Most post-Tennessee Williams drama is about reality intruding on the various illusions that keep our lives going.
Here are arguments about lucid dreaming, the ethics of building artificial brains, and various illusions, neurological disorders, or even out-of-body experiences: any philosophical theory of consciousness, he repeatedly insists, must be able to "explain" such anomalies.
The play is about gender and its various illusions and social conventions, and while there are laughs in it, Norris's topicality, rather than his artistry, drives the script.
Emma's own mediocrity is part and parcel of the provincial society in which she lives, and her illusory view is paralleled by the various illusions entertained by all the major characters.
Mr. Robbins invokes each of them with the help of a small cast and various illusions, which, like Penn & Teller's feats, involve snarky wit, expert execution and hapless theatergoers.
These decorations, which interweave various illusions of reality in a way that was more complex even than Raphael's famous paintings in the Vatican loggia, were a triumph of classicism tempered with humanity.
A fun way to help students increase their academic vocabulary about this topic — with the goal of ultimately being able to understand a Times article about illusion — is to pre-teach the words, then show various illusions, and finally have students use their new words and phrases to describe what they saw.
It generates various illusions, focii imaginarii (A644/B672), that on the one hand, can help direct our intellectual practices, but on the other hand, lead us into error.
If faith were so open, so blind, then presumably we could also affirm the various illusions of theoretical reason as well.
This has contributed to making the Israeli-Palestinian conflict both chronic and intractable, as the various illusions are continuously and consciously nurtured by the daily encounters between the two sides.
