Sentence examples for useful illusion from inspiring English sources

But it is a useful illusion.

It encourages familial identification between fans and their favorite artists, and provides the useful illusion that the industry is less about money than about blood.

Another useful illusion: Scott Barnes's Body Bling in Original applied all over, with the Platinum shade on the fronts of the legs to streamline.

The border of the frame, which separates the on-screen action from the behind-the-scenes work (and, for that matter, from the world at large) is only a useful illusion.

In short, revolution is not a means to achieve socialism; rather, the myth of socialism is a useful illusion that turns ordinary men into comrades and revolutionaries united in a common struggle--a band of brothers, so to speak". Harris says free-market capitalism needs a "transformative myth of its own" to fight the myth of revolutionary socialism.

"It might have been an illusion, but it was a useful illusion," he told me.

But they are useful illusions.

Reference is a useful trick of mind but sometimes it is worth popping the illusion.

But Dixon ends his slavering indictment of Mulvey with an admission that the monster is simply a useful fiction, providing "the illusion of unity" to a group only capable of binding itself together "not by what it shares but ultimately by what it fears".

One type of such protective methods are known as debiasing techniques [73] which are useful for tackling focusing illusion.

The principal finding from experiment 1 is that this paradigm is useful for creating an illusion of touch on a foreign limb that appears visually aligned with one's own limb in personal space, and as produced by the finger touching the foreign limb.