Sentence examples for to illusory from inspiring English sources

Yet even Wilson's sympathetic biographer, Arthur Link, notes that Wilson's faith in the miraculous power of democracy sometimes led him to "illusory appraisals and quixotic solutions".In the end Wilson's countrymen rejected membership of the League of Nations, which Wilson believed to be the key to a new world order.

The RHI condition induced a strong ownership illusion; we found correspondingly stronger brain activity during the RHI versus control condition in contralateral middle occipital gyrus (mOCG) and bilateral anterior insula, which have previously been related to illusory body ownership.

It allots a clear and defensible function to punishment (social defense) without yielding to atavistic demands for retaliation or to illusory deontological demands for pure retributive justice, and without pretending that the punishments it metes out are "deserved" in any fundamental sense.

She is influenced by old-world rococo and glamor, "both the lure of fleeting modern day high fashion glamor... as well as the original meaning of the term glamor, which in ancient times referred to illusory shapeshifting used by supernatural beings to perilously enchant hapless humans".

These subjects are referred to as 'susceptible to illusory discontinuity'.

Indeed, in the classic mode of presentation, cells responsive to illusory contours induced by Kanizsa-like stimuli have systematically been reported in V2 [37] [39] (see [40] for a review) but not in V1.

Given the contrived conditions of movie viewing, there is more reason to think of cinematic motion as akin to an illusory, than to a genuine, experience of color.

But the profits turned out to be illusory, according to many former employees.

The patient not only felt this presence during brain stimulation, but also attributed motives to the illusory figure "He wants to take the card".

We show that visual hallucinations are associated with a tendency to accept illusory perceptions as real, in order to avoid missing true perceptions.

Intriguingly, these pathways are distinguished by their sensitivities to a stimulus correlation that corresponds to an illusory percept, "reverse phi," that affects many species.