Sentence examples for the illusion of unity from inspiring English sources

Much later in the day, it may fall to some neuroscientist to explain the illusion of unity, a last twist on successful accounts of many subspecies of mental processes and functions.

Launched in response to news that the Treaty of Sèvres had dismembered the Ottoman Empire in 1920, the Khilāfat movement coincided with the inception of satyagraha, thus giving the illusion of unity to India's nationalist agitation.

The long-range trend in modern movie history is the dispersion of the center — it's commonplace that Hollywood movies no longer offer a core of mainstream entertainment, because American society itself no longer presents the illusion of unity.

But Dixon ends his slavering indictment of Mulvey with an admission that the monster is simply a useful fiction, providing "the illusion of unity" to a group only capable of binding itself together "not by what it shares but ultimately by what it fears".

Trump inherited a political party that goes to great lengths to create the illusion of unity, but is divided at its core.

Shatter the illusion of integrity.

Under this illusion of unity, white people feel free to literally put on culture costumes and perform blackness.

There's something pleasing, I said, about the illusion of an irreducible unity.

For Camus, one of the ways of liberating oneself from the illusion of meaning and unity is to open up to the beauty of Nature and partake in it, abandoning oneself in privileged moments of hedonistic communion with wild environments, such as the rugged Algerian landscape or the Mediterranean, or in eroticism (1938a; see the moments of happiness in The Outsider, for example, 1942a, 23 24, 116 117).

Such narratives may be seen to involve the illusion of a false unity and they may also involve exclusionary politics.

They often sing in the "brother music" style of harmony associated with the Stanleys and the Everlys, which creates the illusion of a single voice, with just a glimmer of separateness that leaves the sense of unity flickering and uncanny.