Sentences with phrase «of a mirage of»

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It appears to me that despite the success of Indians, meritocracy in the tech industry may be a mirage.

In plain terms, should China's economic miracle turn out to be a mirage, all of that would be at risk.

Again, too much of it is a mirage.

Bitcoin's price is not a reflection of its growing usage as currency; it reflects merely demand for the mirage of its speculative value.

From a match turning into a sunrise to a man appearing out of a mirage to a spectacular train crash, you can thank «Lawrence of Arabia» for some of the most indelible images ever created on film.

Of all the temptations that contributed to the new economy's opulent mirage, few were as enticing as the initial public offering.

Every oasis seems to turn into a mirage, as investors rush into a class of high - yielding investments only to push the prices up — and the yields effectively down.

---------- Chris MacDonald: Your new book, The Authenticity Hoax, is about the way our pursuit of authenticity is in many ways the pursuit of a mirage, and you argue that the pursuit of it is ultimately not just futile, but destructive.

It is, after all, a land of flash and mirages.

Buffet has been recycling the lack of intrinsic value argument since 2014, when he first dismissed Bitcoin as «a mirage» on CNBC.

As many teams finish their tokens sale process, in front of them is a mirage — a promise of inexpensive, no - strings - attached capital, a quick and painless process, and a carefree (and VC - free) post-ICO life.

These lemmings saw the mirage of a predictably bland world which the Fed's abundance of liquidity had fabricated, and extrapolated it out into the future.

@ Concert: «I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»

Whatever rabbit Bernanke can still yank from his hat of monetary tricks is illusory — the best QE3 can achieve is the mirage of «wealth effects», the artificial high that is closer to momentary intoxication than to stable contentment.

It seems clear now that the evangelical wing of conservative Protestantism has been built on a theological mirage.

A strip of violet quivers in the haze — a near - mirage above the furrowed grays and blues of Vineyard Sound, an afterthought of windworn scrub the military bought and then abandoned.

Nor can we believe that the Word acts through a fleeting series of Gnostic mirages and masks.

You cake take their criticism, their malicious actions, their mirage of the perfect Christian.

Al - Noor sura 24: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are as a mirage in a desert.

Because you (with the veil of the separate person mirage dropped) IS Good!

synonyms: mirage, hallucination, apparition, figment of the imagination, trick of the light

I like this answer to who made God: «Ultimately, an entire new world might emerge «Out of the White Hole», and replace Big Bang with a mere mirage of a non-existent past!»

So, pining for those «moral» days of yore is like chasing a mirage.

But must not this event on Bultmann's own premises once more assume the character of a mirage instead of a fixed point on the landscape of history?

Imagine the power, serenity and spaciousness of someone who, because he is not driven by fear of death, is able to undergo an absolutely typical lynch death at human hands and to do so deliberately — and by doing so show that rather than death being definitive and powerful, it is no more than a frightening mirage.

The poem describes the alluring but accursed mirages of the goal of the mystic and the idealist.

It would only do so were we to understand human nature, in the manner of Rousseau, to be intrinsically good, with evil a mirage of unjust social life that will disappear with the transformation of corrupt institutions.

(William Lederer and Don Jackson, «How to Check Up Your Own Marriage,» in The Mirages of Marriage (New York: W. W. Norton, 1968), chap.

Fate Is the Hunter, a modest story of mirage in airline pilots, has long since been forgotten.

In no way questioning the just demands of women, I would suggest that the assumption that their success will make marriage better is a mirage.

Here is where heaven and hell shimmer in a mirage of possibility.

If the concept of miracle were to vanish, as a mirage, before the advance of science, what was to happen to Christian apologetics?

The Mirages of Marriage.

National Socialism especially, as the Hungarian Catholic philosopher Aurel Kolnai wrote in 1950, sought to negate «Christian civilization as such,» scripting a dark epiphany in which man «wrenched himself free from Christianity and construed the automatic workings of his fallen nature into a mirage of self «made heaven.»

The golf course was like a mirage outside his window, until one day, when he was 24, he heard of an opening at the club for a caddie master.

Is this real or some sort of mirage?

Billowing steamrises out of the timber south of the valley, cresting in the bitter air to forma dome of ice crystals that hovers mirage - like above the tallest trees.

There are no management types or event organizers to explain the mirage of one of America's bawdier football tropes, and when I ask one of the Hooters» girls, she declines to be quoted in what sounds like an Eastern European accent.

Tally them up and you'll have a good idea if the team is something of a mirage.

You buy because you need those players not because you are chasing a mirage of premium quality players.

Though, if reality enters that mirage it changes the discourse of the fans.

That's the guy you want to build your team around when he was supposed to get better this year and improve upon that mirage of a rookie season?

Portland's recent rise of success has been somewhat of a mirage as several games have been against teams with key players out due to injury.

Let me ask this question before I take my leave how long will it take Arsenal before they win d league, m not asking of Champions League because that will be like trying to catch ones shadow or even a mirage,

My only point of concern is that all this is a mirage.

-- but my above post was more about clinging to the mirage that was Tony Romo who delivered ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to the fan base except a bunch of misplaced hope tantalizing mid season flashes... and moving onward with the future — and hopefully a much much better outcome.

If he can improve the consistency of his performances (by which I mean from half to half, not just from game to game) then Serie A is by no means a mirage.

What I am trying to get out of this is, what Mata did was a mirage of what Gervinho could have done, or inter-change with Walcott on a more regular basis in order for Bosingwa and Cole to have a difficult time in man marking.

It's time for the secrecy to end and the mirage of perfection to die in a fire.

Anytime I get to be that «Hollywood» version of myself, it's like looking at a mirage lol.