Sentences with phrase «making illusory»

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. 17).

The boundary between sculpture and ground, between gravity and verticality, was made illusory.

Children love and trust both parents; this is what makes the illusory truth irrevocably damaging.

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Best Quote: «Today, cognitive neuroscience is proving that humans make decisions irrationally, perception is illusory, and our minds are designed for self - deception.

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.

«Temporary cease - fires have proved to be mostly illusory because Russia has no intention of pressuring Assad to make concessions.»

He will do it by the most ridiculous, empty, and illusory miracle, by a noise, a wind, an echo, by an illusion which makes a victorious army flee.

As one realizes what reality is, and sees the frantic and futile efforts people make to control it for the supposed interests of an illusory self, one is filled with compassion.

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.

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.

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.»

Again, this makes any concept of chance, or indeed freedom, purely illusory.

Those wandering jobless who do make it to states with GR find that their hopes for a bit of security are illusory.

The other, since he evades purification and lives with illusory pleasures, making the illness difficult to cure, is estranged from the natural, lives a life contrary to nature and becomes a nonparticipant in this natural life which is communion with God.

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.

We are forced to make up our minds whether we will accept their testimony or reject it as illusory.

«In the indeterminate and apparent freedom of an existence in which everything was possible but nothing made sense, he was enslaved by an illusory image of freedom: banished from his true self and unfree in an utter lack of relationship that was founded on being distanced from his own self, on separation from the truth of his own self.»

For many North Fork residents, this winter's proliferation of snow, ice and slush has made summer feel like a far - off, even illusory prospect.

The Second Mother also eases the tone to make its events less caustic and bruising to those involved, meaning the film's initial, impending sense of dread is eventually discarded in favor of peppier resolutions, even though its economic concerns haven't been so much resolved as temporarily brushed aside to provide an illusory, optimistic capper.

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.

Results from the General Certificate of Secondary Education exam that students take at age 16 show improvement each year, but there is a general recognition that grade inflation makes the progress illusory.

«Illusory claims that the EBacc threatens the arts will not make us row back on this aim.»

The roofline provides an illusory effect that makes it seem to rise towards the trunk lid, where a spot on and sporty spoiler along with oversized taillights accentuate the rear.

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!»

Make fake decisions that reveal the illusory nature of choice!

Tweaking a couple of settings today seemed to make my old saved game run faster, but this could have been illusory as I didn't run it for very long.

By making something fake or synthetic feel even less convincing, I aim to create a more «authentic» rendering of the illusory nature we experience.

Reed's entire oeuvre makes it clear that he places the painted image in a structural «in between»: Thus painting becomes, in the artist's cosmos, a normal and real part of our lives as well as a completely artificial and illusory staging.

Sascha Braunig makes spooky, neo-Surrealistic portraits of imaginary people from illusory tubular elements and geometric patterns.

David Richard Contemporary is pleased to present Elusive Transparencies, a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Julian Stanczak focused exclusively on his illusory «see - through» abstractions, which have been at the core of his art - making practice for the past five decades.

Authenticity is rendered illusory here: by choosing this particular ready - made book page, Higgs reconfigures Smith's existing text works that begin «I believe in...».

«I think I am a painter who is a sculptor... For me the two things have somehow come together, so that I am making physical things that are all about somewhere else, about illusory space.»

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.

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.

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.

Krištof Kintera's sixteen - foot - tall sculpture of Saint Christopher made with 350 lamps at D+T Project was not to be missed, as well as Levi van Veluw's illusory, optical installation of tumbling spheres at Ron Mandos.

Julian Stanczak is best known for his illusory «see - through» abstractions and «grid» paintings, which have been at the core of his art - making practice for the past five decades.

After his segue through figurative abstraction in the 80s and 90s, Fleming made a return to geometric abstraction in the 2000's with an emphasis on illusory compositions and visual perception.

Much is made in the book of DeLap's longstanding interest in magic, and indeed, there is an illusory quality to his three - dimensional work that does not always translate well to page, though the book's many sumptuous photographs make an admirable attempt.

Using the walls and ceiling as a ground, his installations make solid and physically imposing architecture appear immaterial and illusory.

Yet these same chromatic stains and opposing fabrics push you back to make sense of the illusory depth and the ambiguous but evocative compositions.

Wound together, the pictures I make float in and out of illusory space while simultaneously denoting flatness of their plane materiality.

playing amateur sociologist of knowledge, I think some of this denial of the global comes from their general philosophical commitment to free markets, assumptions which tend to view only the individual as real, making larger institutions or «systems» metaphysical (an illusory abstraction).

A third possibility is that reallocation of potential energy somehow makes the dQ illusory, although I don't immediately see how this could be so.

The belief that, by cutting ourselves off from the inherited ideas of our cultures, we can «clean the slate» and make a fresh start, is as illusory as the hope for a comprehensive system of theory that is capable of giving us timeless certainty and coherence....

For pragmatic environmentalists Riley's Paradox describes a fundamental concern relative to climate change policy: Economic damage from man - made «climate change» is illusory whereas damage from man - made «policies» to fight the said change is real.

«The suggestion that spousal support is a standalone issue will usually be illusory where children are involved, and no determination has been made as to the division of parenting time and responsibilities.»

But if that explanation is the right one, it makes the right to move freely illusory for EU - citizens who are diplomats and are travelling in that capacity.

Most lawyers and other professionals I know like to think ourselves largely above the shallow allure of «branding»; smart enough to ignore the huckster - ish entreaties of marketers, and to make decisions about what goods and services to purchase, use, and invest in based on purely objective factors such as quality, product design, and value rather than illusory distinctions like brand names.

Efforts to reform the most egregious failings appear to be mostly illusory: ministers retain final decision - making authority over appointments, vacancies are rarely advertised, qualifications are so broadly worded as to permit virtually anyone to qualify and governments generally structure the appointments system such that they have the discretion to appoint from a pool of qualified candidates (some of whom will inevitably have the requisite partisan credentials) rather than being forced to appoint the most qualified candidate.