Sentence examples for to illusion from inspiring English sources
noun
Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
- We saw what looked like a tiger among the trees, but it was an illusion caused by the shadows of the branches.
Suddenly, subtly, she gives the first indication of the character's capacity for submission to illusion.
We have certainly thought of him as a twentieth-century skeptic in a world devoted to illusion.
The consumption of food flavorings is one of the modern era's most profound collective acts of submission to illusion.
The consumption of food flavorings may stand as one of the modern era's most profound collective acts of submission to illusion.
It is therefore allied to illusion: "One day everything will be well, that is our hope," said Voltaire; "today everything is fine, that is our illusion".
The world is a madhouse prone to illusion, Wagner is saying, but here is a repository of wisdom and, through wisdom, contentment.
Though he is less averse to illusion-creating stagecraft than he was in his early days of stark naked sets, this show's look retains his signature do-it-yourself crudeness.
Such differences in visual environments show up in tests of susceptibility to illusions.
The moral sense, we are learning, is as vulnerable to illusions as the other senses.
"A huge quantity of time has been lost by holding on to illusions — the illusions of heroism, religion, Arab nationalism — and by not dealing with the Other.
The National Review, their standard-bearer, turned on the administration demanding "an end to illusions" spun by neo-conservatives.
