illusory

How To Use illusory In A Sentence

• There are further parallels to be drawn within this illusory cat 's cradle of fiction, memoir and biography. Times, Sunday Times
• Still less do we need to try and settle that rivalry by calling one of them real and the others more or less illusory.
• On the negative side, it gives a false or illusory idea of oneself as indispensable in the eyes of other people.
• In the latter case, dreams may be illusory, but their nature is familiar to us from our understanding of the waking world. Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
• For although a continuation of the bullary has just been published at Rome, containing several decrees of this congregation, there is not one that announces a fulfilment of this illusory promise, ” a promise imagined by a correspondent to French newspapers, but never given by the inquisitors themselves. Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
• Eventually the brief day begins to feel unreal, an illusory comfort for those who cannot take the unrelenting darkness.
• Consideration may also be said to be illusory where it is clear that the promisee would have accomplished the act of forbearance anyway, even if the promise had not been made.
• Attachment to the wealth in any form is to be sublimated by realization that all the wealth is illusory and the real Lord is our indwelling Self in everything.
• Such a hope proved illusory. Times, Sunday Times
• Being damaged is a hedge against the illusory promises of consumer culture. Christianity Today