Sentence examples for use the illusion of from inspiring English sources

Public speakers use the illusion of eye contact to create emotional intimacy with the audience.

This may be true on the surface, but the U.S. government has been known to use the illusion of good intentions to mask its more pressing agenda, that of preserving American hegemony abroad and maintaining the status quo at home.

They shared a craftsmanly, neatness-counts aesthetic, and they used the illusion of realism to create an ideally ordered alternative world.

Click here to view video Contemporary art from elsewhere gave me far more – the Kabakovs with their tremendous lament for a mother Russia that might have been, using the illusion of cinema as the purest of metaphors; the lissome visions of the Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair in painting and sculpture at Tate Modern – Islam meeting modernism.

Both genres employed the narrator as protagonist and used "the illusion of presence in their mode of signification".

Recent thinking that has discredited the classic concept of secularism as the separation of church and state, redefining it as a state-building project that uses the illusion of separation to regulate and define religion to maintain state sovereignty.

The Romney team was put in the position of trying to use the unscientific illusions of some of its more eccentric nominees as camouflage for the actual policies of its standard bearers.

Rather, he uses the illusion-making powers of the medium to propose, politely if also mischievously, an alternative way of seeing things.

Except, I've already acknowledged that mistake: The second [big mistake] was circa 2003, over the Bush administration's use of the illusion of victory in Iraq to push through more tax cuts, even though the optimistic budget projections used to justify the first round had proved completely wrong.

The piece works by submerging audiences in a haze of blue fog using a digital multiplex (DMX) to control the density of two haze machines, which Nonotak use to create the illusion of three dimensions from 2D visuals.

Like a number of other young directors -- examples include Quentin Tarantino ("Pulp Fiction"), Christopher Nolan ("Memento") and Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run") -- Ms. Sprecher uses the cinematic illusion of sequentiality to keep us off balance.