Sentence examples for the mere illusion from inspiring English sources

For instance, healthy people can be deluded into greater happiness when granted the mere illusion of control over their environment; the clinically depressed recognize the illusion for what it is.

They had thus replaced real selfhood with the mere illusion of one.

This serves to convey to us the mere illusion of riches, because wherever we direct our attention, there we find a conscious perceptual content.

This necessitates arranging good governance so that it goes beyond the mere illusion of caring by using participatory devices and ethical expert input as a scapegoat for moral acceptability.

He held it to be "absolutely self-evident" (SI, 561), and he believed consequently that the idea of a non-Euclidean space is a "chimera" (SI, 456) and that the various non-Euclidean geometries are "the mere illusion of specialists" (SI, xxxix).

On one side, the skeptical Houdini (Michael Weston), who knew that magic was the stuff of mere illusion; on the other, psychic-bothering writer Conan Doyle Stephen Mangann), who believed that his pal was actually conjuring the dark forces in his escapism acts.

The disparagement of the sensory realm as mere illusion ("the veil of Maya"), characteristic of much Indian religion, went hand in hand with a philosophy of embodiment (karma), which gave a distinctive role to art both as an instrument of worship and as an earthly delight.

Metaphysical idealism, he says, "is a theory as to the nature of the real world, however we may come to know that nature", namely, as he says quoting from another philosopher of the time, "'the belief in a spiritual principle at the basis of the world, without the reduction of the physical world to a mere illusion'" (Royce, The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, pp. xii xiii).

The support system is mainly concentrated to the bank network in India that too in limited extent (Satyasai 2003); hence, expecting a miraculous result without correcting the imbalances in the outreach is a mere illusion (Satyasai 2008).

The stars you see in the unfathomable distance aren't a mere illusion, like fairy lights studded into a black curtain of a stage backdrop, but real orbs.

Frawley says her outer appearance as poverty is deceptive and a mere illusion that hides the inner reality.