Sentences with phrase «strongest illusion of»

It take an inverted narrative approach to the techniques commonly used in story - centric games that try to give players the strongest illusion of freedom possible.

Gamblers have a strong illusion of control and they believe in luck more than others when they gamble.

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The strong dollar illusion is sold to the masses because the dollar is never compared against the real money of gold but only to its weak siblings of the -LSB-...]

After all, his strong desire to live without illusions will, according to his own theory, have the effect of conjuring illusions — illusions of illusions, if you will — that provide him with something to debunk and unmask.

In essence, Petigny's argument is that these were all ephemeral developments, almost illusions, and the strongest evidence in support of his view is the rapidity with which these signs of social health evaporated...

The reason I addressed the problem to Hartshorne initially is that, from one end of his thought to the other, he has made strong claims in behalf of his use, presumably in contrast to that of some other speculative philosophers, of modern formal logic, and I wanted to assure myself that he was under no illusion concerning the status accorded formal logic by many logicians and the force of the attempts to have, in Ernest Nagel's expression, «logic without ontology.»

While Mourinho inherited a mismatch of players at United and would have been under no illusions about the challenge of the job, he will no doubt be keen to ensure his side are stronger contenders next season.

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They believe this illusion is strong enough to overcome the minor discrepancy of the position of your real hand signaled by your body's joint and muscle receptors versus the site of the plastic hand registered by your eyes.

The results indicate that our bodily self is much more flexible and plastic as it was previously assumed,» says Roman Liepelt, «because in our experiment a smartphone, which has absolutely no similarity to a human hand, produced an illusion similarly strong to that of an artificial hand.

Schwarzkopf suggests that this is because the circuits in the visual cortex responsible for the illusion are the same size in everyone, but cover a greater proportion of a smaller visual cortex, causing a stronger effect.

A second experiment confirmed that the illusion was stronger when the expectation of being touched was present than when it was absent (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2013.1140).

The volunteers were never touched, yet the results suggest that the illusion was strong when the appropriately oriented rubber hand was in front of them.

Making matters worse, Ramstad's team found that the little spot's strongest hope for an infusion of genetic diversity was an illusion.

As a consequence, both studies give an erroneous illusion of a strong association between sodium excretion and cardiovascular risk.

Ideal for beginners: Too many newbie weight lifters and fitness enthusiasts looking to gain lean muscle and build a strong physique are under the illusion that doing lots of different isolated exercises is going to help them build muscle.

The cut of the pea coat gives the illusion that the wearer is taller, and stronger than they really are.

You could say, I suppose, that eHarmony is simply very strong in marketing and sales — in creating the illusion of effectiveness.

As Michael Atkinson has written for Criterion, «Without its iconic precedent, there would have been no Humphrey Bogart, no John Garfield, no Robert Mitchum, no Randolph Scott, no Jean - Paul Belmondo (or Breathless or Pierrot le fou), no Jean - Pierre Melville or Alain Delon, no Steve McQueen...» Soon after Pépé, Renoir's antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion hit, and it was an even bigger smash, cementing Gabin's superstar status; in this and all of his most successful roles (La bête humaine, Le jour se lève), Gabin played some form of working - class social outcast, and he always provided audiences with a strong point of identification.

I was not about to let some publisher have them forever through the illusion of keeping the printed book in stock; HarperCollins maintains a deathgrip on my strongest backlist titles in this fashion.

In order to preserve the integrity and illusion of the world we've so carefully built, I'd rather players just get an impression of the weapon being stronger because it is made of stronger material.

Her early work, using the strong contrast of black and white lines, created an optical illusion of movement within the static image.

The mural is so large, and the illusion of depth so strong, photographs do not do it justice.

He has said that he is interested in the «hard core of reality», without illusions, and has displayed a strong commitment to his work and role as an artist.

The startling shifts of scale, audacious play with compositional possibilities, wild deployment of texture and gesture, and reconciliation of physical surface and illusion — all these are exceptionally strong in Eilshemius.

It requires a body of work that has a strong metaphoric quality, an art that is about illusion, association, imagination.

I guess this is the strong side (the genuinely disabused - of - illusion side) of his Duchampianism.

By the 1950s, smoking's cause of disease had risen to strong scientific consensus, but Big Tobacco needed an illusion of scientific controversy to keep the public in doubt.

When there's no contrast (the strong distinction between two values like black and white), the eye is able to move through a room uninterrupted, which creates the illusion of additional space.

The hanging game board art and over the couch shelf full of board games are busy enough as it is, so rather than placing yet another visually strong color into my game room basement scheme, the primer painted table lamp blends in with the wall, maybe even adds the illusion of a larger space!