Traditional bus seats gave the illusion of comfortable upholstery, but were angular and did not reflect body shapes. Illusion, illusion, hallucination, mirage mean something that one believes to be true or real, but is in fact false or unreal. Illusion involves the inability to distinguish what is real from what appears to be real, often as a result of a disordered state of mind. The illusion of the illusion of persecution implies a false attribution of reality based on what one sees or imagines. A security hallucination illusion involves impressions that are the product of disturbed senses, for example due to mental illness or drugs. suffered terrible hallucinations Mirage in its extended sense refers to an illusory vision, a dream, a hope or a goal. claims that a balanced budget is a mirage The scorching atmosphere, the still air undoubtedly caused the optical illusion. Barmecide Festival An Illusion of Abundance; every illusion. In One Thousand and One Nights, Barmecide, a wealthy Persian nobleman, invited the beggar Shacabac to dine with him at a banquet table laden with dishes, all empty of food. The host feigned clemency at the illusory feast, and when the beggar followed enthusiastically, Barmecide regretted his joke and served the beggar a sumptuous meal. This last aspect of the story plays no role in the meaning of the sentence; The Barmecide festival retains only the aspect of history that deals with non-existent food. They said, “Freedom of speech is an illusion” and “Freedom of assembly is an illusion.” to have imaginative and extravagant thoughts about the future; to imagine the impossible.
A definition of casting is “calculate or guess, anticipate, predict” (OED). The moon was considered a mysterious force of inexplicable power. Beyond the Moon reinforces the idea of a kingdom where nothing is impossible. The phrase appeared as early as the middle of the 16th century. Cake to heaven An illusion of future blessings and blessings that will never be realized; A state of happiness or utopia unattainable. This expression, probably alluding to the concept of cake as something sweet and desirable, and sky as in the air, out of reach, became popular in a First World War song often attributed to Joe Hill (1927): allusion and illusion may share some of their ancestry (both words come in part from the Latin word ludere, meaning “game”) and sound quite similar, but they are different words with very different meanings. An allusion is an indirect reference, while an illusion is something unreal or false. Each of the nouns has a related verb form: suggesting “to refer indirectly to” and illude (not a very common word), which can mean: “to deceive or deceive” or “subject to illusion”. Several recent studies of people living in war and earthquake zones reflect Sosi`s recognition that rituals give participants a sense – or reassuring illusion – of control over the uncontrollable. And we have no illusions that this state of affairs is limited to one battalion. We have no illusions that this money will be enough. We should look at them if we have any illusions about sending children back to school.
When you have an illusion of something, you believe it exists, when in reality it does not. You don`t want to rest forever, tired heart. The last illusion is destroyed that I thought forever. On the surface, In Situ seems less disruptive than its alternative, but this is only an illusion. While tech stocks have recently reached new highs, investors should have no illusions about the cost of the stocks they want to buy. This description creates the illusion that we can solve all our environmental problems. An illusion is an act of deception. Some optical illusions are pretty cool to look at, but an illusion can also indicate a false belief or perception of reality, where you start falling into hallucinatory areas – seeing things that aren`t there. You can give the illusion that you are fascinated by your teacher`s lecture by chewing your pencil, frowning, and nodding enthusiastically from time to time. They say that someone is subject to illusion or deception. For a time, Yeltsin`s reign offered an illusion of stability.
The glass bricks in the bathroom gave the illusion of lightness and space. From the first entry to the last cry of triumph or despair, the illusion was perfect. The team wanted the site to look as much like Mars as possible, not factories, footprints or foliage to break the illusion. I admit all this to be the fever of the mind – a waking dream – an illusion for which mesmerism or magic is only frivolity. To give my students the illusion of eye contact, I learned to look at the green light on my MacBook Air. An illusion is also something that looks or sounds like a thing, but is either something else or is not there at all. An illusion is something that is not real. This may sound real, but it`s actually wrong – just a clever construction or fantasy.
Like the old rabbit trick out of the hat practiced by magicians around the world. But growing plants are too clean and carefully weeded and too evenly good to prolong the illusion. Many people still have the illusion that full employment is possible. Castle in Spain, the French equivalent, dates back to the 13th century. The OED attributes the reference to Spain to the fact that it is a “foreign country where you had no foothold”. Spain has been replaced by the current air or sky. Thou shalt eat, bye bye and bye, in the glorious land above heaven! Work and pray, live on hay, you will have cake in heaven when you die! Bow against windmills To fight imaginary evils, to fight opponents or injustices that are only the inventions of a hyperactive imagination. The allusion refers to Cervantes` Don Quixote of La Mancha, in which the hero Don Quixote imagines the windmills he has encountered as giants and goes into battle, with the result that the knight and his horse are wounded and his spear destroyed.