Sentences with phrase «offered by illusion»

Rhode adopts the role of trickster enamored with the fragmentary transcendence offered by illusion; such sleights of hand are linked to the artist's deeply personal meditation on the slippery struggle for social justice within his native country.

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They're particularly intrigued by the way stage magicians toy with our expectations and assumptions, or offer «the illusion of choice.»

The Trivialization of God: The Dangerous Illusion of a Manageable Deity By Donald W. McCullough NavPress, 172 pages, $ 16 The president of San Francisco Theological Seminary offers a sprightly and at times disturbing critique of the many ways in which we try to domesticate God» fitting Him into our emotions, concepts, or social» political proclivities.

M. Scott Peck has written that for psychological and spiritual health, we must be dedicated to reality, and he offers a helpful image: «The less clearly we see the reality of the world — the more our minds are befuddled by falsehood, misperceptions, and illusions — the less able we will be to determine correct courses of action and make wise decisions.

Human beings were so charmed by the illusion of control Newton's metaphor offered that we began to see ourselves as machines too.

They have no wish to be gagged by a ministerial position and hold no illusions about being offered one.

The offerings, and the male himself, appear larger than life because of an effect that visual scientists call the Ebbinghaus illusion, which causes an object to look bigger if it is surrounded by smaller objects.

Art offers one of the principal means by which a people becomes aware of itself, its failings, its illusions, its collective dilemma, its hidden reserves of strength.

Most games only offer you the illusion of choice (yes Bioware, I'm looking at ME3 and Dragon Age 2) I've been let down by a lot of big game series and it has become rather rare that game studios are willing to take risks.

The chronological clothesline offers him only the illusion of narrative, and he's left with scenes of varying quality, and with lines such as «No good deed goes unpunished,» which predates Clare Boothe Luce's coinage by about a century.

Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine pivots on several paradoxes: of acting, which involves self - expression via self - effacement; of media, which parasitically feeds on people, offering audiences catharsis while enslaving them with feelings of inferiority; and of the relationship between fiction and nonfiction, which is characterized by an illusion of distinguishability that affirms the greater illusion of the existence of objectivity.

Illusion Boutique Hotel by Xperience Hotels - Adults Only puts you within a 15 - minute drive of El Camaleon Golf Club and offers an airport shuttle (available on request) for MXN 2208 per person.

anixe will give Illusions access to technology that maps the same hotel product across different sources to a room type level, refining searches to show the best deals by room category, which no other system can offer.

Lights and shadows extend these configurations by offering visual effects so that the highly fragile works resemble optical illusions of falling perspectives.

His work eschews representation, narrative, illusion, and conventional understandings of realism, instead exploring the material and compositional qualities offered by his media.

Olitski's «Thigh Smoke» (167 inches high by 92 inches wide) offers the illusion of no canvas.

A vast and vertiginous painting by Robert Mangold at Armand Bartos of New York offer the illusion that the wall is falling away — shaped canvas and elliptical calligraphy on a level that make it special in Mangold's oeuvre.