Sentence examples for selling an illusion from inspiring English sources

Rubinstein was selling an illusion — the promise of eternal youth.

"I was selling an illusion," he said, two days before Waldheim won.

Biotech companies that provide cloning services to pet owners are selling an illusion.

But the show isn't selling an illusion à la Marlene Dietrich's late concerts, in which she was mummified in sequined splendor and Sphinx-like mystique.

Except for Lynn Bracken's house, where the Kim Basinger character is very deliberately selling an illusion to her customers, who she sees as suckers.

Marketers like Restoration Hardware and Pottery Bar are apparently succeeding in selling an illusion by producing cheap copies of real antiques -- antiques that have true value because of their history, their craftsmanship and their scarcity.

Con artists don't sell reality; they sell an illusion that their victims already want to believe.

There are even policemen (MacMillan, a bartender, has befriended several) who will throw clients and players into squad cars to sell an illusion.

"Vang Vieng sells JOY, it sells an illusion of total freedom," says Sengkeo Bob Frichitthavongng, 38, a local guesthouse owner who was born in Vang Vieng, but spent 12 years in Canada.

But what they are really selling is an illusion at the expense of women's rights, she said.

We are selling a reality-based illusion.