illusion (expand with variations)
He and his alter ego, Tony Blair, scarcely impact on the world at all: they are ghostly presences who live in a parallel universe of illusion, of what seems to be rather than of what is.
But were we right to?Did we have the right to?No, no, no! For what is this illusion of meteorological bliss?It is no more - say the mongers of misery who shape the way we feel -than a prelude to catastrophe.
Before he tripped over his fork and fell on his avarice, George Radwanski repeatedly pointed out the dangers of sacrificing individual privacy rights to create the illusion of group security.
These realms are all about glamour and make-believe, fantasy and illusion.
The seasons shift before my eyes like an illusion.
(If the sighting had taken place downriver in Pittsburgh, it would have been explained as an optical illusion created by smog layers.) Showers of blood, faces on floors, objects in the sky, the Dry Falls entity: they are one and the same.
It contains uncertainty, illusion, an element of make-believe or fantasy, and allows one to take risks, or explore new roles.
Disavow the illusion and the game is over.
The word illusion literally means "in play."This pampered childhood is enough to dispel quaint illusions about the necessary hardship of fifteenth-century life.
The Hindus and Buddhists say that our every day world is an illusion called Maya and what I've been reading about quantum physics seems to support that.
In the case of Aguinaldo’s stand upper, the result would have benefited FPJ since it would show the front part of the crowd and create an illusion of a crowded venue rather than the sparse attendance.
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