Sentences with phrase «even illusory»

Some of our earliest work (27) revealed that in highly stressful times, people often respond with enhanced, even illusory, optimism, a sense of personal control or mastery, and self - enhancement, mustering these coping resources to ward off the threats that stress may pose.

That work was a cautionary tale, suggesting athletics was a narrow, even illusory, path.

For many North Fork residents, this winter's proliferation of snow, ice and slush has made summer feel like a far - off, even illusory prospect.

Not exact matches

In exchange for largely illusory cuts to developed country farm - subsidies, developing countries were being asked to open their markets even further to the manufactured goods and services of developed countries.

With hope for the future, not in any illusory «progress of mankind onward and upward forever,» but in the confidence that the issues for time and eternity are in the hands of God, remarkable staying power is generated even in the midst of what appears to be social retrogression.

The fall is not a once and for all event, it is an eternal process, an eternal round of darkness and horror, even though that horror has assumed the illusory light of a fallen sun.

In order to answer such questions we must remember that the insight into the unreality of everything that exists — even the Buddhas, the beings who belong to them, and the Teaching are illusory — is not intended for everyone.

Now that this modern affirmation itself appears illusory, perhaps even a presumptuous myth, time seems unanchored, unstopped and undirected.

Our experience of chance and freedom might even, in this picture, be ascribed to the massively complicated and fundamentally non-deterministic interactions of the microscopic constituents of the universe and is then illusory.

He began to struggle for his OWN survival, at the expense of his neighbor, even if this survival could be only temporary (and therefore illusory), since «death reigned from Adam to Moses, even upon those who did not sin as Adam did» (Rom.

He gives the impression that society has become so abstract that even events and activities that we take as quite «normal» are simply another form of the illusory nature of our culture.

In truth, it can be argued that even Parmenides treated change and motion at least as «appearances,» as belonging at least to the illusory realm of phenomena and not as mere non-entities; otherwise the division of his poem into two parts — «The Way of Truth» and «The Way of Opinion» — would lose its meaning.

Even when the learner has most completely appropriated the condition, and most profoundly apprehended the Truth, he can not forget this Teacher, or let him vanish Socratically, although this is far more profound than illusory sentimentality or untimely pettiness of spirit.

In fact, I am of the opinion that democracy has become illusory in town with this small number deciding for many decades who even appears on the ballot.

Even on a night when Hillary Clinton was at the top of the ticket, aspiring to be the first woman president, and Sen. Chuck Schumer flirted with the record books as he rocketed to a fourth term, New York Democrats» hope of reshaping their congressional delegation proved illusory.

When the dust settles, time — whatever it may be — could turn out to be even stranger and more illusory than even Einstein could imagine.

To achieve this perception, the brain has to «hallucinate» an illusory frosted glass spreading, even in the area surrounding the central region of the cross.

But the experiments of Ramachandran (and very similar results from psychologist Lloyd Kaufman of New York University) showed that the mechanism was even more sophisticated than that; it could segment the image based on implied occlusion and «hallucinate» illusory contours that can serve as tokens for stereoscopic matching.

The Second Mother also eases the tone to make its events less caustic and bruising to those involved, meaning the film's initial, impending sense of dread is eventually discarded in favor of peppier resolutions, even though its economic concerns haven't been so much resolved as temporarily brushed aside to provide an illusory, optimistic capper.

Keeping a few secret pen names, in utter darkness and not associated with me gives me a feeling of security, even if it's mostly illusory.

This means that frustrated job - seekers are simply falling off the BLS» radar and are not even looking for jobs — the decline in the unemployment rate is largely illusory.

Whatever the root cause, it kept alive the feeling that all this good fortune might just be illusory — maybe even somewhat undeserved... Today, that's been transformed into a slightly defiant resignation — «The party's over, we've been here before, we have to dig our way out of this hole, we'll make it out again in the end, all guns blazing!»

Tenacious exploration will lead you to useful items or perhaps even a secret path hidden behind an illusory wall.

By making something fake or synthetic feel even less convincing, I aim to create a more «authentic» rendering of the illusory nature we experience.

Cultural institutions devoted to national patrimonies are out of step with today's art world, which argues for global unity (even if that is illusory).

The boldest stroke is a calligraphic S in black, but even its opacity is illusory — the whites and reds behind the black can be read right through it.

Take a good painting of a landscape for example and that painting does not rely on its physical size to deliver its content as much as its illusory relationship, through rendering, suggestion or even evocation, to a known — external — reality.

But giving even greater illusory depth, there are also 200 bars of different colors set at a slant to, and intersecting with, the vertical ones.

Rather than an illusory plane, it in such instances is the even more tenuous infinity of space surrounding each of these thin lines.

The right to a speedy trial became even more illusory than in the pre-Askov days.

Finally, I read Verna's final comment as implying that even free - to - use claims and the cost savings that follow may be illusory, or at least much lower if, as she assumes:

Because of the illusory truth effect, even if your child knows a fact to be true or not true, in hearing the fact over and over again they begin to see the untrue fact as the truth.