Sentences with phrase «in illusory»

This results in an illusory view of renewables, which these two articles address.

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.

Daily routines, lovers, anxieties, personal and public histories cast a nebulous galaxy of characters and situations in an illusory, dreamlike presence.

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

In this illusory installation, the rational and the fanciful unite.

His works are reminiscent of Op Art in their illusory quality and Russian Constructivism in their utopian ideals.

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

«Both for their own safety and to be acceptable to society, companion dogs need to be kept under control, but that can be achieved by reward - based training, without reference to their position in some illusory «hierarchy».»

You need to go to God and seriously beg for forgiveness and a more loving heart before your wither up in your illusory beliefs.

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

Where such a reality (as spelt out in 1) does not exist, either practically or experienced as such by those living in an illusory construction of the present («our inviolable shores» ideology) the talk of peace tends to take on impractical («brotherhood and sisterhood of all humankind») and essentialized («the global village») colours.

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.

Not exact matches

Advertisers without a roadmap for this uncharted terrain are quickly becoming lost in forests of inaccurate data they can't make sense of or dark caves of illusory tech that yield no light at the end of the tunnel.

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.

In exchange for largely illusory cuts to developed country farm - subsidies, developing countries were being asked to open their markets even further to the manufactured goods and services of developed countries.

«Import growth captures both the «true» part of productivity growth (since increased capital investment typically requires an expanding current account deficit) as well as the illusory part of productivity growth (resulting from the failure to account for foreign labor input in the productivity numbers).

Any business that pursues its ends at the expense of the society in which it operates will find its success to be illusory and ultimately temporary.

According to Charles Mackay, «New houses were built in every direction, and an illusory prosperity shone over the land, and so dazzled the eyes of the whole nation, that none could see the dark cloud on the horizon announcing the storm that was too rapidly approaching.»

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.

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.

We must admit that the condemnation ingredient in anger always involves an illusory self - perception.

For example, the Protestant doctrine that we are all sinners is reflected in the Freudian - Marxist behaviorist - positivist claptrap claiming that there is no virtue, that all our actions arise from dark psychic urges, exploitative class greed or biological impulses — which supposedly proves that talk about good and evil, right and wrong, and certainly saintliness is illusory.

Or, as the French Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain put it nearly a decade later, «There is nothing more illusory than to pose the problem of the person and the common good in terms of opposition,» for in reality, it is «in the nature of things that man, as part of society, should be ordained to the common good.»

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.

Earlier, Altizer was advocating a leap of faith to the sacred from illusory being; but now he says that the Kingdom of God «will never dawn in us if we refuse our existence in the here and now.»

But in an intemperate and immoral woman, self - esteem can never be more than a posture or an illusory construction that eventually crumbles and collapses into self - contempt; self - contempt which, if it does not find redemption, can lead to despair.

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.

In FDR, Ted Morgan observes that Roosevelt made his mistake, with Stalin at Yalta by assuming «that the their fellow is a good guy who will respond with decency if he is treated right» Simon & Schuster, 1985, p. 756) In this respect, Roosevelt was heir to the attitude of Woodrow Wilson, of whom Arthur Link writes: «His faith in the goodness and rationality of men... and in the inevitable triumph of righteousness sometimes caused him to make illusory appraisals of the situations at hand and to devise quixotic or unworkable solutions» (Wilson the Diplomatist [Quadrangle, 1963], p. 17In FDR, Ted Morgan observes that Roosevelt made his mistake, with Stalin at Yalta by assuming «that the their fellow is a good guy who will respond with decency if he is treated right» Simon & Schuster, 1985, p. 756) In this respect, Roosevelt was heir to the attitude of Woodrow Wilson, of whom Arthur Link writes: «His faith in the goodness and rationality of men... and in the inevitable triumph of righteousness sometimes caused him to make illusory appraisals of the situations at hand and to devise quixotic or unworkable solutions» (Wilson the Diplomatist [Quadrangle, 1963], p. 17In this respect, Roosevelt was heir to the attitude of Woodrow Wilson, of whom Arthur Link writes: «His faith in the goodness and rationality of men... and in the inevitable triumph of righteousness sometimes caused him to make illusory appraisals of the situations at hand and to devise quixotic or unworkable solutions» (Wilson the Diplomatist [Quadrangle, 1963], p. 17in the goodness and rationality of men... and in the inevitable triumph of righteousness sometimes caused him to make illusory appraisals of the situations at hand and to devise quixotic or unworkable solutions» (Wilson the Diplomatist [Quadrangle, 1963], p. 17in the inevitable triumph of righteousness sometimes caused him to make illusory appraisals of the situations at hand and to devise quixotic or unworkable solutions» (Wilson the Diplomatist [Quadrangle, 1963], p. 17).

Insofar as he is able to penetrate through the superficial and actually illusory levels of his existence, man finds himself to be in immediate touch with the holy.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

This is why he pursued not only the grandees of church history (Athanasius, Anselm, Luther) but also those harried, illusory, and sometimes downright weird participants in the community of faith.

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.

«In classical Indian thought,» so Callicott maintains, «all things are one because all things are phenomenal and ultimately illusory manifestations or expressions of Brahman.»

In the first place, our omnipotence is illusory, since we are totally dependent upon the earth.

Presumably it is the so - called illusory or lower wants that are to be frustrated (coerced) in order that the so - called «real,» «true,» «genuine,» or «higher» wants may be fulfilled.

To be sure, the illusory wants are wants in the sense that they do exist, but they are judged as not having measured up to whatever standard the speaker has in mind.

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.

A common illusory expectation is that one's partner will be a gratifying parent figure who will both continue the satisfactions one enjoyed in one's childhood family and also make up for what one felt one missed in that family.

The fascination with the demonic in modern literature, the tendency of many to turn psychoanalysis or «psychodrama» into a cult of self - realization, and the illusory belief that personal fulfillment can come through «release» of one's deep inward energies all show the peculiarly modern relevance of the «crisis of temptation and dishonesty» which Buber describes.

Theoretical equality of rights in a context of such grave economic inequality is illusory.

One of these is the desire to safeguard the student by demanding of the teacher an illusory objectivity, as if the teacher had no commitment to a certain field of knowledge, to a method of approaching this field, and to a set of attitudes and value assumptions which are embodied in the questions which he raises.

All immediacy, in spite of its illusory peace and tranquillity, is dread, and hence, quite consistently, it is dread of nothing; one can not make immediacy so anxious by the most horrifying description of the most dreadful something, as by a crafty, apparently casual half word about an unknown peril which is thrown out with the surely calculated aim of reflection; yea, one can put immediacy most in dread by slyly imputing to it knowledge of the matter referred to.

The immediate man (in so far as immediacy is to be found without any reflection) is merely soulishly determined, his self or he himself is a something included along with «the other» in the compass of the temporal and the worldly, and it has only an illusory appearance of possessing in it something eternal.

In fact, it judges such «illusory» thinking as a symptom of weakness which the stout of heart will shun.

A driven lifestyle stemming from this illusory hope reaches a point of diminished or negative returns in the mid-years.

In order to answer such questions we must remember that the insight into the unreality of everything that exists — even the Buddhas, the beings who belong to them, and the Teaching are illusory — is not intended for everyone.

John Paul II wrote in the apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici: «The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is notdefended with maximum determination.»

For the man of twofold vision nothing could be more illusory than the goal of success, nothing more false than money, and a long line of Protestant preachers in the 19th century continued to say so, though, by the end of the century some of their voices began to quaver.

«Providence» suggests that our affairs are in reality guided by something above or greater than human reason, while «fortuity» implies that the controlling agent is something beneath or less than reason; but either view renders illusory the notion that we are controlling our own affairs through the exercise of our own reason.

Our experience of chance and freedom might even, in this picture, be ascribed to the massively complicated and fundamentally non-deterministic interactions of the microscopic constituents of the universe and is then illusory.