Sentence examples for shattering illusions from inspiring English sources

I love shattering illusions.

In a symbolic first act of openness, a spokesperson has announced that "there is no secret handshake", shattering illusions of alternating grips and intertwined thumbs.

The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality.

As Swiss wrote the series of essays that were eventually collected in his book "Shattering Illusions," he arrived at the idea that magic was, in his words, "an experiment in empathy" — a contest of minds, in which the magician dominates by a superior grasp of the way minds work.

What will emerge from these shattered illusions?

But then came a couple of industry-sponsored tastings that might have restored some of Ms. Robinson's shattered illusions.

Mr. Margulies not only confronts shattered illusions, but the process of shattering them, and the helplessness of being inexorably drawn into that painful process.

But clues have not been in great abundance in State College since the Jerry Sandusky scandal engulfed the campus and Joe Paterno's lawn turned into a gathering place for shattered illusions.

New York State BARD SUMMERSCAPE Annandale-on-Hudson. Ibsen's grim and insightful 1884 tale of shattered illusions, "The Wild Duck" (July 13-24) takes up the theatrical slot of this annual multidisciplinary festival that also features music and opera.

Mr. Dodin calls his play "the story of lost hopes and shattered illusions," adding: "It is about what many of the actors personally have encountered in all the years they have been performing this show.

"We, the undersigned, do hereby protest with extreme vehemence as well as shattered illusions (in you) the preference of David Hemmings above Mick Jagger in the role of Alex in The Clockwork Orange," the petition read.