Sentences with phrase «proved illusory»

However, those 18 miles proved illusory, as after only 7 actual miles I had burned up 14 miles of potential range.

With little scholarship on Argento that's current and / or comprehensive, and with the director himself seldom asked about his steep decline, what's left is this notion that Argento wanted to escape the Hitchcock - derivative label (only to return to it after the spark had fled or, more likely, proved illusory all along), or that he wanted a psychic divorce from De Palma, whose career Argento's paralleled for a while in theme and execution.

Even on a night when Hillary Clinton was at the top of the ticket, aspiring to be the first woman president, and Sen. Chuck Schumer flirted with the record books as he rocketed to a fourth term, New York Democrats» hope of reshaping their congressional delegation proved illusory.

I suppose that is why the ordination of women is finally, for me, an, inadequate expression of the essence of feminine theology, just as obtaining the vote in patriarchal societies proved illusory in terms of granting women civil liberties at the beginning of the century.

Where common values and common religious beliefs have been banished and the natural harmony of interests has proven illusory, only naked interest is left and a society where there are great disparities of wealth and power.

They are contemptuous in anticipation of a victory that could yet prove illusory.

«We conclude that the slowdown of warming is likely to prove illusory, with more rapid warming appearing over the next few years.»

We conclude that the slowdown of warming is likely to prove illusory, with more rapid warming appearing over the next few years.»

But on inspection the feared large economic costs of moving to a low - carbon economy prove illusory.

This statement proves illusory because those models are indeed decoupled from the fundamental physical principles defined at the microscopic scale by a hiatus, the meteorological processes at the small and medium scales [or synoptic processes] which are not described in their physical reality.

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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.

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

For example, the Protestant doctrine that we are all sinners is reflected in the Freudian - Marxist behaviorist - positivist claptrap claiming that there is no virtue, that all our actions arise from dark psychic urges, exploitative class greed or biological impulses — which supposedly proves that talk about good and evil, right and wrong, and certainly saintliness is illusory.

Although the canals later proved to be illusory and the seasonal changes geologic rather than biological, scientific and public interest in the possibility of Martian life and in exploration of the planet has not faded.

The perception that Kenya would widen and deepen its democratic practices after the retirement of long serving President Daniel Arap Moi in 2002 proved to be illusory.

The percent of the lucky minority achieving excess returns tends to diminish with time — as excessive fees and taxes cumulatively eat away at illusory excess returns — proving the foolishness of active strategies.