Sentence examples for through the illusion from inspiring English sources

They give teenagers the exhilaration of hope through the illusion of power.

What these gas prices really do is let you see through the illusion of shiny new cars.

It is, rather, that video games lead humans away from true progress through the illusion of accomplishment.

It purports to be as much emotional breakdown as comedy show, although – unlike with Vegas – a little light is let through the illusion.

You couldn't see through the illusion except by using the sort of logic employed by Dr. Bostrom, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.

But sooner or later, she breaks through the illusion of composure, letting a sob or a sharp edge into her silky voice.

Eustis recalls, "One time, after seeing a run-through of 'The Illusion' "—Kushner's 1989 adaptation of Corneille's comedy and his first commercial success—"he called me from his apartment after he'd destroyed every piece of furniture".

(Or is the genealogy through the illusion-breaking monologues, framing the narrative, of George Burns and then Gary Shandling?) The quiz show, no matter how banal the form, no matter what scandals taint its history, cannot die because -- like sports programming -- it offers predictable unpredictability.

It's about maya – that if we can cut through the illusions and connect with something larger we can do all sorts of things.

Far from debunking morality, then, the science of the moral sense can advance it, by allowing us to see through the illusions that evolution and culture have saddled us with and to focus on goals we can share and defend.

Yet mostly they are songs about yearning, about the desire to somehow break through the illusions and trappings of the "sprawl".