Sentences with phrase «illusory power»

However, if digitization «democratized» fashion, it also diffused it, as it came face to face with the illusory power of the mass - market.

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.

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Each section of David and Goliath begins with a passage from Scripture attesting to the ennobling power of weakness or the illusory boon of strength.

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.

Where common values and common religious beliefs have been banished and the natural harmony of interests has proven illusory, only naked interest is left and a society where there are great disparities of wealth and power.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

As Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch phrased it, the influence Meng sought to peddle was «corrupt and his power illusory.»

But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.

Other times they feel an illusory sense of power over uncontrollable events.

The claims of Republican leadership that the bill will transfer power back to the states are largely illusory.

Perry is guided by music or speech, repetition, focalization and deceleration, revealing the strength of our personal investment in images of the illusory (youth, power, sex, taste, lifestyle) as well as the prescriptive nature of these desires.

Ningde has described these works as deliberately generating «an illusory feeling,» an insight into the hallucinatory power of photography as a whole.

Noting the «full trial has become largely illusory» and Combined Air sets the summary judgment bar «too high,» Hryniak instead emphasizes the powers to weigh evidence, evaluate credibility, and draw reasonable inferences at summary judgment are «presumptively» available to the motion judge.