Sentence examples for ultimate illusion from inspiring English sources

The Ultimate Illusion Then there is water.

But the ultimate illusion onstage at the MGM Mirage and at Mr. Yates's apartment was always the illusion that these animals could be tamed, an image reinforced by innumerable publicity photos of Siegfried & Roy lounging with their animals.

But the ultimate illusion, perhaps, is bringing the sea to the desert, so now you will find a "rain forest" and several waterfalls at the Mirage (the name is no accident), a "shark reef" aquarium at Mandalay Bay, a "Grand Canal" at the Venetian and of course all those remarkable fountains at the Bellagio.

Wells's way of writing and living — provisional, pragmatic, epicurean — was his principled response to a universe in which ultimate values seemed an illusion.

In any case, no one in Quanwang has any illusions about where ultimate power resides.

On Jan . 1 , 1951Anne O'Hare McCormick, the foreign affairs columnist, wrote, "News is the destroyer of illusions and the ultimate policy maker".

In an asylum without walls, there is "nothing to limit the illusion of absolute liberty"; ultimate control is when people no longer feel they are being coerced.

If suburban affluence holds out a dream of ultimate security, the price of that illusion is the ostracizing of anything that could conceivably burst that bubble.

In the Vedic philosophy of India, the spider is depicted as hiding the ultimate reality with the veils of illusion.

According to Smilansky, we 'fragile … plants need to be defended from the chill of the ultimate perspective in the hothouse of illusion' (2002, p. 501).

Memento Mori is a kind of moral fable, whose ultimate aim is not to create an illusion of life but to defamiliarise it for an instructive purpose.