Sentence examples for sentimental illusion from inspiring English sources

But this romantic view of the auto industry is a sentimental illusion.

And, commenting on end-of-life care in general, Berwick contends, "evidence is mounting that the excellence of the status quo is a sentimental illusion" [ 9].

The naked childhood of the title of Maurice Pialat's first feature film, from 1968, is one stripped of sentimental illusions.

Like many a work produced in exile, "Beijing Coma" upholds spiritual self-sufficiency against the sentimental illusions of mass politics.

But it was pretty clear that he suffered no sentimental illusions about his bosses and had seen which way the wind was blowing.

In prose so brassy that it bruises the sensibilities, Luft, who died in 2005, illuminates the dark side of life in the spotlight and dispels any sentimental illusions about the glories of show business in Hollywood's classic age.

Sontag's shift to ethical advocacy produced such controversial public occasions as the 1982 Town Hall speech, in which she said farewell, once and for all, to any further sentimental illusions about Communism in power, even in such Third World countries as Cuba and North Vietnam, which she had earlier praised.

But it is an old and allowable indulgence (at least in France: "Lost Illusions," "Sentimental Education," "The Counterfeiters," "Nausea"), and the hope of such projects is that what they lose in grandeur and stateliness they will gain in immediacy and honesty; that their local littlenesses can radiate generally, if not universally.

To a world infested with synthesized romance, candlelit illusions and sentimental piety, "Kitchen Confidential offers a nice palate-clearing taste of poison.

And Williams's poetry is not cheaply sentimental, prettifying--it's harsh, as it uses illusion to strip away illusion.

She was the least sentimental of the bunch; she had the fewest illusions not only about the evils of the system, but about the weakness of society, human pettiness and the questionable grandeur of historical events.