Sentences with phrase «known as illusion»

2K Games» Prague studio was formerly known as Illusion Softworks and developed Mafia 2.

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But it wasn't actually a hologram — it was really an optical illusion known as Pepper's ghost.

Just as modernity created the «middle ages,» which we all then knew could be safely left behind, «postmodern» is far too comforting since it gives the illusion that we know where we are — in contradiction to the postmodernist's epistemological doubt that such knowledge is available.

«The Delphic command «Know thyself» meant, «Know that you are a man and no god,»» an insight that «stands as a warning before all illusions of mastery and domination.»

The illusion that the now is either so insignificant and commonplace as to be unworthy of study, or that it is so well known anyhow — without analysis, critical reflection, or even systematic observation — as to be beneath serious notice, has become all too characteristic of a theological tradition that knows perfectly well that we can not understand either God's grace or man's sinfulness without in some fundamental sense understanding the other first.

It has a concern for her well - being at least as much as, perhaps more than, for my own, a desire to break through my own images and idealizations of the girl, my illusions about her, and at all costs to know her as she really is.

No, despair verily is not something which appears only in the young, something out of which one grows as a matter of course — «as one grows out of illusion.»

With God reduced to a shadow of the human other, and no longer seen as the source of compensating heavenly rewards, the ultimate religious and ethical imperative of pure sacrifice is therefore fulfilled within a secular and symbolically drained sphere, harboring no illusions.

Just as the time - process is a reality and not an illusion, just as historicity (Geschichtlichkeit), (We still do not know how far the idea of historicity, when rightly understood, is part of our common involvement in history.

The early Christians did not believe in an eternal timelessness or that time as we know it is an illusion.

And as long as illusion is the name of the game, pray you don't become prey to the preyers, for they follow you with their hands out knowing if they invoke the name of your imaginary friend they can profit.

Despite calling the idea that we can know what the Founders really thought on religious issues «an illusion,» Kramnick and Moore criticize those who view the U.S. as a Christian state: «The principal framers of the American political system wanted no religious parties in national politics.

-- The Illusion Of Wealth Within Football» uses a very different methodology to most analysis of football accounts by applying a concept known as economic profit.

Wonderful article and I hope that more young mothers will try to follow your example... as long as children are aware that there are consequences for every action, there is no need to be cruel or to hit the child... but you do have to be consistent because children don't even begin to have abstract thought (cause and effect) until they reach 13 or 14 and, even then, it's sketchy... I think the illusion that because a woman has a child that automatically makes her a good mother has been dangerous for our children... I know a woman who used to say, ``... if you don't have power when you're a mother, when do you get power?»

As I've said before — isn't it disturbing that your ideas of what makes a good public servant are so colored by your apparent affinity for Niccolo Machiavelli who is known for proposing that «a prince is praised for the illusion of being reliable in keeping his word.

«Borofice, no doubt, is alone in this illusion that critical mass of our party leadership and members are leaving which could best be described as a product of a demented brain informed by his desperate ambition to govern the state at all costs

Your «knowing» that it can not be so does not negate the illusion (just as some people cling to superstitions even while recognizing their absurdity).

Most people perceive the central circle to be smaller, an effect known as the Ebbinghaus illusion.

In his account of the optical illusion known as the beta phenomenon (23 February, p 34), Jan Westerhoff rules out...

This mysterious illusion is known as the McGurk effect.

One of the most famous such illusions is known as the McGurk Effect, named for its discoverer, Harry McGurk, a developmental psychologist at the University of Surrey in England.

Art and science often came together in the works of Dutch artist M.C. Escher, known for his prints and woodcuts of «impossible constructions,» such as the famous stairway illusion in «Relativity.»

As this illusion by Beau Lotto and Dale Purves of Duke University shows, if the lighting changes, it can be hard to know which color is which.

The cosmic optical illusion was due to the mass of a single galaxy within the cluster warping and magnifying the light from the distant stellar explosion in a process known as gravitational lensing [4].

For example, we've had the illusion known as Pepper's ghost since the 1800s.

The cluster's powerful gravity warps the images of background galaxies into blue streaks and arcs that give the illusion of being inside the cluster, an effect known as gravitational lensing.

Rather, its existence is merely propagated by an entity known only as SIE (in this context THEY or THEM, not the polite form of YOU), which has conspired with authorities to create the illusion of the city's existence.

It's all an illusion... thanks to the puffiness of the skirt, in comparison my waist looks small; P As a natural blond I don't know if I'll ever go back to my old hair colour now.

For brides who are short in stature and narrow at the waist — otherwise known as petite — wedding dresses that create the illusion of a long torso are ideal.

Traditionally, we know that plus - sized ladies should avoid wearing horizontal stripes, as such stripes give an illusion of bulk, but it appears to be a harsh mistake after all.

«Once You See It, You Can't Unsee It» is the slogan on the film's Tumblr page — one that features a never - ending stream of animated GIFs from the movie (as if the advertisers knew the film wasn't going to meme itself, so they created an illusion of online popularity).

As most of you know, the rights to distribute movies can change over time, and we lost ours for Grand Illusion about a dozen years ago.

Written without much in terms of legitimate explanation from the not - as - clever - as - you'd - think script by the team of Solomon (The In - Laws, Charlie's Angels), Yakin (Prince of Persia, The Rookie), and Ricourt, the amount of razzle - dazzle is high and the amount of expository information is at a minimum, explaining only a few minor illusions on the hope that we'll buy that there is a logical explanation for all of the other jaw - dropping moments we aren't in the know on.

The gunmetal surface of the water looked placid as a pond, but she knew that for an illusion.

In fact just like music there are now so many books, and they're coming out so fast, that they are simply a commodity, because in both areas the distributors can no longer act as gatekeepers creating the illusion of scarcity to drive up prices.

Sure, monetary policy — less politely known as printing money — has, and probably will, produce some (false) illusion of growth.

Then again, as some folks have highlighted recently, even austerity talk in Europe seems pretty much an illusion — did you know it apparently means to «generally increase government spending at a slightly slower pace `..!?

Under deal terms anixe's current base in Wroclaw, known as the «Silicon Valley» of Poland, will become Illusions» first office in Eastern Europe and its second on the continent.

On the spring equinox the impressive Temple of Kukulcan (more commonly known as El Castillo) in Chichen Itza plays host to a mysterious event as the sun's rays create the illusion of the serpent deity slithering across the step pyramid.

I don't know that I'd go as far as to call Mega Man Soccer an outright classic, and I'm a little nervous going back to play it might ruin the whole illusion, but damn, I played the heck out of that game.

as you can see I pre-ordered castle of illusions (by my mickey mouse avatar) and like the rest of you know it's coming next week along with other content, so if most know about these games already and there has been info posted about them on the blog already not listing them here is not a big deal is it.

Fighting off the enemy known as the Calamity, this extremely well written story will have anyone who enjoys in depth storytelling and a true sense of adventure and discovery not see since the days of Secret of Mana or Illusion of Gaia.

Her use of mirrors in conjunction with sculptural elements made from a silvery insulation board, known commercially as Rmax or Thermax, allows the illusion of space to expand in multiple directions; creating imaginary depth below the gallery floor, for instance, or suggesting adjacent rooms that do not actually exist.

Μade of sheets of glass, which are held to one another at angles and produce the illusion of - scrap, through their many levels of light diffusion that removes the concept of architectural environment, as we know it, since the wall, the shadows and the light create the sensation of swinging.

Although this particular painting is named after a girl that Stella knew, its composition demonstrates his desire to move away from any representational illusion as well as the emotional content found in works by the preceding generation of Abstract Expressionist painters.

In other words, viewers no longer focus on an object atop a pedestal placed within the open space of a room as they do in regarding conventional sculpture, but are directed to one wall and then across to the other, at first bemused by the illusion of the figures coming through the wall before realizing that they are seeing two halves of a whole.

The academically trained Zhao Bandi, although best known as «the Pandaman», here tilts realism — his canvas literally askew — to portray the spent illusion of a white - collar life.

Her textile designs are drawn from classic optical illusions and inspired by «African fabrics»; also known as Dutch wax prints and originating in the Indonesian batik - dye process.

Scagliola is a plaster effect traditionally used to create imitations of marble in grand buildings, one that Kenny knows well thanks to experience gained as a specialist decorator» creating such illusions.

known mostly as a minimalist painter who creates subtle, flat abstract work that explores space, light and the relationships between illusion and materiality.