Sentences with word «illusory»

It is arguable that, despite the government intending to proceed with completing reform of the House of Lords, comprehensive long - term reform appears as illusory as ever.

Special effects and montage have, in some ways, always been linked, going back to the simple edits that produced illusory effects in the films of Georges Méliès.

Wound together, the pictures I make float in and out of illusory space while simultaneously denoting flatness of their plane materiality.

«It is as though he [Joan Miro] had decided to condense all that he loves most — women, the night, stars, birds, dewdrops at dawn, into small paintings, while emphasizing the precarious illusory nature of our existence.»

We humans appear to have an artificial, inflated view of ourselves due to commonly held beliefs in illusory cultural transmissions about the placement of humanity in the natural order of all living things.

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Alfonse here is suffering from the «Dunning — Kruger» effect which is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.

Lynch's preoccupation with other worldly character or places that represent humanity's darkest nature is this time reserved for Hollywood, the greatest illusory world of all that destroys far more souls than it makes dreams.

The Flat Side of the Knife combines physical spaces with illusory spaces that appear only in mirrors, reflecting what the artist refers to as «layers of consciousness,» akin to psychological and hallucinatory spaces in the mind.

Inspired by Louis Kahn's uncamouflaged use of cement, Ferguson uses sculptural materials, including metal, pigmented plaster and ink on MDF panels, as a means of creating illusory space and preserving a series of incidents and compositional actions.

Andy Coolquitt includes three new sculptures for Illusions Lounge, which are exemplary of illusory depth as well as subtleties of color, shadow, and light.

Such illusory perceptions evaporated when participants were first denied control but then given an opportunity to write about their most deeply held values, an activity that bolsters psychological security and quells feelings of helplessness.

Other Parent Power groups think of Parent Trigger laws in a different way, looking at the laws as direct democracy and localizing education decision - making; in short, a real family control over education that isn't illusory like the local control that traditionalists and some movement conservatives defend.

However, once painted, these moments from Liston's life — due in part to their modest scale and a pervasive illusory quality — become surreal vignettes, yet -LSB-.....]

Our fixation on illusory threats at the expense of real ones influences more than just our personal lifestyle choices.

The apparent earnings yield in stocks is largely illusory for that reason.

For Indian man, sense experience was the most superficial and illusory aspect of the soul's life, whereas it constituted the very selfhood of man in Homer's world.

I suppose that is why the ordination of women is finally, for me, an, inadequate expression of the essence of feminine theology, just as obtaining the vote in patriarchal societies proved illusory in terms of granting women civil liberties at the beginning of the century.

When working on paper, or directly on the surfaces of existing architectural spaces, I frequently plot precise perspective points to demarcate volumes or plunge viewers into illusory realms.

They should also be nervous about the effects of conscripted federalism, beware the often illusory promise of public accountability, understand that Washington is hard - pressed to «fix» schools or colleges, and remember that «modest» expansions of the federal role rarely stay that way.

«Our results suggest that gamblers are more willing to bet impulsively on perceived illusory patterns,» says Gaissmaier.

But on the whole, the realities of a single member constituency, first past the post, electoral system has seen the two sides abjure illusory happiness in the arms of another, and stick together for the sake of the kids.

Worse still, it seems that up to 80 per cent of Americans have a completely illusory view of their ability to understand science.

With his new solo show, «Time Machine» at Jason Vass, Mark Dutcher seeks to convey through his paintings various subjective and illusory experiences, starting with...

Appearance becomes illusory only to the extent that the final integration achieves completion by the inhibitory exclusion of some elements of reality.

Ambushes, traps, NPC invasions and illusory walls feel like ham - fisted ways of killing you a few times before making it to the next bonfire.

Richter's illusory paintings find themselves on the walls of the world's most revered museums — for instance, London's Tate Modern displays the Cage (1)--(6), 2006 paintings that were named after experimental composer John Cage and that inspired the balletic «Rambert Event» hosted by Phillips Berkeley Square in 2016.

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«Temporary cease - fires have proved to be mostly illusory because Russia has no intention of pressuring Assad to make concessions.»

«The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly - and not just in accordance with immediate, partial, often superficial, and even illusory standards and measures of his being - he must with his unrest, uncertainty and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

He creates illusory images and disconcerting effects that challenge the viewer's perception.

Psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, has developed a series of images called Rotating Snakes, which are particularly effective at producing illusory motion.

Is the «prestige» of a traditional publisher's imprint mostly illusory in the context of the new world of publishing?

Long fascinated by the resilience of pop icon shapes, Plummer - Fernandez expands on his ideas about illusory images, material, and copyright to generate a new version of familiar faces.

Conversion is the relinquishing of illusory power: seeing that you are a child (with limited understanding) and listening, in your weakness, to what the father has to say.

Full stops also feature in a vast window installation spanning the full length of the gallery, making illusory sculptural interventions, or Buoys, on the seascape beyond.

It is deeper than it is wide, and has an arching ceiling where illusory clouds float and stars twinkle.

He will have to confess the bonds he shared with her parents, the passion with which they all embraced the Khmer Rouge's illusory promise of a democratic society, and the truth about her father's end.

In the 1960s Anuszkiewicz, along with artists Bridget Riley in England and Victor Vasarey in France, pioneered the Op Art movement which is based around artworks that create the illusion of spatial motion through illusory optical effects.

In popular culture the term has been used to describe any fictional being composed by different parts as well as to describe illusory ideas and actions.

Her new majority will provide an opportunity for her government pursue its fever dream of enormous liquid natural gas revenues that will miraculously banish all debt and deficit from the province, a dream that is more than likely to turn into a nightmare of environmental damage and business losses well before the longed for and probably illusory No More Debt Day arrives.

His work consists primarily of topographic lines, painted in an almost illusory way to provide depth and invi