Vocabulary Word
Word: illusion
Definition: misleading vision or visual image; false idea or belief; CF. delusion
Definition: misleading vision or visual image; false idea or belief; CF. delusion
Sentences Containing 'illusion'
And it is devoutly to be hoped that science will perfect a method of color photography finally to dispel this illusion.
But it must be remembered that the means of creating this illusion were new to all and greatly wondered at.
It would seem that, after a certain point, the nearer your picture approaches the actual illusion of natural appearance, the further you are from the expression of life.
The danger is that in producing a complete illusion of representation, the particular vitality of your medium, with all the expressive power it is capable of yielding, may be lost.
As with our colleges, so with a hundred``modern improvements''; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.
I am fully persuaded that this double parallelism is by no means an accident or an illusion.
Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
It is a supreme illusion, a sort of perfect madness."
The Ehrenstein illusion is an optical illusion studied by the German psychologist Walter Ehrenstein (1899 – 1961) in which the sides of a square placed inside a pattern of concentric circles take an apparent curved shape (Figure 1).
The ends of the dark segments produce the illusion of circles.
Perhaps the best known among these were "" and "The Illusion of Technique", which remain in print.
Marriott stated "When one knows how a feat can be accomplished and what to look for, only the most skillful performer can maintain the illusion in the face of such informed scrutiny."
With drawing of blank pixels at the screen edges, this can be made invisible to the user creating just the illusion of a smooth vertical scroll.
He was trapped in a psychic illusion where he is with Amara, before the illusion is shattered when Selene's minions appear on Utopia's shores.
The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science is a book written by Andrew Montford and published by Stacey International in 2010.
Here, the author compares several e-mails to the evidence he presents in "The Hockey Stick Illusion."
Climatologist Judith Curry called "The Hockey Stick Illusion" "a well documented and well written book on the subject of the 'hockey wars.'
Bhram (English: "The illusion") is a 2008 Hindi film starring Dino Morea, Milind Soman and Sheetal Menon.
During the events of "W Forever", The Luna Dopant uses his illusion powers to create henchmen for NEVER called .
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In the scene Menken wore a flesh coloured bodystocking to preserve her modesty while giving the illusion of nudity.
His mother knew it was an illusion, though, and she told him that she knew shortly before she died.
Before proceeding with a new sculpture the artist draws a sketch of a solid object to create a graphic illusion of a volumetric image by using simple lines.
Nicholas dismisses it as an illusion but it is later revealed that Smike was right.
This forced the playwright to use words to create the illusion of day and night in his plays.
Shakespeare uses references to the night and day, the stars, the moon, and the sun to create this illusion.
All in all, no fewer than 103 references to time are found in the play, adding to the illusion of its passage.
He taks photographs of life, beauty, illusion and volatility and looks out for the unexpected.
The song is built around a sample of "Just an Illusion" (1982) by British band Imagination.
Using an illusion, Loki tricked the Hulk into destroying a railroad track.
After an initial misunderstanding, the heroes united and defeated Loki after Thor was lured away by an illusion of the Hulk and suspected Loki when he realized it was an illusion.
This created the illusion that the volcanic island was erupting.
In fact, Maya is a quite common name in India, coming from the Sanskrit word for illusion.
Chung's most famous illusion, partly because of his death while performing it, was called "Condemned to Death by the Boxers".
The beta movement is an optical illusion, first described by Max Wertheimer in 1912.
Its illusion is that fixed images seem to move, even though of course the image does not change.
On taking office in January 1961, Kennedy was informed that the missile gap was an illusion.
The Illusion is the 33rd book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate.
This phenomenon, also known as hyperextension, can give the illusion of throwing.
He compared "scientific knowledge" to ordinary knowledge in the way we deal with it, and saw error as only illusion: "Scientifically, one thinks truth as the historical rectification of a persistent error, and experiments as correctives for an initial, common illusion ("illusion première").
These appear relatively suddenly and are a major contributor to the illusion of a 'complex life from nowhere' scenario.
On January 1, 1984, his third novel was published, "The Emerald Illusion" (ISBN 0-688-02622-2).
See-through or sheer fabric, particularly in skintone (called "nude") colours, is sometimes called illusion, as in 'illusion bodice' (or sleeve) due to giving the impression of exposed flesh.
She also performed songs from his repertoire, to add to the illusion.
The illusion has been examined in psychological experiments, and suggested as a basis for biases in how people compare themselves to others.
The phrase "introspection illusion" was coined by Emily Pronin.
Pronin describes the illusion as having four components:
Unreliability of introspection.
Emily Pronin and Matthew Kugler argue that this phenomenon is due to the introspection illusion.
The Orbison illusion is an optical illusion that was first described by the psychologist William Orbison (1909 – 1981) in 1939.
(The rabbit-duck illusion is an example: it is not possible to see both the rabbit and the duck simultaneously.)
Instead, technicians moved lights behind the car to create the illusion.