Sentences with phrase «illusory way»

The depiction of Baldock's hand - crafted and very tactile soft sculptures playfully question the physicality of the virtual in an illusory way.

The reality of death is not denied in an illusory way.

Not exact matches

In a retail world full of illusory market - share gains based on which retailer offered the lowest clearance prices, it felt like a welcome way to stop the madness.

It is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable.

Yet he was also aware, in a way that many post-moderns are not, that no one can completely break with the past; any claim that one has done so is illusory.

No one could think that unless he first believed that the whole realm of spiritual truths and values is illusory, so that it makes no difference one way or another what anyone thinks about it.

Insisting on the imaginative factor in the projection of sense — objects in no way implies that they are illusory — a consideration that everyday life gainsays, since often fatal material consequences ensue from representing things wrongly.

In the religiosity of Hellenistic culture there was a world - denying, gnostic kind of piety that scholars equate with the so - called «divine man» that was in its own way just as illusory and immature as the nationalist warrior piety of Palestinian Judaism.

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.

The type of theory which Whitehead now begins to develop attempts to lead the way out of this situation of stagnation and illusory progress.

Exploring the world at 18 years of age, he mounted a bicycle in Atlanta and rode it all the way to Halifax, his supposed but ultimately illusory Shangri - La.

In other words, much (though by no means all) of the «structure» provided by credentialing program standards is illusory; the requirements are sufficiently vague that schools can demonstrate their compliance in virtually countless ways.

On one side I see smart, well - intentioned people continuing to discuss school reform strategies via the illusory lens of achievement, and refusing to acknowledge the ways in which that word has come less and less to reflect any fully conceptualized reflection of the real thing we seek — learning.

What I want to focus on is another illusory belief among some authors — and most of these are self publishers — that eBooks is the exclusive way to forge ahead in publishing.

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!»

Picking the protagonist's haircut and picking our way along some (mostly illusory) forking plots are as far as RPG video games go in offering players control.

you can bring in illusory heroes of those characters in the same way.

In this painting, the forms stay on the surface without giving way to any particular illusory effect, while holding their place in a bifurcated relationship to one another.

The way light rakes across the monochrome folds of their shallow relief implies an illusory space, but also reads like an opaque plaster cast of a window.

I allow the paint to bleed, smudge, peel back at times, which disrupts the illusory or pictorial space, emphasizing the materials and surface instead... the way in which I construct illusions of depth and space, where certain patterns seem to float in front of others, screens of lines that you are looking through, into another internal space.

The artist complicates this in an extraordinary way by making these crude models from aluminum foil using reflected color, the result being an illusory and refracted space that becomes solidified through the process of painting.

First, as I mentioned briefly, while everyone at this workshop and many others were working on ways to reduce, manage and understand uncertainty, there is also a large and (at least until recently) very well - funded group working, to create and disseminate uncertainty, ignorance and confusion, with sufficient success that much of the political right in Australia and nearly all in the US have been (with their own complicity) deluded into thinking the problem is illusory.