Sentences with phrase «by the illusion of»

By the illusion of critical power that turns us from the source of truth, or by the eternal partner to whom we must open our hearing to find our way?

I am not burdened by the illusion of religion.

A lot of the anxiety in our generation is caused by an illusion of total control over our lives.

The older man is not plagued by the illusion of hope, but he is on the other hand by the whimsical idea of looking down at the illusion of youth from a supposedly superior standpoint which is free from illusion.

Human beings were so charmed by the illusion of control Newton's metaphor offered that we began to see ourselves as machines too.

The path is a spiritual one; when we are constantly barraged with and consumed by the illusions of the outer world, we forget this truth.

Almost 100 years later we still live in a world increasingly affected by war, unemployment and poverty, a reality that nonetheless remains discreetly hidden under the carpet by the illusion of a global democratic society, where most people have access to the internet, and where an overestimated middle class is entertained by lavish sports competitions.

Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine pivots on several paradoxes: of acting, which involves self - expression via self - effacement; of media, which parasitically feeds on people, offering audiences catharsis while enslaving them with feelings of inferiority; and of the relationship between fiction and nonfiction, which is characterized by an illusion of distinguishability that affirms the greater illusion of the existence of objectivity.

The entire system characterized by the illusion of an unlimited growth and consumption is not sustainable in a finite world and the economic and social crises we are seeing in the last years are, undoubtedly, worrying signs of crumbling perspectives.

Our members across this country are not blinded by the illusion of choice.»

In other words, viewers no longer focus on an object atop a pedestal placed within the open space of a room as they do in regarding conventional sculpture, but are directed to one wall and then across to the other, at first bemused by the illusion of the figures coming through the wall before realizing that they are seeing two halves of a whole.

They can not escape the structure; yet they seem fooled by the illusions of freedom.

As a young artist I was easily dazzled by the illusion of light...

Being encountered by illusions of shifting perspectives and vibration, the viewers will be able to examine their own possibilities of visual perception.

They are guided by the illusion of love forever, instead of being realistic and understanding that there is no such thing as love forever!

Not exact matches

That is an illusion created by the fact that we spend an enormous amount of time online, and find everything we use on the internet.

Ultrahaptics pairs gesture technology with tactile feedback by using ultrasonic waves that cause the user's skin to vibrate, creating the illusion of touching buttons or other physical objects and allowing users to control devices seemingly in mid-air.

Between that video, which showcases optical illusions created by real objects, and Google's award winning commercial Google Chrome Speed Test, that compares the browser to a potato gun, 1stAveMachine credits practical design — that is, building real projects instead of using digital trickery.

As Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert says, «I would argue that in some cases your performance can be enhanced by generating in yourself just the right amount of illusion about your own performance.

Then, Oculus Chief Scientist Mike Abrash spent the majority of his presentation presenting us with some common optical illusions, proving that the brain is easily tricked by virtual reality.

Students «learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates («chunks») information,» as well as «illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.»

She'd lull her victim into a false sense of security and once his defenses were dissolved into complacency by a soft, girly, vulnerable illusion, Corcoran would go in for the kill, a red widow spider of real estate.

In 1932 he wrote a widely circulated pamphlet decrying the measures in which he ended by saying, «Although that was not the intention, this emergency decree will help my party to victory, and therefore put an end to the illusions of the present System.»

«Much of the welfare state concept was always an illusion, one financed by lavish amounts of debt for which present and future taxpayers will pay in the form of higher taxes and reduced services during their lifetimes,» writes University of Calgary lecturer Mark Milke in a recent article.

Certainly a lot of innovative people have ensured a comfortable retirement by making that illusion easy to create.

They're particularly intrigued by the way stage magicians toy with our expectations and assumptions, or offer «the illusion of choice.»

Worst of all, Luhnow and his execs were openly violating the baseball compact by which rebuilding teams were supposed to obscure their long - term plan by maintaining the illusion that they were genuinely trying to win each and every year, even if it meant losing just a little less.

Kim launched her career by associating herself with Ray J, a B - list celebrity, who gave her the illusion of importance, allowing the public to associate her with more fame than she possessed.

Certain activist investors love serial acquirers because they can create the illusion of growth by indiscriminately acquiring other companies.

Misguided by Keynesian falsehoods, they promise or at least create the illusion of a materialistic paradise on earth by simply increasing debt based money out of keystrokes of a computer.

This would help mitigate the risks associated with what is widely perceived as a «liquidity illusion».10 The transition to such a market environment, however, could be accompanied by strained market conditions, as suggested by recent episodes of elevated bond market volatility.

«The Illusion of Equality: Provincial Distribution of the Canada Health and Social Transfer,» C.D. Howe Institute Commentary 80, by Kenneth J. Boessenkool (June).

Those who run the Fed are despondent that despite implementing for eight YEARS an interest rate policy specifically designed to enable Obama to create a totally false illusion of economic «recovery» by massively increasing government spending with trillions of phony, deficit, zero - interest - rate «dollars,» the people saw through the economic lie and defeated the Fed's next intended puppet, Clinton.

Perrigo may be nearing the «end of the line» as it pertains to maintaining the illusion created by non-GAAP earnings.

I think information is an illusion that can parallel physical processes yet does not partake nor change them but is dependent upon the relative viewpoint and interpretation of information itself by whoever is doing the talking.

His conversion on the road to Damascus is a fundamental description of how worldly knowledge and power are illusions that often enable us to persecute the Church but that, by grace ones vision may be put right.

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

From thousands and thousands of years of history, you are trying to make a case based on an incident that might have been little more than an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions.

With the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act last year and same - sex marriage now imposed by court after court, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic takeover.

That is why he had few illusions about throwing himself on Washington's mercy, though even he would be surprised by the coldness of the charity he eventually got.

Here we see John Paul's sense of the importance of culture as the interpretive key to history and the exposure of what Weigel calls the Jacobin and Marxist fallacies» the illusions that history is driven by a quest for power and that history is the «exhaust fumes of impersonal economic forces.»

In fact, some people test the space's safety by doing things they know will hurt people just to prove there is no safe haven on earth for anyone and that if we just give them one minute inside that space with these people, they will swiftly destroy their illusion of safety.

What was true before Pinterest will be true long after Pinterest gets destroyed by a tsunami cease and desist orders: The myth of the perfect wedding day is just one more story we tell ourselves to maintain the illusion of control.

«12 Robert Neale, Professor of Theology and Psychology at Union Seminary, agrees that attitude is crucial, believing play is distinguished by a sense of «adventure» as well as «by those elements of peace, freedom, delight, and illusion that occur in the modes of story and game.

In comedies as diverse as Shakespeare's and those on prime time television, life progresses from a state of crisis created by some illusion to a harmonious recovery brought about by discovering the true nature of the circumstances.

The illusion that Christian institutions can survive based on unspoken assumptions of shared beliefs has been shattered by cultural revolution and legal transformation.

By realism I mean two things: first, seeing the facts as they are and grasping them thoroughly, without evasion or illusion, without recoiling in fear or horror as it becomes evident what the result of some trend is likely to be.

For him eternity is the deceptive sensory illusion of the horizon; for him eternity is the bluish haze that limits time; for him eternity is the dazzling sleight - of - hand trick executed by the moment.

We should not be so overawed by the late American worship of technical reason that we enter once again the illusion of omnipotence.

When the natives, weakened by sickness, overwork, and trauma, died en masse, the illusion of reciprocity devolved into out - and - out slavery.