Illusory

//ɪˈluː.sə.ɹiː//

"Illusory" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The feelings of "love at first sight" and "faithful unto death" are unrealistic; this sort of unrealistic and illusory feeling is not what we need.

May I awaken within the dream and grasp the fact that I am dreaming so that all dream-like beings may likewise awaken from the nightmare of illusory suffering and confusion.

Robert Louis Stevenson warns us that "to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive," beautifully portraying the emptiness and illusory character of achievement.

Human life is like a pendulum that oscillates incessantly between boredom and pain, with fleeting and above all illusory intervals of pleasure and joy.

From the stuff of dreams, the mind makes egos, fragile and illusory constructions.

The difference between being and non-being is illusory.

Someday, everything will just end for you. The curtains will go down. The illusory show will finish.

Glory is illusory.

My religion is work and science, everything else is illusory.

In the distance, mountains of cloud towered up like illusory snow-covered peaks, and Mary was as though transported to the foothills of the Alps.

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The invalidity of a cognition is the otherwiseness of its object, and is known by a sublating cognition. The illusory cognition of silver knows illusory silver, but does not know its otherwiseness.

Yet for this new womanosphere, the response is not advancing policies like paid family leave or affordable childcare, but to return to an idealized, illusory past where being a wife and mother was viewed as a woman’s sole purpose.

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