Sentence examples for the very illusion from inspiring English sources
The phrase "the very illusion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the nature of an illusion, often in a context discussing perception or reality. Example: "What we perceive as reality may just be the very illusion that clouds our judgment."
Not only were depressed individuals more realistic in their judgments, they argued, but the very illusion of being in control held by those who weren't depressed was likely protecting them from depression in the first place.
Of course, it's the very illusion of power for a teenager that is so seductive.
Perhaps it is the fact that Muammar Gaddafi exposes the illusion of the leader more than others; in the precise sense that the notion of a leader itself – the notion of the one who shows the way – is the very illusion that must be preserved.
It's a big moment right now for very small things, which permit the very persuasive illusion that you're eating only very small amounts while you're in fact racking up very large quantities of food.
And what is even more sad is that perhaps you are the very evil and illusion that becomes your very own stereotypes of black success.
The work great teachers accomplish -- whether it is teaching a first grader how to read, conducting a middle school orchestra in a masterful rendition of a challenging piece, or helping a high school senior land his first internship -- is the very opposite of illusion.
Referring to the same sequence, film theorist Andrew Hageman notes that "the ninety-second coda that follows Betty/Diane's suicide is a cinematic space that persists after the curtain has dropped on her living consciousness, and this persistent space is the very theatre where the illusion of illusion is continually unmasked".
There's nothing grand about the illusion of the French title; that illusion — the very subject of the film — concerns the futility and waste of war itself, the refutation of the patriotic call to arms.
Even if the European cathedrals are monuments to an illusion, the illusion is, at the very least, a large and awful one, and the monuments tragically impressive.
People such as Himmler had this illusion until the very end.
The article concluded that "a deal with the US has been an illusion from the very beginning".
