Sentence examples for strange illusion from inspiring English sources

Sense of place turns out to be a strange illusion, a stylistic touch.

After the effective film noir Strange Illusion, Ulmer directed Club Havana (both 1945), a murder mystery set in a nightclub; Tom Neal starred as a doctor.

It helps explain the strange illusion that certain of his characters have lives independent of the play in which they appear.

After all, as De Sica asserted, there are millions of characters, but only 50 or 60 movie stars; it seemed to him a strange illusion that so few people could faithfully embody the experience of so many.

His film consists of strongly framed long shots in which the characters speak largely in mumbling monotones while remaining motionless, a style that recalls at once the deliberately zomboid acting of Edgar G. Ulmer's grade-Z classics of the 1940's ("Detour," "Strange Illusion") and the Brechtian alienation techniques of experimental European filmmakers like Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet.

However, it's all part of a strange illusion -- a web of extraordinary contradictions -- that shape wildlife management in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing Norah says, "I would give body parts to have a guy write something like that for me".

But many of the strange illusions are caused by something that is even less easy to escape: the simple lack of gravity.

We asked Jesse about how he does this, and about the strange illusions he finds on Australia's streets.

Do these strange optical illusions change the way you look at skin?

At 93mm the 3DS XL is roughly the same depth as the original system, but the added width (156mm compared with the 3DS's 138mm) has the strange and welcome illusion of making the handheld feel slimmer in the hands.