Sentence examples for some illusory from inspiring English sources

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They advocate pain for others in the service of some illusory benefit.

Beyond that, however, people's memories are bound to contradict each other, and you shouldn't hold them up to some illusory ideal of the definitive account.

Or maybe it is just about putting things where they belong, some illusory notion about the order found in small things leading to an order in larger things.

Trident, the third runway or post office privatisation are mere positioning in some illusory business-pleasing ploy, their long-term damage far outweighing one day's headlines.

They suggest that the work of historians should be judged like that of fiction writers, for its rhetorical power and capacity of imaginative conviction, not for some illusory factual truth.

I think the reason people would sit at the tables 14 hours a day, for 40 years, isn't just down to some illusory addiction, but because they love sitting there spinning yarns".

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Much of this progress is genuine, though some is illusory, as schools have learnt how to play the league tables by directing students towards easier subjects and vocational qualifications.

This means that some people have illusory superiority, and some experts can't explain how they do things because they assume what they do is easy or obvious to all.

It does not reach some sort of illusory "balance" with the environment because of some intrinsic harmonious drive to be at one with Earth, quite the opposite in fact.

It gives me some -- possibly illusory -- feeling of playing a role in the community".

It only adds to Chopin's luster that he can appeal to so many different tastes and experiences, and it tells us nothing about the brain, except to define some kind of illusory deviance.

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