Sentence examples for startling illusion from inspiring English sources

He wears a soft navy cardigan, a corduroy newsboy cap, and glasses that sometimes reflect the giant clocks he cares for, creating the startling illusion that he has clocks for eyes.

An even more startling illusion is the garage door, which looks like a roll-down but is in fact made of vertically hinged panels that can be folded open during business hours to reveal the visitors' center and entrance.

But often, as one continues to gaze, a strange sort of turbulence appears among the dots, and then a startling illusion — an image, a shape, whatever — will suddenly appear far above, or far below, the plane of the paper.

At the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, where her show, "Night Moves," can be seen through Sept. 30, visitors wearing special glasses find a startling illusion -- three-dimensional horses that seem to be rising from the floor.

The artist may either record this effect exactly, producing a startling illusion of reality that seems to violate the picture plane (surface of the picture), or modify it, slightly reducing the relative size of the nearer part of the object, so as to make a less-aggressive assault on the viewer's eye and to relate the foreshortened object more harmoniously to the rest of the picture.

Harlan Crane, the subject of "A Precursor of the Cinema," is a "minor illustrator" in New York during the "seductive prehistory" of the film industry, when "a host of brilliant toys, spectacles and entertainments... produced vivid and startling illusions of motion". Crane's paintings, displayed at his Phantoptic Theater, are so lifelike that many observers insist they can see them move.

At other moments, the puppeteers lift their actors into the air with a startling ease that gives the illusion of flight.

"We are manufacturing a number of magical illusions that are most startling and weird," he wrote.

Punch's critic praised the "startling vividness" of the writing, which gave "the illusion of taking a peep into a past which is made to come alive".

Tiger sharks may "enjoy the interaction and touch of humans," she said, but "we are under no illusions that a simple mistake by startling or arousing the curiosity of a shark can result in a fatal bite.

The ad looked fantastic, he said; the illusion of my bodiless head prattling away was genuinely startling and hilarious, and he hoped there would be follow-up ads in the pipeline.