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
They don't want to deceive each other with illusory promises of undying love.
The protection might, however, be illusory if the onus lay on him to prove that he was actuated solely by a sense of the relevant duty or a desire to protect the relevant interest.
It was quite possible that a general theory of temporality was an illusory goal. THE DISPOSSESSED
At first Berkeley poured scorn on those who adhere to the concept of infinitesimal. maintaining that the use of infinitesimals in deriving mathematical results is illusory, and is in fact eliminable. Continuity and Infinitesimals
The projected savings in congestion and pollution are therefore illusory. Times, Sunday Times
This was soon to prove illusory. Times, Sunday Times
The prospect of getting their motion through was illusory rather than real.
Yet his bluff and phlegmatic exterior was to some extent illusory. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
The laudable, though illusory, cloak of improvement in the quality of patient care barely conceals a less acceptable political agenda. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of entering into an intermediate state, the yogi rises from the death state in what we call an illusory body, in place of the intermediate state. Mind Of Clear Light
Secularism does not end up healing wounds; it only applies an illusory balm.
So, certainly ‘traditional definitions’ of masculine and feminine need to be re-evaluated because they are based on a faulty understanding of an illusory division amongst contraries.
But just as it was in Buchan's day, the idyll is illusory.
More than a century ago, to give his womenfolk an illusory monsoon during the hottest months, a maharana created the Maids of Honour garden.
Another word in Professor Daly's lexicon is "foreground," which she defines as the illusory reality established over the centuries within a male-dominated, hierarchical culture bent on destroying women, animals and the earth. BlogHer
Furthermore, any resonance with the Earth is illusory in that Mercury is not well placed for observations except during its brief greatest elongations near its aphelion.
Then shall we discover that the price of brotherhood is not nearly so costly or so illusory as the price we have been headlessly paying for the lack thereof. The Price of Brotherhood
Godard was lost in Plato's cave from the outset, so he should not be surprised when this illusory ersatz world of film proves unsatisfactory - as a replacement for life, it is indeed a very unsatisfactory substitute.
The vast benefits many farmers saw as accruing to cities as a result of rural exploitation were no more than illusory.
If we give up some short-term illusory growth as a side effect of curtailing their activities, this is a small price to pay. NYT > Home Page
Our ability to think in abstractions without using the physical world as a base tends to be illusory.
The projected savings in congestion and pollution are therefore illusory. Times, Sunday Times
By humiliating others, a person gains an illusory sense of worth and importance.
Instead, he is a man with a nonexistent economic policy and an illusory budget plan.
Yet his bluff and phlegmatic exterior was to some extent illusory. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
Needless to say, after more than a decade of internecine strife, all this faddish Conservative unity is somewhat fragile, not to say illusory.
Those works which shows People's subjective senses and the writer's aesthetic standards, are also real and acceptable, although they are illusory and unachievable.
With the possible exception of Parmenides, none of the ancients or medievals who accepted eternity as a real, atemporal mode of existence meant thereby to deny the reality of time or to suggest that all temporal experiences are illusory.
The cinema is characterised by an illusory sensory plenitude (there is ‘so much to see’) and yet haunted by the absence of those very objects which are there to be seen.
It would be absurd to say that holes in socks are unreal and illusory just because the hole isn't made of anything and is purely an absence.
Yet his bluff and phlegmatic exterior was to some extent illusory. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
All claims to objectivity become spurious and illusory.
Some stores are trying to bamboozle exhausted shoppers with illusory bargains.
Fabre explains that his metaphors are simultaneously real and illusory, physical and abstract, living and dead.
Promises of a transformation of public transport proved illusory. Times, Sunday Times
Furthermore, any resonance with the Earth is illusory in that Mercury is not well placed for observations except during its brief greatest elongations near its aphelion.
Around the edges of the room, behind the forest of illusory ferns and gingkoes and cycads, other extinct species lurked, here a hyaenodon with its vicious teeth; there a massetognathus like a big, skinny rat; watching it carefully, a dog-like direwolf; all part of an anachronistic conglomeration, a fantastical celebration of the weird and wild things the need to survive had come up with over the eons. THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE by Ruth Nestvold | Fiction | Futurismic
Artist Michael Garfield referred to it as "playing hopscotch across illusory divides in the intertidal zone between technology and spirituality, science and art, self and other, individual and collective. Jason Silva: The Beginning of Infinity
He never concerned himself with diverting or weaving an illusory web for his audience.
However, with Silvestrov, the feel of the scherzo imbues the adagio so that what was once regarded as solemn is now seen as vacuous and illusory.
His composition is now and then somewhat disconnected; the impressions are vague, almost illusory, and the mirage is a little obscure, but the intense and abiding charm of Nature remains. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The forbearing wisdom on Sam's features was illusory, surely. THE LAST RAVEN
The laudable, though illusory, cloak of improvement in the quality of patient care barely conceals a less acceptable political agenda. Times, Sunday Times
Searle's ontology contains, implicitly, a distinction between veridical and illusory we-intentions.
The laudable, though illusory, cloak of improvement in the quality of patient care barely conceals a less acceptable political agenda. Times, Sunday Times
Otherwise the dodoes would be only what they appear as in the world's illusory light-only our prey. Gravity's Rainbow
Leland added: Since none the less the gentry of the vicinity were anything but affluent, the profits may have been largely illusory.
PS -- Yes, it's supposed to be "illusive" as in "illusory," as opposed to Piggington's Econo-Almanac
A despotic administration was supported by a parliamentary representation as corrupt as illusory; a church, in which spiritual religion was all but extinct, had sold herself as a bondslave to the governing classes. The Grand Old Man
The arbitrariness of these figures is itself an indication of the illusory nature of the benefits.
Even if it were possible for self-consciousness to be illusory, its mere occurrence is enough to refute those who take the view that the notion of a substantival self is as 'meaningless' as the notion of an unknowable substratum of material things. Campbell on Self-Consciousness and the Substantival Self
The laudable, though illusory, cloak of improvement in the quality of patient care barely conceals a less acceptable political agenda. Times, Sunday Times
Each year the monastery's monks perform sacred chham dances that enact the illusory nature of life.
And the SEC says Dell consistently misrepresented how it has generated consistent growth numbers resulting in illusory stock values that made possible Michael Dell's astronomical stock option gains. Stark Lessons From The Dell Fraud Case
It is equally credible that her sense of an ending was illusory. The Times Literary Supplement
The defendants are justified in their contention that the remedy of the party damnified by the solicitor's misconduct will become illusory.
She had never seemed so insubstantial, so illusory.
As a quick test, imagine you're in a convertible shooting down some west coast highway (as in California, not Wales), one hand on an illusory steering wheel.
The feelings of solidity and permanence are illusory, for nothing is truly solid and permanent in this life.
Yet his bluff and phlegmatic exterior was to some extent illusory. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
The $ 200, 000 capital gain is illusory, reflecting the change in the overall price level since 1962.
Even their displays of competitive compassion only emphasise how illusory the choice is.
His largely illusory professional status, maintained in the interest of bella figura, masked the reality of his desperate circumstances, just as his own worldly views were at variance with those of his unseen aunt, through whom he voiced visceral prejudices and beliefs. Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
Q: The idea in Buddhism is what is real/what is not real is illusory; that's why the Tibetan Book of the Dead has connected with people tripping on acid. Brad Balfour: Exclusive Q&A: Director Gaspar Noe's View of The Cusp of Death As Detailed in Enter The Void
– There are a few more phrases that I think could maybe be toned down: “pleading ritualism,” “unfathomable impossibility,” “illusory biology,” “contradictive peculiarity …” Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
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
I don't suppose that it has occurred to you that the war in Iraq, a war of choice that was never essential to our national defense, a war that was based on false premises and mismanaged from the start, a war that has wasted treasure and lives in pursuit of an illusory goal, has done more to effectively disarm America than anything in your or my lifetime. The Wrath of Kofi
It was a manifestly reformist practice carried on in the name of an illusory revolutionism. The Society of the Spectacle-by Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb)
The donnishness at least is not illusory: he lectures in forensic medicine at the University of Turin.
There was a fruitless search for an illusory entity called 'moksha' (salvation). How Hinduism destroyed the Military - Part II
One of the leading themes of current philosophy is that the notion of objectivity is utterly illusory.
As a final example, Kellman and Spelke [54] showed that motion contributes to lower the age at which infants become able to perceive amodal figures, just like it does for illusory figures. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
There are further parallels to be drawn within this illusory cat 's cradle of fiction, memoir and biography. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, it is illusory and delusory, and yes we know that, but we must continue to live in it.
On this page look out for the dropped waist bodice, above knee skirt lengths that begin to hesitate and gain illusory length with the addition of flutes and frills.
Yet his bluff and phlegmatic exterior was to some extent illusory. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
But it's an illusory solution because it has little to do with wealth creation.
The dilapidated facilities and overstretched editorial staff prove how illusory this prediction was.
While Australia might appear to have substantial control over the size of the immigration intake by setting annual quotas for immigrant entry, the extent of control here is partly illusory.
It would be absurd to say that holes in socks are unreal and illusory just because the hole isn't made of anything and is purely an absence.
When England take an early lead they become overwhelmed by an illusory sense of their own brilliance and stop bothering altogether. Times, Sunday Times
Their hopes of a peaceful solution turned out to be illusory.
That is where the problems start, with Tony Blair trying to find an illusory third way between two irreconcilable opinions.
In the former case, on the other hand, one accepts the claims about how experience and agency seem to us but simply dismisses such seemings as illusory.
As such, Yellowstone reflects ‘the limitations and illusory power of nature preservation in a commodity-driven, anthropocentric culture’.
The laudable, though illusory, cloak of improvement in the quality of patient care barely conceals a less acceptable political agenda. Times, Sunday Times
At the end of the day, there is a short-term illusory benefit from having fewer shares in issue. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
He observed that meetings served several illusory purposes: communication, decision making, and responsibility.
Kim, H. and R. Cabeza, Trusting our memories: dissociating the neural correlates of confidence in veridical versus illusory memories. Srinivasan Pillay: Overcoming Parental Guilt: Perspectives From Brain Biology
He longs for the realisation of Shiva amidst the trammels of the illusory cosmos.
I'd rather have universal high quality than illusory choice at the margins and the so-called postcode lottery. Archive 2007-11-11
Yet his bluff and phlegmatic exterior was to some extent illusory. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
No one should be fooled by the illusory claims of the opinion pollsters.
But pre-recorded, studio-issued sell-through videotapes feed the home viewer's illusory sense that they own and are watching a film.
As I recall, we could hear him smacking his lips in illusory ecstasy, even from the back seat. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 609
And always our hopes proved illusory. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
Underwood reconsiders Foucault's resistance to historical continuity in the light of the Romantic pedagogy that instituted the study of discrete literary periods; Pfau compares Charles Taylor's attack on the teleological systematization of liberal society as an economy, and what Taylor considers to be an illusory negative vision of "freedom" that shadows that systematization, with Rei Terada
Progress towards equity is both real and illusory, things both have and have not progressed.
Modern indifference rests on economism: on the illusory and in principle non-completable separation of the economic from the political, of private from public, of gift from exchange.
In my view, where a citizen is outside Canada, the Government of Canada has a positive obligation to issue an emergency passport to that citizen to permit him or her to enter Canada; otherwise, the right guaranteed by the Government of Canada in subsection 6 (1) of the Charter is illusory. Archive 2009-06-01
I came away, however, understanding that the notion of freewill could be an illusory concept, if an individual as a child, was conditioned to accept that violence, emotional and physical pain, degradation, and hopelessness was simply the stuff of existence. Protect the Roosters! To hell with domestic violence victims!
The heat rippled watery mirages on the road, teasing my hot hand with illusory coolness.
The hoped-for boom in jobs has so far proved illusory. Times, Sunday Times
The illusory nature of what we experience can be seen most clearly by examining the dream state.
The object of the contract is to insure against accidental death and injuries, and the contract must not be construed so as to defeat that object, nor so as to render it practically illusory.
The search for knowledge and in particular self-knowledge that started in my journey with Oedipus, is not only illusory, it is also a conceit, perhaps also a male conceit.
It was total voyeurism, and several people who were on the show had trouble afterwards adjusting to the fact that their fame was illusory - a deceiving phantom.
But it's an illusory prize and not worth the sacrifice of lives and principles.
While the data supporting mobile phone risk is illusory, our commitment to risk is quite real.
The truck, painted an illusory forest green, appeared as a moving speck in the distance, working haltingly over the ruts and craters of what was once and occasionally a dirt road. The Silence
Turn to the window at the other end of the upper floor and the view of real Oxford is again illusory.
The philosophy of pure reason is either propaedeutic, that is, an inquiry into the powers of reason in regard to pure a priori cognition, and is termed critical philosophy; or it is, secondly, the system of pure reason -- a science containing the systematic presentation of the whole body of philosophical knowledge, true as well as illusory, given by pure reason -- and is called metaphysic. The Critique of Pure Reason
Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy
Their hopes of a peaceful solution turned out to be illusory.
The so-called captivation of our visual capacity plays a not unimportant part in distinguishing correct from illusory seeing. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Thus, observation shows that poisoning by rose-santonin (that well-known worm remedy to which children are so abnormally sensitive) causes a long-enduring, bitter taste; sub-cutaneous morphine poisoning causes illusory bitter and sour tastes. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Hopes of an end to the conflict proved illusory. Times, Sunday Times
Under certain safeguards of an illusory character the French were reduced to accepting this meaningless formula.
The abolition of religion as people's illusory happiness is the demand for their real happiness.
Further enhancing the illusory effect of the reflective scales, dark pigment surrounding each white ocellar scale varies in intensity, apparently depending on the stress level of the animal. Archive 2006-11-01
Trevelyan masterfully depicts Marlborough's campaigns, but in illusory power it is doubtful that Churchill's historic battle scenes can be surpassed. Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 - Presentation Speech
A third time he approached in the same manner, when the Christian knight, desirous to terminate this illusory warfare, in which he might at length have been worn out by the activity of his foeman, suddenly seized the mace which hung at his saddle-bow, and, with a strong hand and unerring aim, hurled it against the head of the Emir, for such and not less his enemy appeared. The Talisman
The purpose of the Vedas is to cut down the illusory tree of the material world and attain the real tree of the spiritual world.
We should not be surprised the DCI is more interested in crime figures when so much of the Chief Officer bonus is paid out to create the illusory effect of crime reduction. They Just Don’t Get It. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Too often the short-term gains were illusory. Times, Sunday Times
At first Berkeley poured scorn on those who adhere to the concept of infinitesimal, maintaining that the use of infinitesimals in deriving mathematical results is illusory, and is in fact eliminable.
The guilt was always there, it was everpresent, but these days it had become somewhat muffled guilt—everything came to her these days as muffled, not-quite-there, illusory, everything except her overpowering anxiety over Ashish. For the Sake of the Boy
The apparent superiority of the performance of other advanced industrial economies may prove illusory. Times, Sunday Times
Nature is Her effulgent shakti, not inconscient prakriti or illusory maya. Tantra and Transcendentalism – Emerson and Aurobindo
The object of the contract is to ensure against accidental death and injuries, and the contract must not be construed so as to defeat that object, nor so as to render it practically illusory.
Our mental freedom is probably illusory, for there must be unspecifiable physical factors that quietly "cause" all of our decisions.

How To Use Illusory In A Sentence

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