Sentences with phrase «illusory world»

We have no need to enter a movie theater to escape into an illusory world; life itself is just like a movie.»

I work from the premise that the work of art exists in a «real», physical, rather than illusory world.»

Saints Row IV imagined a virtual illusory world where nothing mattered.

And now we're leaving the late»60s again & heading into the early»70s — and just as people discovered then, an illusory world of fixed rates, price controls & apparent economic / market stability can't fend off an eventual & inevitable reckoning with the painful underlying reality....

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.

Thus perfectionism is satisfied in the grandiose, illusory world of alcohol.

Not exact matches

Items from the modern cabinet of wonders, such as GPS and radar and mobile - phone technology and flight - tracker apps that let you follow planes from your pocket, hand us an illusory sense of control - a notion that we have, through gadgetry, rendered the world finite.

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.

This world of the moment, which is all we know, becomes the setting for an illusory extension into longer or shorter time scales which then seem to occupy a portion of an external time in a relation of the phenomenal to the absolute.

In a world from which freedom of competition, equality of opportunity, and social fraternity begin to disappear, political equality is illusory, and democracy becomes a dream.

Religion as belief in God is an opium of the people diverting man's energies from the needful tasks of this world to an illusory heaven above; it is a projection of man's inner insecurities, and consequently must be annihilated if man must be fully himself.

Moreover, I regard the Incarnation as a historical movement and process; it does not reveal the illusory opposition between God and the world, but rather effects an actual reconciliation between estranged and alienated opposites, between an alien and transcendent form of God that is estranged from the world and a fallen and broken form of the world that is estranged from God.

The evangelical subculture, Balmer argues, is just a «socially constructed reality,» one that is «illusory and incongruous with the larger world.»

The figure of Don Juan is an imaginative impossibility in our time because he comes from a period in which the human being was understood not merely as a biological machine, generated randomly out of the incessant flux of an aleatory universe, but as a radiant and terrible enigma, dangerously and daringly poised between beast and angel, hell and heaven, the elemental abyss and the infinite God: a period in which it was still just possible to believe that human freedom was not merely the all - but - illusory residue of a random confluence of mindless physical forces and organic mechanisms, but a glimpse of the transcendent within the world of matter.

In Hinduism, for example, the doctrine of Maya holds that the natural world is essentially illusory; true reality is beyond multiplicity and change.

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.

Confidence in the emergence of a new world culture to perform the function of supplying Protestants with the same kind of unity which they once derived from Western European culture is a vain and illusory hope.

Of this social world man can at best have but a partial and corrupted understanding and but a partial and ultimately illusory control.

They also see this theory as leading people to depreciate that actual events of the world viewing them as appearance and the appearance as illusory.

The sudden disappearance of the ego is what gives the sense of the unreality of the external world, but for Aurobindo this experience lasted only a short while, being replaced by more integral experiences of an «immense Divine Reality» behind, above, and within everything that had at first appeared to be illusory (OH 102).

In the perceptual mode of presentational immediacy this process leads to the experience of the objective world as illusory.

And if we are moved by the assumption that what is clear and distinct is also the most concretely real, we will be inclined to suspect the whole realm of symbolic discourse as illusory, as moving us away from rather than toward the real world, precisely because symbolic expression is so frustratingly nebulous.

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 addition, when exposed to such hoary doctrines of some classical Eastern religions and philosophies as that of the fundamental unreality or illusory character of the entire material world and that of the all - encompassing reality of God, the average Westerner can only respond with astonishment and incredulity.

Unable to fit these elusive expressions into an objectifying, scientific understanding of the world, we often dismiss them as illusory.

Yet man's instinctive belief that the outside world really possesses the qualities it arouses in him is so deep, that Whitehead is reluctant to regard this belief as wholly illusory.

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.

Twelve years ago, about a dozen research groups from around the world announced that they had evidence for a lighter pentaquark known as theta - plus, but more detailed studies showed that all of the claims were illusory.

The game's ticking clock can create an illusory sense of urgency, but in truth, I've got all the time in the world.

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

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro «who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world».

Harry Crews» novels might sometimes be hard to read because they're filled with violence, blood sport and grotesque characters, but they shout out, «Pick me up and read me,» for they drive us to confront our often grotesque sense of self, the lies we tell ourselves to protect ourselves from harsh truths and the destruction of our society and the world around us under the banner of illusory values.

In a press release on October 5, 2017, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius announced the selection of Ishiguro «who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.»

Ken Wong, lead designer and illusory art wizard of Monument Valley (2014), is creating a brand new world: not fantastic architecture this time, but three desks in Melbourne, Australia.

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.

Aesthetically, the presentation includes Valledor's early expressionist abstract paintings and signature reductive and minimalist compositions with an emphasis on his later hard edge and color - based abstractions from the 1970s and 80s that included illusory and optical constructs exploring space and creating a tension between the two - dimensional and three - dimensional worlds.

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).

Providing a harsh, crude vision of city life and the chaos of everyday existence, strange worlds, and unusual characters, his work occupies a unique space between the objective and the subjective, the illusory and the real.

Using visual references such as the code of the Matrix — which in the 1999 film signified an illusory dream world conjured up by an inhumane system — to promote a property project, seems paradoxical at least.

With a sustained interest in geographic and atmospheric phenomena, her practice seeks to examine the changing possibilities and conditions of perception and light, tracing the illusory spaces that can both imitate and invert the natural world.

From his early works in the 1990s, such as the «illusory» optical machine Beauty (1993), to the architectural project developed together with Henning Larsen Architects (Reykjavik Concert Hall, 2005 - 2011), to his recent «total artworks» like Seu corpo da obra (2011) and installations like Big Bang Fountain (2015), Eliasson always expresses his fascination with the world of perceptions, sometimes physical, sometimes immaterial — but always transforming passive visitors into «inhabitants», as well as with the hybridization of different languages, means of expression and temporal planes.

Indeed, for a number of years Tomaselli has embraced the natural world in radiant, highly decorative paintings that make almost no distinction between the illusory and the real, the figurative and the abstract.

«Not Really»: Fictive Narratives in Contemporary Art explores the «illusory, fabricated, and contrived nature of our mediated and digitalized contemporary world.»

What I'm trying to say is that the «triggers» (good word) of the space illusion are only going to work because they are associated with a particular type of spatial sensation in the real world, so that the illusory space that is evoked is actually tied to that particular spatial sensation, making the pictorial space at least in this sense figurative.

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

Telling quote «We all want to protect our planet, but we must stop trying to protect it from minor or illusory threats - and doing it on the backs, and the graves, of the world's most powerless and impoverished people.»

The security programs and partnerships at the heart of this case affect people in Canada, and around the world, whose data is intercepted without judicial scrutiny, and whose rights are rendered illusory in the process.»