Sentences with phrase «as the illusion of»

In essence, these dehydrated bananas are simply there to add flavor as well as an illusion of health and the «made with real fruit» tagline.

It's the paradox of social media — the more time we connect to Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms, the more alone we feel, as illusions of other people's happiness only underscore our state of solitude and feelings of disconnectedness.

Following the events of fsociety's five / nine hack on multi-national company Evil Corp, the second season explores the consequences of that attack as well as the illusion of control.

Despite the palpable sense of cinematic tremor that's worked into scene after scene, the focus of the film remains on faces — on Mackie's subtly desperate clutching to military rules as an illusion of order, Geraghty's soft - featured guilt and fear, and Renner's «rowdy boy» coolness threatening to crumble into despair.

While its exterior dimensions are virtually the same, the new X3's wheelbase has been extended by 2.2 inches, giving it a more firmly planted stance as well as the illusion of greater length.

David Klein shows Al Held as not just a one - trick pony, with geometric abstraction as the illusion of three dimensions, but every now and then a respectable colorist.

The seemingly malleable sculpture is a combination of cardboard and washi paper, extending Cunat's work as an illusion of form and material.

Maxwell's Penumbra, 1956, completed during his years in Texas is a fine example of his experimentation with color, scale and line as well as the illusion of depth through layers of color.

My work attempts to capture such a situation, caught in a perpetual state of transit where increasing complexity is often presented as the illusion of «progress».

This is not art as the illusion of money, in the manner of Haberle; instead, the art object is itself exposed as a material form of currency.

Before even entering the gallery the binaries of «yes» and «no» are presented as an illusion of choice, but with no discernible question and no implication of the consequences after one is chosen.

Not exact matches

Following 2008, NGDP targeting has grown from a topic of conversation largely limited to blogs such as Scott Sumner's The Money Illusion, to something discussed openly among central banks, prominent publications, and even Presidential candidates.

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.

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.»

Teams that fall victim to groupthink develop the illusion that they are unanimous in their thinking (silence is perceived as evidence of consensus).

We've never had a government so batsh * t crazy as to dare to contradict us — the one industry whose money has kept the illusion of prosperity going, year in, year out, for decades.

Becoming the best version of yourself possible, as an introverted Gen. McChrystal learned, is far more important to your leadership success than perpetuating old illusions.

And more concerning, liquidity has proven to not be resilient, as seemingly ample liquidity has been an illusion during times of stress, exacerbating market moves and contributing to volatility.

But its most fervent proponents are so desperate to maintain the illusion that they represent an oppressed majority (as if that makes any sense) that they've created copious fake accounts to artificially inflate the size of the movement, and even designed a cartoon female mascot named Vivian James to advance the idea that #notallwomen care about female representation in games.

But as the student survivors have chosen to voice their support for gun control and criticize Trump's lack of action, he's apparently now feeling the pressure to at least give the illusion that he takes the situation seriously.

One possibility, he said, is that frequent traders laboring under the «illusion of control» believe that they can respond easily to information and events during the day but can't do so as easily after hours, when there are far fewer market participants and less money, or «liquidity,» involved in trading.

He provided the illusion of competence in his orchestration of global monetary policy collusion — so long as no one looked behind the curtain.»

Some retirees, too, show signs of inflation «illusion», in that they believe their living standards are now being squeezed as interest rates come down.

«In the United States, there is the illusion that we can do without world markets, and indeed we export less as a percentage of GDP than you do,» points out Christopher Sands, a professor and director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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.

As home of Harry Houdini, Appleton has since become host to all things magic and illusion, including the annual Houdini Days Magic Festival.

As a stock trader, it is important not to suffer from the illusion that trading profits can be squeezed out of every market.

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

The quickly - cut violence of the battle creates the illusion of a cast of thousands and the impression of war as an ugly, undifferentiated slaughterhouse.

Just as their illusion that the world was flat did not change the reality the earth was not flat your inability to see the reality of God does not change the reality of God.

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.

What Satan offers is the illusion of freedom, presented as lack of consequences, which leads to enslavement.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

«The Delphic command «Know thyself» meant, «Know that you are a man and no god,»» an insight that «stands as a warning before all illusions of mastery and domination.»

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.

While recognizing the need for democratic participation in public affairs, they were under no illusions that they were creating an unqualified democracy and had no difficulty retaining nondemocratic institutions as integral components of the larger political framework.

What it does do is prevent the illusion that the legal regime in New York shares the same view of marriage as Christianity ’s

He might well have pointed more sharply to his own wily juxtaposition of signs in the novel, that of the movie's illusion of reality and the moment's encounter of the black man on the church steps, the sign of the cross smudged on his forehead with the ashes of the inescapable exile in the wandering season of Lent that is man's lot as homo viator.

I absolutely can not accept that a god would be so deceptive as to create this illusion for the sole purpose of «inspiring faith.»

As Confucius said... «Better to remain silent and give illusion of stupidity than open mouth and remove all doubt.»

Face it, if god exists as the Christians, Muslims and Jews perceive him, then everything is determined and there is no free will, just the illusion of it because god keeps hiding.

So we see the paradox of cyberspace, which enhances the illusion of images as reality because we can move and change the images and thus are deluded into thinking we are effective in the real world (Phelan 1984, 1988).

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.»

As a preacher who shakes hands, I believe worship leaders have a quite different job: to expose illusions at every turn, including the illusion that they are something more than fellow players in the drama of worship.

It reminds me that as we move closer to Christ we move farther away from the illusions and attachments of self and the world.

It accepts selfishness as a fact of life; it doesn't require any illusions about the innate goodness of people.

Already I have accustomed myself to recognize beneath the inertness of the morsel of bread a consuming power which, as the greatest Doctors of your Church have said, far from being absorbed into me, absorbs me into itself Help me now to overcome that remaining illusion which would make me think of you as touching me only in a limited and momentary way.

Nor need we dismiss as empty illusion the hopes of men of other religions who have trusted in God, or the gods, to renew, after death, a relation of grace and communion with their servants.

«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.