By reducing his Watson materials to one volume, Matthiessen has sacrificed qualities that gave those novels their powerful reinforcing illusions of authenticity and artlessness.
I am reluctantly obliged to reinforce the illusion that our hospital, and therefore our health, is the charitable gift of a benevolent monarch to her less fortunate subjects".
The announcer's image can also be shrunk or enlarged to reinforce the illusion of walking away from or toward the camera.
A sunny spirit of inclusion can obscure structural inequities, and the rehearsal of clichés and truisms — even those meant to acknowledge past errors — can reinforce the illusion of our own blamelessness and ease the conscience into a kind of historical amnesia.
In this criss-crossed world, power seekers seek words that reinforce the illusion of agreement.
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Accordingly, I just listened sympathetically but tried not to reinforce his illusions.
The Web reinforces this illusion of movement by adopting a real-estate vocabulary, with terms like "site" (on which nothing can be built), "address" (which you can't G.P.S ., and "domain" (which is a legal concept, not a duchy).
Like the Taliban and the guerrillas in Vietnam, these groups are able to fight, run, and disappear, which reinforces an illusion of American powerlessness, with no end in sight.
When Byrne tells her readers to "make a connection" between the good things they do and the good things that come to them, she is focusing their attention on positive examples of the law of attraction, thereby reinforcing the illusion that it actually works.
