Sentences with phrase «illusory ideas»

Pro bono work allows a person to be on tap, not on top, and provides a fulfilling contrast to the illusory ideas of success many lawyers find themselves surrounding in.

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.

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At best such references evade the issue and give Hartshorne's doctrine of actuality an illusory air of plausibility; at worst they implicitly trade on ideas foreign to Hartshorne's own premises.

Buddhist ideas of no - self seem to resonate with what some modern philosophers are saying about the self — that it's illusory.

In some of these constructs I reconfigure specific systems and forms using disparate materials and modalities in an attempt to establish a tenuous stasis between opposing ideas, the coalescent and the repellant, the concrete and the illusory, the personal and the social.

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.

Here, though, we have an illusory scenario, for despite the bright, self - explanatory air of Pulitzer's drawings, and the urgency of their subject matter, there is little cross-pollination of ideas.

One of the ideas shaping these landscapes is that the world perceived by the senses is entirely illusory.

By utilizing negative space and alternating between a sense of representing a discrete object or a cutaway section of the ground, he re-examines formal ideas of figure and ground relationships and the image shifts between flat areas of modern colour and illusory depth.

The belief that, by cutting ourselves off from the inherited ideas of our cultures, we can «clean the slate» and make a fresh start, is as illusory as the hope for a comprehensive system of theory that is capable of giving us timeless certainty and coherence....

The idea, however, that increasing shareholders» control over this aspect of the relationship between their company and its senior employees will serve some wider social good is illusory, notwithstanding politicians» declarations to the contrary.