Sentence examples for upon the illusion from inspiring English sources

What I'm trying to suggest to the actors is that the modern situation is predicated upon the illusion of the self's isolation — that business of 'I'm alone, you're alone, we can bullshit each other when we're fucking or whatever else, but the truth is we're alone.

When attaining the universal consciousness of humanity that transcends spatial and temporal determinations, the desires that derive their significance from one's personal condition as a spatio-temporal individual are seen for what they are, as being grounded upon the illusion of fragmentation, and they thereby lose much their compelling force.

Both genres employ the narrator as protagonist and "rely upon the illusion of presence in their mode of signification".

This is the trompe l'oeil that Design Home is founded upon: the illusion that you can turn a profit.

Wolfe writes: The leaders of the nation had fixed their gaze so long upon the illusions of false prosperity that they had forgotten what America looked like.

But when I do open myself to being taught by others, I create my own altar -- so to speak -- and place upon it the illusion that I already have all the information I need to be right.

But upon further exploration, we realize that our perception was the illusion all along and not reality itself.

He composited half a dozen photos of deserts, lakes, broken mirrors, and a fish to create the illusion of a pristine lake that shattered upon hitting the shore. .

This is wonderful, but it implies a temptation for foolishness; the temptation consists in the illusion that there is a ground to build upon".

His tweet heavily pulls upon negative stereotypes about Asian people that were created to create the illusion of white biological and cultural superiority.

Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.