in which they have to learn to listen.

It does not reach some sort of illusory "balance" with the environment because of some intrinsic harmonious drive to be at one with Earth, quite the opposite in fact.