Sentence examples for set the illusion from inspiring English sources

Many films incorporate extraneous material within their fictions in order to set the illusion of the story they tell against the hard reality of other types of images.

Cascading velvet curtains, marquee lights, distressed hardwood and grand staircases set the illusion of an elegant 1920s theatre, while multiple stages spotlighting feather-headressed burlesque dancers complete the vintage spectacle.

If you take bigger steps, you'll set the illusion that you walking faster.

These dismal business efforts—and his misadventures in Sardinia provided an appropriate milieu in which to set the two-volume Illusions Perdues (Lost Illusions, 1843).

Even as a child, you could flip through a book of optical illusions, set the book down, and go about your merry damn way without worrying about it or arguing about it again.

You can also deliberately block the audience's view as is done in the Superman or King levitation, where you place a jacket in front of your feet while setting up the illusion.

It is time to set that illusion aside.

That they are all occupying Libby's space is a meaningful illusion -- in Randall Parsons's set the apartment has bluish-white walls and a long, horizontal window at the rear that gives the impression of looking out over the horizon.

On the one hand, the existence of so many illusions buys time and sets the horizon at the end of a long process of conversations between both administrations, which could go on for years.

Spielberg ensured the puppeteers kept away from the set to maintain the illusion of a real alien.

She seems to, but she had set up the whole illusion herself by leaving a copy of Variety on the table where he sits.