Sentence examples for temporary illusion from inspiring English sources

The security fence, she said, provides the temporary illusion of "we are here and they are there".

Clinton was like Reagan in one critical respect: he provided a temporary illusion of compatibility for mutually irreconcilable positions.

The valley is divided between those who pray for stability and others who describe the calm as a temporary illusion imposed by the military boot.

Having Woolas talking tough on immigration isn't going to solve the problem; it only gives the temporary illusion that something is being done about it.

But in many cases, such as that of the Jadriyah Lake park, the investments under the plan, known as the Commander's Emergency Response Program, have created no more than a temporary illusion of progress.

And again, in our fascination with an elaborate tale of secret trips in shaded limousines & of secret proposals & counterproposals, we seemed willing to enjoy the temporary illusion that there was no reality (& perhaps no war).

It is possible that the sequence of a temporary semantic illusion stage followed by detection of "deep incongruity" constitutes the "twist" whose detection and successful reinterpretation (or "frame shifting"; Coulson, 2001) actually renders the sense of amusement.

The purpose of film festivals is to create the temporary and seductive illusion that movies are everything, a notion that the best films in any given festival will at once affirm and disprove.

The temporary and deceiving illusion that is brought forth by the Shift button is that EVERYTHING has shifted.

"Of course hells realms, like every other realm in samsara – the world of illusion – are temporary.

But three years later much of that looks like an illusion — a temporary echo of liberalism's golden age, evoking successes that today's Democratic Party can't recapture.