Sentences with phrase «often illusory»

The benefits claimed for data sharing are often illusory.

That «precision» is often illusory for two reasons: (a) ambiguity routinely lurks within traditional, legalistic language; and (b) when words proliferate, ambiguities tend to as well.

As an A-List member you don't get all the perks of the legacy carriers — which are often illusory anyway — but you do get additional miles, drink coupons mailed to you, treated well like everyone else, and the companion pass status is fantastic.

Lest we forget the cautionary words of J.R.R. Tolkien, All that is gold does not glitter, it is worth considering the often illusory and provisional qualities of gold.

If you can adjust to the film's uneven rhythms and often illusory vibe, there's a treasure trove of off - kilter humor, affecting pathos and first - class acting to be savored.

Not exact matches

Insisting on the imaginative factor in the projection of sense — objects in no way implies that they are illusory — a consideration that everyday life gainsays, since often fatal material consequences ensue from representing things wrongly.

Unable to fit these elusive expressions into an objectifying, scientific understanding of the world, we often dismiss them as illusory.

An Internet - based relationship can often be fleeting and illusory.

Harry Crews» novels might sometimes be hard to read because they're filled with violence, blood sport and grotesque characters, but they shout out, «Pick me up and read me,» for they drive us to confront our often grotesque sense of self, the lies we tell ourselves to protect ourselves from harsh truths and the destruction of our society and the world around us under the banner of illusory values.

It is up to us in the humane movement to demand them of our local shelters, and no longer to settle for the illusory excuses and smokescreens that shelters often put up in order to avoid implementing them.

Often portraying illusory situations at twilight, Müller - Franken heightens the drama of his compositions by creating transitional moments that merely allude to what has or what will transpire.

As the press release states, the work seeks to «invite the beholder to enter into a corporeal relationship with [the paintings], to push off from them, to plunge into them, and so to explore the often enigmatic - seeming illusory space that painterly means have created.»

More often than not, however, such pledges have been illusory — and many investors have lost their principal to boot.

Some of our earliest work (27) revealed that in highly stressful times, people often respond with enhanced, even illusory, optimism, a sense of personal control or mastery, and self - enhancement, mustering these coping resources to ward off the threats that stress may pose.