If not, this one had certainly mastered the illusion. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

To this end, the very first spell the novice illusionist must learn is the extremely simple spell that casts aside illusions set forth by others. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And Juana said, “Perhaps the dealers were right and the pearl has no value. Perhaps this has all been an illusion.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper and Jason were together now, in real life, but their relationship had been founded on an illusion. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When our well-being is threatened, when our illusions about ourselves are challenged, we tend—some of us at least—to fly into murderous rages. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams--not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Harry did not like being stationary; walking had given the illusion that they had a goal. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This, too, I felt, made for a richer illusion of reality. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The current gently pushed the lifeboat closer to the illusion. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cottage did in fact give one the illusion of freedom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Classic prose is a pleasant illusion, like losing yourself in a play. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The bark tasted good—like raw beans—and gave her the illusion she was eating as well as working. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Passing off manipulations as tricks and illusion. Charging admission.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The credit was God’s, and there was no illusion about the Central Position’s shifting or becoming less than Itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They voted instead to clad their buildings in “staff,” a resilient mixture of plaster and jute that could be molded into columns and statuary and spread over wood frames to provide the illusion of stone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Piero, who was a mathematician as well as a painter, demonstrates his total command of perspectivist illusion and uses the vanishing point to convey God’s incomprehensibility. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The way to achieve the ultimate liberation through lifelessness is to cease paying heed to the illusion of reality. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The federalist fervor, which the exiles had pictured as a powder keg about to explode, had dissolved into a vague electoral illusion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He realized just in time that a section of mosaic floor in front of him was an illusion covering a ten-foot-deep excavation pit. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

What they allow to happen to other human beings so that they can have the illusion of power, the barest whiff of control. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But I see now how sedulously she labored to create her illusion; for she knew it should protect me only so long as I believed it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Have you come to show me your own feats of illustrious illusion?” she asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had no illusions about the prospect before her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I had no illusions about the sentence I would receive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One could slip away unseen for short periods of time and have the temporary illusion of freedom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the first shimmer had appeared in the distance, he’d thought it must be an illusion, like the lakes they sometimes saw that vanished as they drew near, but this hadn’t vanished. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I stood, staring at them, as if it were an illusion that I was seeing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although it was surely an illusion, the city, with Table Mountain looming behind it, looked agonizingly close, as if one could almost reach out and grasp it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he saying that fear was an illusion? Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The size of that hybrid—are they really that scary or was Moreau exaggerating with his illusion? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

To me the illusions and fantasy of the movies were the stark reality of a world I was forbidden to enter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if you go into the theatre, will you have any illusions about that? Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly there I was, at eighteen, thrust into a world where all those illusions were shattered. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I find it hard to trust that my good fortune will continue, I am under no illusions about what I’ve left behind. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But such a feeling would be an illusion, and too risky. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The advantage of this is the Southern black man never has been under any illusions about the opposition he is dealing with. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that they were exactly alike, that they were surrounded by the same barren hard-packed earth, furthered the illusion. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On some days she is stronger, and gives the illusion of improvement. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A girl who could project illusions with her mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In this dress, I give the illusion of wearing candlelight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Only an extremely powerful magician could’ve pulled off an illusion of that size without realizing it.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The authors write as if everyone knows what the “rabbit illusion” is, but I’ve been in this business for nearly forty years and had never heard of it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

What he had seen, he knew, might be a reflection, a piece of flat shell accidentally drifted in or a complete illusion. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The subtle, recurring confusion between illusion and reality that was characteristic of paramnesia fascinated the chaplain, and he knew a number of things about it. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

My illusions of our after-school romance are dissolving like vapor. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Simple, little pinch of mortality: If you aim true, you’ll escape this illusion. If you don’t, well, you’ll die. Don’t worry, we can make this whole ordeal go much more quickly. Watch.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Being in the pulpit was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion was worked. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The moon was bright, and the rolling hills and dry lake flats reflected a silvery light illusion that everything was as visible as if seen in broad daylight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A man will reveal himself in the dark, which gives an illusion of anonymity, more than he will in the bright light. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most professional astronomers of the day were skeptical, believing the “canal lines” were optical illusions. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The Frenchman talks about optical illusions, electromagnetism; there’s a pause and a peal of static, as though a record is being flipped, and then he enthuses about coal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Or it was some kind of illusion, the kind they performed in the theaters off East Stave—a girl cut in half, doves from a teapot. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wandered around the room and touched everything to reassure myself that it was real and not some demonic illusion. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The illusion of change is so convincing that we share Apollo’s shock at the metamorphosis. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe it, can’t believe we are brought to this, that the greatest happiness I have ever known—my life with him—was an illusion. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the islands of vegetation fenced in within the clusters of willow trees creating the illusion of a heavily forested swampland. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Like you said, it’s not magic. Must be something like our sky turning gray. Some kind of optical illusion or hologram, hiding a doorway. This place is all jacked up.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Yes, but if I hadn't been shifted, I would still be living in a world of illusion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sidhean had said that what he felt for her was as real as she was, and from what she recalled from the fairy tales, a glamour was only an illusion. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We might feel that they’re still there, but it's just an illusion cast in cement. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Twenty-seven species, ranging in size from dragons to Bundimuns, were to be hidden from Muggles so as to create the illusion that they had never existed outside the imagination. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hairpin crown was an optical illusion: it’s just hair, graying and cropped short. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is still a fairly astounding notion to consider that atoms are mostly empty space, and that the solidity we experience all around us is an illusion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

After that long night in the rain, I’d seemed to grow cold inside, all the illusions gone, all the old ambitions and hopes for myself sucked away into the mud. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The illusion was so complete that I had trouble keeping my balance. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ged shot breadcrumb arrows after the owls and brought them down, and when they touched the ground there they lay, bone and crumb, all illusion gone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even the most convincing illusion is the product of the artist’s imagination and understanding, so that we must always ask why this subject was chosen and made this way rather than some other way. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chivalry and justice became a child’s illusions, if the stock on which he had tried to graft them was to be the Thrasher, was to be Homo ferox instead of Homo sapiens. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m getting better and better at painting illusions by hand. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I groped into the dark room and fumbled for the bed; I had the illusion that if I touched it I would encounter the dead boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man goes to sleep in a golden palace and wakes up in a set of ruins, for the man had been the victim of illusions conjured by the demons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a convincing illusion that even I, who knew the essential falseness of it, felt oddly comforted. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Some of the most insidious tricks employed tonight will involve artifice and illusion. Without the milk you could be even more susceptible. It would only broaden their ability to mask their true appearance.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Mini brought out her compact mirror and pulled out an illusion of a candy. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thenceforth he studied the high arts and enchantments, passing beyond arts of illusion to the works of real magery, learning what he must know to earn his wizard's staff. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Still, her ignorance was her bliss, and Rowan decided not to shatter her illusion that she was free. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

To the surveyors who shot it, all but the summit nub of Peak XV was obscured by various high escarpments in the foreground, several of which gave the illusion of being much greater in stature. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

None of the exposition directors or officers had any illusions, however. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Burnham assured them that ample time remained but that he had no illusions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As such, I’m under no illusions about the fact that they have a separate life that doesn’t involve me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He shouted “Help!” several times, more and more loudly so as to give himself the illusion of helping. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alba shook her head, closed her eyes, and surrendered to the sweet illusion of death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this was the truth of him, and the image she’d held on to this last year had been an illusion. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her fingertips were turning white from the effort of keeping up the illusion of the sprig of youth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It came with illusions that befuddled the mind and heightened the senses. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we’d lead a hard life here. Enjoy illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I always make them stay for as long as a cajecito to give the illusion that they are real visitors. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I thought I had lost my ability to fall in love forever, that I would never laugh again or pursue an illusion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This illusion, or hope of one, was dispelled as her eyes adjusted to the gloom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

These things—even the thing in the cellar—were illusions, things made by the other mother in a ghastly parody of the real people and real things on the other end of the corridor. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The hallways are cramped, though the light coming through the windows creates the illusion of space; they are one of the only places where the factions mix, at our age. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But how could she escape an illusion when it didn’t exist? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For I had no illusions left now, I no longer made any effort to pretend. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I'm too busy trying not to make eye contact with people while giving off the illusion that I am. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His T-shirt gives the illusion of having been sweaty and dried out again. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"But then I met this guy and he shattered the illusion." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But no matter how many times I caught the stranger by his shoulder, the moment he turned around, the illusion was shattered. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He grumbled about the dinner when he had finished it, but then turning to Ged said, “At least it’s not illusion, like so much around here; it sticks to your ribs.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Rêves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I thought I saw some animals too, but I dismissed the sight as illusion crafted by rain and shadow. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Painting manual illusions is a lot harder than the automatic illusions. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I have no illusions whatever on that score.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I knew the glow was my imag-ination or an optical illusion based on the fact that the light coming from the basement was bright while the rest of the house was so dark. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“For our first illusion, I will produce Miss Peregrine herself!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

This uniform had become a force field that kept the craziness of the world outside from getting too close to me, but I wondered if it was just an illusion. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Because I crafted an illusion,” he says with a smile. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But that was an illusion born of memory and yearning. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Would I have let myself open up to him, lulled by the security of money and food and the illusion of safety being a victor could bring under different circumstances? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like Mini’s compact that could see through illusions or make some of its own. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know illusions could do so much. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But why should so many of us cherish the illusion of having made a personal choice in art when in fact we have not? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This must be what Dylan used to get rid of his tattoo girl illusion. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Can your illusions be viewed from all angles?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You will yet bear many sons. I see them, and what the dying see will come to pass...be assured, this is no illusion.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this Gulf of uncertain light there were more illusions than realities. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the quiet that follows, I try to imagine not being able to tell illusion from reality. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She tells Gogol that her husband delights in illusions like these, is consoled by them, whereas she finds them simply to be reminders of what is missing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lean back against my bed with the book in my lap, and begin to practice the motions of hidden coin illusion. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

That night I slept easily, and it was only on waking up that this illusion was gone, and I was confronted with myself, and what I had done to Finny. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel had led him through that creepy maze of illusions. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Everything here feels wrong somehow, everything about this room—as if it’s all an illusion that will shatter if I reach out and touch it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Thomas hesitated, feeling one last moment of stark terror—hearing the horrible sounds behind him, seeing the illusion in front of him—then snapped out of it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t spoken since the day he nearly shoved me off the roof, but we both understood the importance of maintaining the illusion of having friends. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I expected the bubble of illusion to burst at any second. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The spell book shows you how to create automatic illusions, but you can also paint them manually too.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

"Not quite," Jack said above the others' angry demands, "but you soon will be, unless you return. Refuse and we'll free you of your illusions all right." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had thought they were following a path, but now that he tried to see the path, it shimmered, and vanished, like an optical illusion. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

And this illusion is only a moderate one compared to the one I had in 1928, when I regarded myself not only as the Laughing Man’s direct descendant but as his only legitimate living one. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Although it wasn’t warranted, a small fire of pecan logs popped in the fireplace to foster the illusion that summer was well past us. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him and his gyptian companions that the inundation had a stranger source than the weather because it had begun to cause curious illusions and to behave in unexpected ways. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“So, the illusion wore off, huh? Seeing some truth now?” he says. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I pulled the eiderdown up around my neck, an illusion of armor. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It had emerged from the sea with the speed and the impossibility of a huge stage illusion. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They cannot persist without solace, without illusion, they are disordered before the naked picture of despair. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mini, can the Death Danda make an illusion that looks like a human being?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They are not locked into their usual the-world-is-beneath-me sneer, but hang on his face like melting cheese, creating the illusion that he is an actual human being and a sad one, at that. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So she’ll be doing what you said he did, actual magic disguised as stage illusions. Did she do that at the audition?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She thought the illusion would be like a creepy glitchy thing, as if one moment she’d see the illusion and the other moment she’d see the reality. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clinging to the illusion of their marriage, she concluded, “Well Ernest I must close my short letter. Hoping to hear from you soon. Good by from your wife, Mollie Burkhart.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the exhausting days spent taking care of unknown patients, she regained the light that had illuminated her from within when she was young, and for a time she had the illusion of being happy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though they might be eaten, they had to obey the instinct that made them seek out the darkest place, on the far side of the light—and in this case it was an illusion. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This gave the illusion there was a bottom that might be safely reached, when really the quarry was so deep even a strong swimmer should consider it bottomless. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Delusion is much stronger than illusion, and implies that Cyril has been misled or deceived—in this case, by himself. alternate/alternative. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But safety's an illusion I know never to trust. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We were exhausted, we had lost all strength, all illusion. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know the truth about you,” said the illusion. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Light here serves as a device to create the convincing illusion that David is standing before us. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, so sure in my illusion that I risked making him talk, risked even making him talk about the army. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes as I am falling asleep in a dark, quiet room I have for a moment a great and treasurable illusion of the past. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And two years ago, it was Dylan who warned Moreau that VanQuish was coming to arrest him, giving Moreau time to wrap his former apprentice in an illusion so he could escape. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Loki said, “Tell me about last night, in the castle. Was that illusion too?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Fat, talkative, with the airs of a matron in disgrace, she renounced the sterile illusions of her cards and found peace and consolation in other people's loves. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Booth hopes to create the illusion that Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of assassins, resulting in the sort of mass chaos that will make it easier for them all to escape. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They held not the slightest illusion of conscience. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the Aztecs had no illusions about the Spaniards, whom they described in these words: They seized upon the gold as if they were monkeys, their faces gleaming. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The illusion went with it, and the lights in the windows were extinguished. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Or when I made my illusion throw that spaghetti at Lara. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Every time my magic has overflowed into illusions, he’s been right there. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

When I looked back to make sure I was in the right neighborhood, the illusion was broken. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"I'm through with all your illusions and lies, I'm through running." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks identical to the illusion except there’s a presence to him that I never felt back at Blackstone Prison. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The illusion was so complete, she couldn’t even find an answer. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

ME: Now imagine we were set free from this illusion. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Neither niece nor baby grandaunt labored under any illusions on that account. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect was disquieting; it made her wonder if the whole palace was just an extraordinary illusion. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

From there, an illusion of Aru’s mother stepped out into the Hall of the Gods. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He practices the things he has been taught, though it is difficult to gauge the effectiveness of his illusions on his own. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had no illusions: old plans, if one could ever remember them, the plans that time had overtaken, tended to have a febrile and overoptimistic grip on events. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

An illusion flickered to life on the ground, showing a rocky cliff that dropped off into the sea. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I've come a long way from those days when, full of illusion, I lived a public life and attempted to function under the assumption that the world was solid and all the relationships therein. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an illusion, made out of mist. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In point of fact, Linda aspired to certain illusions of security offered by those establishment traditions and values which had created an insupportable tension between the lawyer and his first wife. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lush garden dripped from the ceiling, eclipsing the previous illusion. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We have no illusions about the countermeasures your government might take,” I wrote. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in the face of the poor lady’s simple hope, he had lacked the courage to break her illusion with an immediate blow. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Ash had seen him, she might have thought that he was a fairy, for all around him the Wood seemed enmeshed in a web of illusion. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the blood began to well from the wound, spreading across his doublet, dyeing it red, and I realized with a shock that this was no illusion. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was no wilderness, but manicured groves of red-fringed switchgrass, buckthorn, elm, and black cherry, carefully tended to give the illusion of a wild space. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’s lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now I know, whatever your burdens, to hold yourself apart from the lot of more powerful men is an illusion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the grand illusion of the darkness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this were an enchantment of illusion, it was powerful beyond belief; to make the Open Sea seem land. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

You could say the majority of Americans were always geeks, until we got post-Depression urbanization and illusions of sophistication. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or that optical illusion with the staircases that never stop going upward. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At least I have the illusion of change, of possibility. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a flick of my fingers, the illusion pushes the plate of spaghetti right into Lara’s face. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Of course, one could say that free will is an illusion anyway. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The face one shows him he invariably reflects back at one, creating the illusion of warmth and depth when in fact he is brittle and shallow as a mirror. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And, somehow, Dad passed along to us the illusion that placid old Rena was a taunt ship. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks, grasping for thought and reason again, of birth, and wonders, without fear, in a moment of perfect postcoital clarity, whether what he sees is some kind of illusion. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In a single night, as if by magic, beautifully pruned gardens and flowerbeds appeared on the avenues; they had been planted by the unemployed, to create the illusion of a peaceful spring. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is like backstage: grease paint, smoke, the materials of illusion. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dylan says the secret to making an illusion is to focus on an image in your head and imagine it pouring out of your fingers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Through her tears, Hazel explained how she had switched the physician’s cure for an illusion - a trick of the Mist - so that Leo could keep the real vial. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

All rulers of all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers, but they could not afford to encourage any illusion that tended to impair military efficiency. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This can never be true, but there are people who pull the illusion off without effort, and Prince was one of them. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Super idea! A portable illusion of shelter and safety. Have you room for two?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We took up the struggle with our eyes wide open, under no illusion that the path would be an easy one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She holds out her hand and turns it slowly, presenting it with a certain amount of showmanship so that Marco can see that there is no illusion involved. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was not normal procedure to give commandos this kind of information, but Wilson wanted the men going in with no illusions. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tears off a match, lights the wick: it flickers and then burns with a steady flame, which gives the illusion of motion to the faceless statue beside it, all hips and breasts. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love’s illusion. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The illusion of my “Negro-ness” took over so completely that I fell into the same pattern of talking and thinking. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. But, when you were shipwrecked, you sailed from the place in a boat woven mostly of spells, and it didn’t leak water. Was it illusion?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some economists argue that the apparent paradox rests on an illusion: there is no real “labor shortage,” only a shortage of people willing to work at the wages currently being offered. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Yet for all that it would quench no thirst, being but illusion. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s an illusion that you have a whole field of attention,” Dr. Gazzaley says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Now you're free of illusions," Jack said, pointing to my seed wasting upon the air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top was sleeveless and cinched at the waist, and it was cut to give the illusion that I had curves in just the right places. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The six laws we singled out were not overturned; but we never had any illusion that they would be. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window gave at least the illusion of greater intimacy, and in prison, illusions can offer comfort. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next image showed a mishmash of all the items from the previous illusions. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I knew very well that all he said was ridiculous, not light for their darkness but flattery, illusion, a vortex pulling them from sunlight to heat, a kind of midsummer burgeoning, waltz to the sickle. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe loves theatricality of any kind—all the magic and illusion that can be created onstage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dylan’s illusion is a whole forest of twinkling neon lights. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was severely criticized for this irrational belief by many people, most notably by Bishop Berkeley, a philosopher who believed that all material objects and space and time are an illusion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt so well, so close to perfect companionship, that he thought of no other refuge on the afternoon on which Amaranta Úrsula had made his illusions crumble. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sensory details of the illusion are so luscious, it is almost dizzying. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He would finger himself here and there, trying to make sure that it was not an illusion that his muscles were growing rounder and his skin tauter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It must have been a trick, some sort of clever illusion. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the hope that it might be an illusion kept Annabeth from passing out from fear. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to back away from it, but still I wanted to discuss it, to consult someone who'd tell me it was only a brief, emotional illusion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no illusions that the state would agree to our proposal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wrapped myself in an illusion that can only be smelled instead of seen. You never know what supernaturals you’ll run into at the Bureau, so I make sure to always hide my magician’s scent.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The illusion—as she had to keep reminding herself—felt so real that the grass even prickled beneath her feet. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It may have been an illusion, but it seemed that the hungrier he got, the farther Mrs. Pickwell’s whistle traveled. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They became convinced that the secret messages were an illusion. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they hadn’t really kissed at all; perhaps it was all just an illusion. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As I listened to the talk I could see black minds shedding many illusions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an illusion, of course, generated by Clevinger’s predilection for staring fixedly at one side of a question and never seeing the other side at all. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I can even paint moving illusions now, which are tricky because you have to concentrate so hard to make the movements look natural. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Though White encouraged efforts at rehabilitation, he had few illusions about many of the men contained in the Hot House. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And the fire illusion at the table during the Welcome Social....Even my very first illusion at the Crystal Ball—Dylan was in the front row. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The case Madison had tried to make for the Potomac was simultaneously crafty and driven by romantic illusions about its prowess that were shared by Jefferson, Washington, and most members of the Virginia dynasty. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There are things stewing, horrible stinks, little sulfurous explosions, amazing illusions. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

More importantly, driving seemed to cost much less than using public transport — an illusion created by the fact that the price of a new car did not include the price of building new roads. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

I sweep away my illusion and step out onto the stage in front of the microphone Dylan left for me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it’s tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My parents had spent almost their entire lives living within a couple of square miles in Chicago, but they had no illusions that Craig and I would do the same. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Where are you going, young sorceress? Running from an illusion?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The illusion was painful, but it was so much better than anything in Matt’s current life. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had lost weight and at first I thought she might have grown, because she looked taller, but then I realized it was just an optical illusion, the effect of my own shrinking. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It created the illusion of a naked woman. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had lost the illusion that I would find some Rosetta stone that would unlock the secrets of the past. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When someone is doing two things at once, “there is an illusion of productivity,” David E. Meyer, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan told me for the story. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And later, I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you’re in control. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he said, “That was well done. Brilliantly deployed illusions. I think we’ve all learned something today.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But that is my own illusion, a hangover from a version of reality I learned in the former time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it again proves an illusion, then they will break up; hope is high, it cannot be taken away again without an upheaval. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, he had always known that his skin was white, just as Du Bois was never under any illusions about the color of his skin. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For at least a few months after the kite tournament, Baba and I immersed ourselves in a sweet illusion, saw each other in a way that we never had before. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“How fitting that I am called the Palace of Illusions when all I have left are memories. Perhaps memories are the grandest illusion of all,” said the palace quietly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have come to understand, however, that the illusion of perfect control can amount to the same thing. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

So what happened onstage with the Crystal Ball was just an illusion? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But I’m not onstage—it was just an illusion. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Not as incredible as your illusion,” says Dylan. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As we get closer, the illusion weakens, but only because the glass has gotten dirty. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The only downside is that in order to keep Dylan’s secret, I can’t tell Elsie how I got the spell book or how I learned to paint illusions in the first place. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Especially the tricks of illusion came to him so easily that it seemed he had been born knowing them and needed only to be reminded. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There is hope in such a superstition; there is the illusion of control. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I jerk my head, trying to drive out illusion. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are the losers in the Jones family illusion, and you and Mom are the winners. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The drinker does indeed find escape, he does indeed find a short respite and rest, but he returns from the illusion and finds everything as it was before. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

At midday the illusions merged into the sky and there the sun gazed down like an angry eye. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They lie staring up at the chandelier, the light reflecting over the crystals turning it into the night sky without need of any illusion. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was after he had changed pajamas that I realized he had still not quite lost his illusion. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Manipulations and illusions he has been expressly informed again and again must be kept secret. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Provides an illusion of reality—puts together all their facts with a gluey whine of connectedness. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a little startled myself, for it seemed for an instant as if the stranger had great eyes like burning flames; but a second look dispelled the illusion. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It would be tempting to invite her in, for in the depths of grief, sometimes one cannot tell the difference between illusion and reality. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, Matty thought, everything was an illusion to a man who had lost his eyes. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A fire sprang up instantly: It gave the illusion of coziness to the stark stone walls and glistened off the long wooden table. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Keep the mirror in your hand. I think it doesn’t just show what’s an illusion; it can also make them.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

San Piedro children delighted in their field toil in part because of the social life it provided, in part because it furnished the illusion that a job had been included in the summer’s proceedings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I may not be as strong an illusionist as you are, but it’s still my favorite kind of magic. Painting illusions is sort of my hobby.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

If Balekin calls for guards or grabs him, that illusion will dissipate. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hideo's invention uses the world’s best 3-D effects generator—your own brain—to create for you the most incredible illusion of reality ever. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No wonder that a modern spymaster called espionage a “wilderness of mirrors...an ever-fluid landscape where fact and illusion merge.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting out of the house, and as far as this, so easily, had all been an illusion, From somewhere, Hooper had been watching. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

From here on timing was crucial if the illusion was to be effective. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But this is no illusion in this case. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet are on safe, solid ground, but that’s just an illusion. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She had climbed to the summit of Everest with Hall in 1993, and she entertained no illusions about the gravity of her husband’s predicament. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s relevant, all right. See, that charm was special. What could it do again? Oh yeah. As long as I wore it, I could see through any illusions. Pretty useful, right?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

An illusion of me appears in the clearing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

My cheeks flush, remembering how easy Dylan said illusions are supposed to be for me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The Institute’s ‘lack of rules’ is an illusion, not to mention its excellent reputation. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then, within him, the mutual babble of everyone else in fusion broke the illusion of aloneness. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And I paint an illusion, letting the image pour out of my fingertips. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I was certain it was an illusion that a few blinks would make disappear. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The young lawyer was on civil, if not close, terms with Durham’s older black leaders, but he labored under no illusions about their willingness to take bold action. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Breaking waves that moonlight and forlorn hope fashioned into illusion? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She was an illusion, and all the tech magic she supposedly performed was actually Dylan here.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As illusion, it has never worked out to his satisfaction in the past, any more than it does today. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She once scaled a rooftop at work, in their virtual parkour station, but that was an illusion. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If this was real and not illusion, he’d escape whatever trap these creatures had set for him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I change the illusion to my apartment and have the audience glide through like one of those virtual house tours on the internet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Call it what you will. Glamor, seeming, illusion. R’hllor is Lord of Light, Jon Snow, and it is given to his servants to weave with it, as others weave with thread.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We all know that Pa will not return, but no one dares to say it out loud for it will shatter our illusion of hope. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps there was no illusion, and they had come to world's end. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

My epic fantasies offer the illusion of generosity but never the real thing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You don’t live in the real world, Z. From what you’ve told me, I don’t think you ever have. You’re like me. You live inside this illusion.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The creepy old Bottle Tree forest stood in front of me, its canopy creating the illusion of a tunnel. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Though he had no illusions of his own immortality, he apparently feared being buried alive, perhaps believing that was really what had happened with Jesus. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The illusion fades, and all at once he looks like any other tired thirteen-year-old boy who needs a haircut. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t a trick or illusion or something?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If the body remains horizontal, the air resistance gives the illusion of floating. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to argue with Perez, and entertained no illusions that it was within my power to change his ways. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she looked up and met his eyes, the illusion disappeared, and she put down the flute and came to him. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I understand that,” said Govinda, "but that is just what the Illustrious One called illusion. He preached benevolence, forbearance, sympathy, patience—but not love. He forbade us to bind ourselves to earthly love.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The illusion was gone as soon as it had come. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Noise and motion gave an illusion of warmth, dispelling that utter, glacial silence, but I was still too cold to sleep that night. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

That’s who the minders are like—the adults of Omelas, the ones who smile and go about their day and revel in the false illusion of freedom while their souls are withered, desolate things. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“That thing with the spaghetti—I didn’t know your illusions could do that.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the toughest membrane imaginable in the universe, opaque to probability, impermeable to death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is one of my specialties, yet there is little opportunity to use it. I am not adept at creating this type of illusion to be viewed by more than one person at a time.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But then where is this illusion of control?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

From the moon, he argued, one would have the illusion that the moon was stationary and that the Earth floated through the sky. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And there was something else, a hollowness that was likely the result of the illusion, an impression that he was not entirely present in the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Practicing with Isobel has proved an advantage, enabling him to improve aspects of his illusions to the point where even with her familiarity she cannot always discern what is real. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I like to keep my home real. It’s too easy to lose yourself in an illusion,” he replies, nodding at his physical book. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well—the general air, the style, the self-possession, the—the—illusion—you know”, laughed Laurie, breaking down and helping himself out of his quandary with the new word. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the grip of agonizing pain or complete debilitation, most jockeys clung to their illusion of invulnerability. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if we do so, we should labor under no illusions that we will end mass incarceration or shake the foundations of the current racial order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The airplane ride exhilarated him, encouraged illusion and a feeling of invulnerability. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Whisperer’s version of happiness is an illusion—it doesn’t take away your fears, it only lies to you about them, makes you temporarily believe you don’t have them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the reason I wasn’t punished for my fire illusion? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: “He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some, fear had a way of breaking through the illusion. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chink confirmed the illusion that both coins were in his left hand, while they were now both held safely in his right. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I'm glad for the solitude, even though it's an illusion, because I'm probably on-screen right now. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Trying to collect his wits and courage, Vetch spoke the Revelation-spell, watching between each slow-syllabled word for change or tremor of illusion in this strange drying and shallowing of the abyss of ocean. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The walls and high ceiling, both painted black, added to the illusion of boundless space. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Am I close enough for your illusion?” she asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Is it an illusion, Hazel Levesque, or something more? Don’t you see what I have created?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t bother with the illusion of walking. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Moreau sighs heavily and the illusions fade away until only he and his rocking chair remain. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Special tactile feedback pads covered both palms, allowing the gloves to create the illusion that I was touching objects and surfaces that didn’t actually exist. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were no windows, so to give an illusion of light and space one wall was covered in a huge photogram showing a tropical beach, with bright blue sky and white sand and coconut palms. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“So you see the truth about me, don’t you? Well, that’s all right. I’ve always thought that women can see through illusions best.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was curious, but when you said it to yourself you had the illusion of actually hearing bells, the bells of a lost London that still existed somewhere or other, disguised and forgotten. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This provides the illusion that it is in a general way all one thing, and that it turns out, on demand, a single, unambiguous product, which is health. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only an illusion, but a perfect illusion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Back then, he’d thought it was a hallucination, another one of the jungle’s illusions, but he saw clearly now. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Both of these things seemed an illusion to me, a wish granted that could not be trusted. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refused, even though I no longer had any illusions about what an education could do for me; I had already encountered too many college-graduate handymen. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“I see the wisdom of the illusion now. I would not attempt to shake your faith, even if I could.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

My illusion vanishes and Elsie scrambles around the table to where I’m standing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He shook his head to clear the illusion, but it was no illusion. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s about teaching you to use your illusions,” says Dylan. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It constitutes a kind of psychological illusion to which innumerate people are particularly prone. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not matter so much that the Virginia-writ-large vision was mostly an illusion; it was a deeply felt illusion that the location of the new capital somewhat appeased. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She clambered up on the bench and pounded on the wall where the hole had been, hoping the hole’s absence was just an illusion, but the wall felt solid. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He tried to make these young girls happy for a short while, but from the very first moment of illusion he began to say goodbye, until he finally, delicately, left them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shimmering illusion of me appears, and she catches the plate of spaghetti in midair. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Tyrion had no illusions about the king's love for his sister. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The effect didn’t last long, but sometimes just the illusion of happiness was enough to make her clients feel like they could face another day. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The answer may lie in the study of metamemory illusions — situations that lead people to consistently overestimate or underestimate their future memory of something. Illusions influence our predictions about how well we’ll remember in the future 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

It was a bracing show, full of extraordinary work, juxtaposed with both whim and passion, and delightfully free of the artsy verbiage that too many contemporary curators use to give the illusion of gravitas. Review | Five art exhibitions you really didn’t want to miss in 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

But the exalted, rarefied atmosphere is to some extent a carefully maintained illusion, an aspect of the show. Film: Movies, Mountains and High Hopes 2010-09-06T22:55:00Z

The fragile fiction of Klein’s identity is matched by the fragile illusions of his social whirl. “Mr. Klein,” a Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

The ingredients “Beetlejuice” uses to whip up its eye candy include projections, puppets, illusions and special effects. The creators of the ‘Beetlejuice’ musical ‘tried to run toward Burton’ visually 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

“But if you dive into this illusion, it can only lead you to madness.” How Marion Cotillard Tackled One of the Most Coveted Roles of All Time 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

“The waters have washed away a lot of illusions here, Mr. President,” Weatherall tells the president. Review | What was George W. Bush really like? A novelist whips up a campy portrait. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

Play the discs in sequence, and Mr. Dusapin’s music seems to expand, break up and dissipate before your ears: a not altogether inappropriate illusion. Classical Recordings: Pascal Dusapin?s Seven Solos for Orchestra 2010-05-13T14:41:00Z

Most viral videos don't become television series, but this one has because the esoteric process of creating the illusion equally fascinates, even if viewers have no fondant-focused aspirations. "Is It Cake?" feeds viewers visual catharsis for uncertain times 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

If Arnold was under any grandiose illusions that he was a white knight for American democracy, it helped that he was getting calls from serious journalists. Whatever became of the anti-Trump prophets? 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

It’s not that the other performances in “Graduation” are bad—in fact, they’re blandly and professionally good—but they’re repressed performances that, in their narrowness, evoke, above all, Mungiu’s own proudly earnest illusion of reality. The Moralizing Pseudo-Realism of Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

“I am a racial optical illusion,” he says. ‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Life is an accumulation of losses, and their pace is accelerating — privacy, innocence and the illusion of invincibility have all grown tougher to hold onto for long. Review: In ‘Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!,’ He’s Too Hot to Live 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

The design of its special effects is the ostensible subject of many of the book’s chapters, vignettes in which bodies both human and machine provide the blueprints for mega-budget illusion. Review | Tom McCarthy’s ‘The Making of Incarnation’ is a mind-bending international caper 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Add mirrors: Decorative mirrors offer another way to create an illusion of space and light. 8 ways to make the most of a basement apartment 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Clifford, on the other hand, represented herself as having no illusions about herself or Mr. Trump. How Stormy Daniels Out-Trumped Trump 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

It must be an illusion, he tells himself — surely his daughter is at home with his wife — until the little girl looks directly at him and mouths the word: “Daddy!” Pop-Up Brothels, Severed Tongues and Creepy Nursery Rhymes 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

I am under no illusion that he and I will ever be together, but I fantasise constantly about us meeting, becoming lovers and eventually having a daughter together. My life in sex: 'I think about the musician when I'm in bed with my boyfriend'' 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

In the theater, and perhaps in life, Mr. Gordon seems to posit that illusion is reliable — reality is the slippery one. Dance Review: ‘Beginning of the End of the ’ at Joyce SoHo 2012-06-07T21:56:16Z

“This intriguing debut collection grapples with technology and its illusion of convenience, choice and escape,” Vanessa Hua writes in her review of four story collections. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Although the choreographic rightness of “Barocco” is an illusion — Bach certainly never envisaged anything like Balanchine’s physicality — it’s a persuasive one. New York City Ballet Double Bill at Lincoln Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Mrs. Herrera showed a more relaxed attitude, especially with a long version of the bird print, crisp cotton dresses with a collaged front panel, pegged trousers and asymmetrical pleating that was sometimes a stitched illusion. Fashion Review: Women?s Wear Moves Beyond the Sporting Look - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-13T04:43:22Z

With each passing day our illusion of order is shattered.” French Photographer Wins Prix Pictet 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Their “Locale” deliberately created the illusion that there was more dancing going on out of sight; the “Fractions” film drove you wild as you tried to see all the choreography at once. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z

He was the surviving member of the magic duo Siegfried & Roy who entertained millions with illusions using rare animals. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

We fly into a time zone that is behind us and create the illusion of cheating time, of living a few hours of life twice. What does it really feel like to fall out of a building? 2013-05-25T22:30:00Z

It's the British character sentimentalised, the illusion of decency, that whole nonsense of 'no British boy would do this sort of thing'. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z

Q: Is it possible that this sense of freedom is an illusion? Actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, on his love letter to Texas 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

George Packer, the author and staff writer for The New Yorker, said he was under no illusions about the efficacy of signing his name to a letter like this. In Open Letter, 65 Writers and Artists Urge Trump to Reconsider Visa Ban 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Brooke Williams You Are Not So Smart Debunks the many myths and illusions we believe about ourselves. Internet picks of the week 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

Others include LEDs and mirrors configured to create the illusion of infinite regress. Art that looks expensive but ultimately is still just trash 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

You may see how advertisers exploit the intersection of time and illusion to sell their products. The illusions of advertising 2013-05-16T21:35:00Z

Starting with a Buddhist list of 12 types of illusion, Westerhoff mixes Tibetan and Indian parables with European philosophy and findings from modern psychology on unreliable perceptions. Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-19T00:06:01Z

The tenor of Tuesday night’s coverage proves that the illusion still holds. TV news learned nothing from 2016: Sports-style election coverage remains terrible and short-sighted 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Instead of using music to galvanize his supporters, or even create an illusion of communion, he danced to “My Way.” The incoherent music of Trumpism 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

“The illusion of desire has been lost in the ambience of reality television, and contemporary performance has lost the desire of illusion,” Mr. Harrell said on Saturday afternoon. Critic?s Notebook: Crossing the Line Festival 2011-09-20T21:15:12Z

I put it to Oppenheimer that, to some degree, the intimacy is therefore an illusion and the conversation, though sincere, must surely be shaped by the couple’s awareness of being filmed. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

For a white liberal, the book leaves many an illusion in tatters. How Racism Is Destroying America 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

Apart from a few grimy clips of film a century old, there's no means of judging how or why Houdini became the supreme, enduring icon of escapology and illusion. Harry Houdini: the sum of all amazements 2011-03-24T12:45:22Z

Optics had always been essential to his prestige brand, so it made a certain amount of sense that he relied upon an industry the sells illusions to help maintain his myth. Fashion Breaks Its Silence on Harvey Weinstein Scandal 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

The same illusion was employed in Mr. Takemitsu’s filigree violin concerto “Far calls. Coming, far!,” in which the solo line travels alongside another instrument for brief stretches, discovering and discarding common traits. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

If the left-eye and right-eye images are allowed to slip out of synchronization by even a couple of frames, the illusion is lost, headaches are induced, and audiences flee screaming into the streets. ?Classic 3-D,? Straight From ?50s, at Film Forum 2010-08-12T22:45:00Z

"Growing up in the Boroughs I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school." Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z

Their generation gap is apparent as Gastón continues: “It’s a hypnotic rhythm that turns you into a fool. It’s an illusion of freedom.” Whether Dancing or Still, the Body in ‘Ema’ Tells the Story 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

From this artistic and cultural epicenter, Van Eyck developed an unprecedented new painting style, which saw the flat signs of Gothic painting give way to exquisite illusions of bodies in real spaces. Jan Van Eyck’s Diamond-Hard Brilliance, as You’ll Never See It Again 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

If not: Wanda and Vision’s sitcom bliss is indeed an illusion. ‘WandaVision’ Lives Inside TV. Just Like We Do. 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Her character’s signature song, “I’m Here,” an assertion of emotional resilience, was the centerpiece of a show whose selections often focused on growing up and shedding illusions. Music Review: LaChanze Sings at the Allen Room - Review 2012-01-20T23:56:12Z

The impulses controlling it are still coming from my own brain, and that would surely ruin the illusion. 50 Shades of Grey matter: the psychology of sexual arousal 2012-08-08T12:01:00Z

Morey fell in love with the art of illusion as a 5-year-old in Bucks County, Pa., after seeing a magician on TV make a dollar bill appear inside a lemon. These Washington power players transform themselves into magicians one night a month 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

He is adept at orchestrating what he calls a “symphony of illusion,” a strategy to put potential assailants off-guard by keeping them guessing about just who he is. Review | Carolyn Forché’s most famous poem is a grisly look at a war-torn nation. Her memoir goes deeper. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Can it be that after years of practicing in frozen ice arenas, skaters become numb to the horrors of ostrich-feather trim, sequined ornament, Charlie Chaplin costumes or “nude” illusion effects? Fashion Diary: Let the Games Be Stylish 2010-02-20T00:42:00Z

Mr. Harris is giving a highly disciplined performance that has the graceful illusion of sometimes clumsy spontaneity. Theater Review: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Stars Neil Patrick Harris 2014-04-23T02:00:14Z

So seeing some of the performance strings is welcome — though too many of them and the illusion, for Dunne and Affleck, falls apart. Ben Affleck's 'Gone Girl' trailer showcases David Fincher spin on Flynn 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Jay is subtly destroyed, regret and resignation etched on her face, her naïve illusions of love shattered, in scene after scene as the force keeps coming. Maika Monroe: The thinking woman’s scream queen 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Indeed, many of this season's tweaks have producers' fingerprints on them, further degrading the illusion of natural spontaneity that made the first season so spectacular. Why is the third season of "Love Is Blind" so disappointing? Because we seen its type before 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

"I think people fantasize about a dating world where the rules and procedures are not ambiguous but that still has the illusion of choice," the writer Mikki Halpin told me. How "The Bachelor" hooked us -- again 2010-03-01T13:27:00Z

That movie’s fulsomely self-satisfied spew of rhetoric feeds exactly the kind of illusions that led to votes for Jill Stein. The 2017 Oscar Nominations Don’t Matter but the Movies Do, More Than Ever 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

At the time, that vision may have been a noble illusion, a projection of the progressive, problem-solving hopes of the culture. Arts & Leisure: Urban Realist With a Humanist Streak 2011-04-13T13:29:51Z

Complex and cerebral, Petite Mort is softened by beautifully drawn characters, lightly drizzled period detail and an abiding suspicion that love and cinema might be part of the same illusion. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-04-06T11:00:01Z

We all see, a hundred times a week, examples of mainstream editing seamlessly, invisibly reinforcing the illusion of dialogue between characters, each of whom occupies his or her own close-up. 'Hiroshima': An Uruguayan experiment that recalls the silent age of film 2011-01-13T21:08:06Z

We are under the illusion that we are transitioning to a better life. An Artist in Pursuit of Balance 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Twenty-six of his collection will be on display at Tate Britain, with 12 of them available to see through a special viewing device which creates the illusion of three dimensions. Queen star lends 3D photos to show 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

And sometimes they helped create the theatrical illusions. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

It lets us keep the illusion that we can forever embrace, and be embraced by, what is forever fading away. ‘The Keeper’ Reveals the Passion for Collecting 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

They show us the difference between the impenetrable, terrifying illusion and the gloriously flawed, human reality. Four Lions shows human face of terrorism 2010-05-09T11:00:00Z

Laurie Anderson's Smoke Rings, meanwhile, are of mirage, illusion and desire, a bewildering and enchanting meditation on a grand scale. Readers recommend: songs about circles – results 2012-08-09T12:04:00Z

Part of the book’s appeal — a side effect of its author’s smart, breezy, plain-spoken style — was that it offered readers the illusion of retroactive prescience. Review: In ‘The Big Short,’ Economic Collapse for Fun and Profit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The illusion of butter has really come a long way. Here’s how to enjoy a plant-based Mardi Gras without forgoing any of the fun 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

“I can’t say that I’m disappointed with France — I lost any illusions a very long time ago.” A French Deportee Life at Auschwitz and History Repeating 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Objects at the furthest range of his vision, he writes, seem “to quiver or be agitated until I have the illusion that I am being signaled to or winked at,” demanding attention be paid. Review | The relentlessly introspective vision of Gerald Murnane 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The feeling that everything is nailed down is an illusion. I can’t turn off my thoughts 2013-02-01T01:00:00Z

Transferring the elegant apparatus between them, they play with tension and release, at one point creating the strange illusion of sewing their bodies together. Review: A Taste of Seoul at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

"Speak of the Devil" soundly shatters that illusion. 'Daredevil' Episode 9 review: 'Speak of the Devil' -- It's a trap! 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

Their mission is to replace the “illusion of inclusion” in theater by reshaping its ecosystem — and priming its pipeline. Advocating and Agitating, Connecting and Inventing 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

In this take, the world of illusions is the gender binary. ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Review: Slipping Through Dreamland (Again) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

And let’s not forget that repeating stripes are among the hallmarks of midcentury abstraction, which used them almost invariably to expel spatial illusion from the canvas. Gianna Commito 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

We hold our illusions as unequivocal truths without seeing the other side of any argument, so much so that we are willing to fight the other in its defense. “Maya” in my America: Illusions of truth about art, culture and immigrant anger 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

But this triumphant feeling was an illusion, an act of rebellion that duped me into believing that I possessed control. The Nas generation of scholars: Finally, a Grammy for the hip hop artist who led me to liberation 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

He wants the flat-out truth, raw and bleeding, and hang all that illusion business. Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

While movie musicals hoped their lip-syncing created a naturalistic illusion, drag leaned into the artifice, building a commentary on the source material by challenging its gender norms. How Lip-Syncing Got Real 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Delusions of grandeur and illusions of the apocalypse cloud their vision. Donald Trump is the white boomers’ last gasp — believe it or not, the future looks brighter 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

What if our view of Cubism as an art of no illusions was … all an illusion? Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

The film opens on a new hire’s first day, but the young man’s illusions are quickly dashed when his new boss, a total gentleman at first glance, proves to be an inert leader. ‘Living’ Review: Losing His Inhibition 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The scenery and props are minimal, the dress is casual contemporary and theatrical exuberance is allowed to run roughshod over dramatic illusion. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Shaw's 'Saint Joan': A marathon for four actors, and the audience 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

His best work calls attention to the illusion of movies even as he stealthily perpetuates it. What Makes Kiarostami a Modern Master? Start Here 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Being someone who really just in my DNA and my bones just feel like the structures, just the whole makeup in which we live in is an illusion. HBO's "The Slow Hustle" director: "We're all carrying some level of mass grief as Black people" 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

At its finest, magic is a mixture of truth and illusion. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Amazing Jonathan Documentary’ and JoJo Siwa 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

By the time it appears in “The Bell Jar,” however, the dress is a symbol of dashed illusions, “a skimpy, imitation silver-lamé bodice stuck on to a big, fat cloud of white tulle.” Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z

This exhibition focuses primarily on the pop artist’s early years, when he pioneered Op Art — a movement that incorporated optical illusion into the visual arts canon — in South America. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

They are always alive to the paradox of picturing the world in two dimensions on a flat surface, but they reach beyond illusion every time. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z

An illusion that you’re wearing an eggshell, nerves encased in a thin layer of calcium. ‘I would pay $50 for a 2-minute hug’: True stories of sex starvation during self-quarantine 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

“I’m under no illusion that wearing a pair of four-year-old, ratty bike gloves to the grocery store is going to make me healthier,” says the 50-year-old from Oakland, Calif. Deep cleans and disinfecting mists might not keep us from getting the virus, but they sure make us feel better 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

As to what that means, Williams had few illusions; he understood what life demands. Poet Miller Williams dies at 84 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

One way or another, with illusions or without them, exhausted or fresh — we have been trained to die. Review: ‘Incident at Vichy,’ an Arthur Miller Tale Set in World War II 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Just below the glossy, appealing illusion of an outlaw life is the realization that Uday is the law, and no one can escape his bloody whims. 'The Devil's Double' captures horror of Hussein son's look-alike 2011-08-04T20:00:06Z

His God-given strength has turned out to be an illusion, and the supposedly indomitable warrior finds himself “Blind among enemies, O worse than chains.” Jeb! Agonistes: Being the sad and gruesome history of a frontrunner who never was and the GOP’s zombie apocalypse 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

In "Magic in the Moonlight," which opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, reality and illusion collide on the Cote d'Azur in the Roaring Twenties, when spiritualism and seances were in vogue. Woody Allen conjures up illusion for 'Magic in the Moonlight' 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

The wood and brick walls and jute roof don’t move, but the rocks shifting underfoot create the illusion of instability. Art In Review: HéLIO OITICICA: ‘Penetrables’ 2012-05-24T20:26:40Z

In his program note, he wrote of his interest in creating an aural illusion of forces larger than those on stage. Review: Philharmonic Ties New Threads to a Recent Premiere 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The tidiness of writing creates the illusion that speaking is a deliberate placement of words in sequence, like setting a table. The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

At its most basic, it confronts the issue that runs through all great American drama, from Eugene O'Neill onwards: the conflict between truth and illusion. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Tennessee Williams's southern discomfort 2012-09-30T19:00:11Z

Social media creates the illusion that we are somehow closer to our stars; the raw, everyday moments—or the illusion of them—shade in the personhood of a distant celebrity. The Goofy Charm of DJ Khaled’s “The Keys” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Few shows develop as convincing an illusion of family as “Medium” did over the years, and it was nice to see them signing off. ArtsBeat: 'Medium' Ends With Emotional Farewell 2011-01-24T19:44:17Z

But television and movies are based on illusion, whether it’s beauty created in the makeup chair or innocuousness devised and guarded by the press office. Critic’s Notebook: After Patriarch’s Outburst, ‘Duck Dynasty’ Is Back 2014-01-14T22:33:55Z

The images, each with a scrawled caption underneath, create the convincing illusion of a family album belonging to a clan of suburban, oafish monsters. Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s Sweetly Southern-Gothic Family Album 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Henson brings strength, radiance, precision, and presence to the gags and playful situations and to the drama, however mild it is; she lends the movie’s artifices a surprising illusion of substance. Review: Taraji P. Henson Redeems “What Men Want” 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

We are, they write, subject to all kinds of everyday illusions, including those produced by another phenomenon, “change blindness.” What You See Is What You Get 2011-07-09T04:13:03Z

I am not a psychologist, but both his words and actions reveal a man with dangerous illusions of grandeur. Ghazi al-Gosaibi obituary 2010-08-24T17:43:00Z

The polarization process that creates the illusion of 3D results in a darker image on the screen, making films less vibrant. 3D or not 3D? 2010-05-18T07:25:00Z

The value and fragility of illusions are, in fact, one of Guimarães' themes in "Borrowed Time." Spoiler alert! 'Borrowed Time' magic show will leave you astonished 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lee’s two novels both concern the loss of illusions, and public reaction to her books provide a window on America’s slow, stumbling efforts to grapple with racial inequality. In Harper Lee’s Novels, a Loss of Innocence as Children and Again as Adults 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

The music video was filmed in a Brooklyn lot, and shows the band members moving through a complicated set of optical illusions, which took almost three weeks to build, according to Rolling Stone. Watch OK Go’s new mind-bending video for “Writing on the Wall” 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Mary’s magic is charming in the early going, thanks to a nifty bit of illusion as she takes charge in the kids’ bedroom. A breezy Mary leads Olney’s ‘Poppins’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

Certain scenes feature spatially separated choirs, creating the illusion of depth and three-dimensional reality that was so important to verismo composers. Strauss’s ‘Elektra’ Sure Seems to Resemble Another Work 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The new “Run the Jewels 3,” is their most effective work, in part because it at least gives the illusion that they’re speaking to each other rather than shouting at the listener. Killer Mike and El-P sounds more together than ever on ‘Run the Jewels 3’ 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Camera angles, special effects and editing preserve the illusion that it is a pulchritudinous star leaping off a building or driving through a window rather than a man in drag. 'It's historical sexism' – the fight to end stuntmen doubling for women 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

At first, purging was just a handy tool to un-do the moments where I lost the illusion of self-control. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z

Well, I hate to be the salty old coot who breaks your illusion, but the Golden State is actually far more diverse than it appears from the outside. The chef cooking his way to a cannabis revolution: 'I'm a scientist at heart' 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

In these instances there was little if any theatrical illusion or separation of audience and performers, resulting in a greater sense of process and reality. Critic?s Notebook: Performa 11 Is Bigger but Not Better 2011-11-25T23:51:33Z

The tactic's goal is to create the illusion that a show or TV series is a creative bomb by intentionally depressing their audience ratings with a barrage of one-star reviews or their equivalent. Let's all stop ignoring The Fandom Menace. It's real, and it's winning 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s like this weird optical illusion, I guess, where it does feel like suddenly now I’m beginning to be on this quest — and in fact, I was always on it,” she said. Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Album Tackles a Newer Archive: Her Own 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

You may recall Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup as a meditation on illusion and decadence; or, to put it in Zagatese: "'Forget Austin Powers,' baby, 'this is the real swinging London'." Zag-At the Movies: "Real People" Pick Their "Best Films" 2010-10-21T16:10:00Z

But it is also an illusion of efficiency. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

It was a collection of separate sets on a soundstage, edited with exterior footage to synthesize the illusion of a warm, groovy midcentury home. On TV, You Can Go Home Again. But It’s Weird. 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Refusing to speak of the country they left, Nero sets up his family in a grand mansion — a “palace of illusions” — in the Gardens Historic District of Greenwich Village. Salman Rushdie launches a novelistic attack on Trump 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Culling my book collection gave me the illusion of control. Perspective | Clutter, says who? College essays, letters from Stephen King and Tucker Carlson: I’m keeping (almost) all of it. 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

It wasn't the guy with the top hat and the rabbits, it was a way of creating illusions that something was real that wasn't. JJ Abrams: 'I called Spielberg and he said yes' 2011-08-01T19:30:01Z

It fits, because most of “Sex and Rage” seems to be about the difficulty of pulling off that It Girl illusion too. 'Sex and Rage' have always been the territory of the It Girl 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Fitzgerald gives Gatsby connections to the sporting underworld, the backroom dealers who helped to throw the 1919 World Series, to show that in other aspects of his life Gatsby has no illusions. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Praised for the self-assurance he had shown at the book event, Mr. Echols said it was all an illusion. After Jail and Release, New Fame as an Author 2012-09-23T21:51:29Z

Apparently the museum determined that “Grand Illusion” needed a grand illusion to lure people, so one of its most unusual works was supersized. Review: ‘Grand Illusions’ Showcases Deceptive Photography 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

As a soloist, Mr. Stetson creates illusions of multitude with his exacting control of circular breathing, multiphonics and singing through his horns while playing. Music Review: Colin Stetson and Brooklyn Youth Chorus at Merkin Hall 2014-03-24T22:28:40Z

When it comes to melody instruments, complex linear sequences are meant to create the illusion of polyphony. The L.A. music scene as seen through Berio's Sequenzas 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

No intimacy coordinators were involved on set — in the early 2000s, the profession was nonexistent — but the scene was actively rehearsed, with all the actors’ movements mapped out to create the illusion of a beating. Twenty Years Later, ‘Irreversible’ Still Shocks 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

This is writing that devours its own illusions, that requires us to stare eternity, with its sharp incisors, in the face. Denis Johnson had ruthless honesty and transcendent power 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

When the decade ends, so will so many of the illusions that sustained it. The TV Watch: ‘Mad Men’ Returns to AMC on Sunday. 2014-04-10T12:00:01Z

Perhaps to maintain the illusion that he needed nothing more than his house of windows, the Brick House was rarely shown in photos of its more-famous neighbor. | Events: Saving Philip Johnson?s Brick House 2011-10-12T22:45:07Z

More germane is the aesthetic inspiration the essay provides for his stagecraft, which emphasizes illusions that are low-tech but all the more poetic for their simplicity. Theater Review: ‘Shun-kin,’ Japanese Intrigue, at Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-10T21:58:34Z

Some of the pieces’ visual illusions mark new territory for Warashina. Savage style: two artists who tackle serious subjects with eccentric wit 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

The rock is to rest on two lips that extend partly over the slot from each side of the cut, to help create the illusion that it is hovering in space. Los Angeles County Museum Moves a 340-Ton Rock 2011-10-07T12:00:00Z

“Every boundary is an illusion, constructed in order to becalm us, in order to give us the impressions of a definite place,” he has written. Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Compared with today, tennis of the 1970s looks a leisurely, almost sub-aqua affair, but any difference in overall quality is also a technologically induced illusion. Game, set and spats… a grand slam of tennis movies 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

The illusion of agelessness is a tenuous one at best, easily shattered by a favorite lyric or memorable hook. Review: Nostalgia powers dazzling Red Hot Chili Peppers show in Seattle 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

To construct an illusion for ourselves that we have brought order to chaos. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z

He’s under no illusion that he will persuade Bee to embrace his brand of libertarianism. Glenn Beck wants to heal the America he divided — one hug at a time 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

The sets, designed by Ms. Chaplin, are among the show’s best features, heightening the ambiguity of illusion. Theater Review: ‘Murmurs’ Brings Slapstick to the Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-26T20:44:14Z

Pursuit of novelty may be one of fashion’s most durable illusions. Fashion Diary: Places, Everyone! Take the Usual Places. 2010-02-17T21:10:00Z

The format doesn’t work, but the illusions do. 'Wizard Wars,' on Syfy, Lets Magicians Compete 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

He was a squat man with the regulation moustache, and he wore a twill zipped jacket with a tartan lining peeping from under it; as if to say, forget your sunshine illusions. Winter Break 2010-12-04T00:05:00Z

They appear to dispense with illusion — no sets or costumes, just a singer and a pianist — but they are not necessarily more real for it. Critic’s Notebook: Lincoln Center Screens Bygone Lieder Performances 2014-02-07T22:15:35Z

Each author gets a fair crack of the whip, with their own cover and top-billing, and the illusion of two separate books makes a head-to-tail volume seem somehow to be good value. T?te-b?che books make a speculative return 2011-07-28T10:57:58Z

But the novel never feels anything less than captivating because Winman creates such a flawless illusion of spontaneity, an atmosphere capable of sustaining these characters’ macabre wit, comedy of manners and poignant longing. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1934 play about lost illusions, this musical held onto the central stunt of tracing its characters’ fortunes from their jaded present to their idealistic past. Theater Review: Sondheim?s ?Merrily We Roll Along? in Encores! Staging 2012-02-09T23:44:16Z

With nobody under any illusions nowadays that mixing up a large amount of sugar in a hefty pot of red wine is good for anyone's health, we find other similarly absurd excuses to partake. How mulled wine went from ancient medicine to an Aussie winter warmer 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Indeed, some of these moments may not even have involved nudity at all, since some shows use pixiliation to create the illusion of nudity even when performers are clothed. Is There an Epidemic of Nudity on Primetime TV? 2013-06-10T17:18:38Z

The singer knows that her love is a hopeless illusion, and pretty as the music is in the moment, it can’t stave off the inevitable. Beauty Confronts Doom on Grimes’s ‘Miss Anthropocene’ 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

It’s a reflection on the power of TV to create illusions. ‘The Curse’ Review: People Who Live in Glass Houses 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

Usually, though, Ms. Gerring’s movement is about itself, not inviting us to find imagery or illusions. Review: Liz Gerring’s ‘Horizon,’ Exuberantly Athletic, Has Its Premiere 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

They can initially look playful and even haphazard, but with a little time, a rigorous consideration of painting as object, illusion and process emerges. Museum & Gallery Listings for March 18-24 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

But if you subtract those geographic indicators, these cynical stories of humble people embracing absurd illusions illustrate the universal impulse to believe in a better future, no matter what. | 'The Optimists': Best of All Possible Worlds: When Life Gives You Mud, Take a Mud Bath 2011-07-27T22:21:43Z

“He belted his pants high, wore a well-worn leather belt, to accentuate his height — or give the illusion of very long legs,” Mr. Speliopoulos said. Nino Cerruti Gave Elegance a Good Name 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

As to any illusions you might have about the permanence of where you lay your hat, well, just remember that anything that can be assembled can be leveled even more quickly. Review: Dreaming of ‘Home,’ With a Magical Guide in His Underwear 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

A little bit of everything is going on in the work of Portland artist Katherine Ace: computer manipulation, painterly illusion, visual and textual collage, even a variation on time travel. Ingenious artist Katherine Ace shows work at Seattle's Woodside/Braseth Gallery 2010-09-22T23:13:00Z

Creators like to shake things up, even if it's only temporary, even if it's only the illusion of change. Comics: What's up with Superman's renouncing his U.S. citizenship? 2011-05-10T21:05:05Z

He is, after all, a professional philosopher, and his training tells him that what cannot be translated into plain words is nothing but sophistry and illusion. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z

“Nitrous, in the early days, produces some kind of insight, or the illusion of insight into consciousness.” Nitrous Nation 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

The very truthfulness of photography made it a perfect technology when it came to the art of illusion. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z

“Life is forcing us to abandon traditional stereotypes and outdated views, and free ourselves from illusions,” he said. Rereading Jean Rhys and Re-evaluating Margaret Thatcher 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

But let's be under no illusion that by and large the remake business is a cynical money-making exercise. The Death at a Funeral remake should have died an early death 2010-04-16T11:16:00Z

“The mind is left to create the illusion of what was taking place,” Mr. Gray said. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum’s Fraught Task: To Tell the Truth 2012-06-02T16:26:23Z

It is nice to get away from the illusion that the recording studio is able to bring. Playing by Johnny Marr’s rules: “I love living in the modern world, but I just don’t accept a laptop as being a band member” 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Or was it substance abuse, inexpert driving, mindless acquiescence to group stupidity, illusions of immortality, naivete about peers . Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Waves of anxiety over an 18-year-old’s coed beach trip 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Jimmy's illusions died last week when his girlfriend, Pearl, shot herself after being disfigured by one of Sheridan's thugs. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Everyone's screwed 2010-10-25T05:01:00Z

“M. Butterfly,” the play, always had ambiguity and illusion at its core, and this operatic version tries to break down binaries still further, especially through Song’s character. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

At first she was a nameless figure, a personification of an ideal, then a lost illusion resurrected in real human flesh. Books of The Times: ‘Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame’ by Ty Burr 2012-09-23T18:07:45Z

Cable news networks such as CNN and Fox News, for instance, use long-established conventions to create the illusion that we are watching news. Review | This is not the Magritte we know 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Her delight in layered illusion and her mischievous humor are evident throughout the show. Ingenious artist Katherine Ace shows work at Seattle's Woodside/Braseth Gallery 2010-09-22T23:13:00Z

There was a gravitational pull that promised unprecedented visibility to the queer individual and the illusion of self-determination in how one might be seen by others. There’s a lot more to a selfie than meets the eye 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

You could, of course, argue that branding and the ability to leverage illusions are valuable skills themselves. Review: ‘The Confidence Man’ Finds Trump’s Business Image Was Made for TV 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Clive, Walt talks about the “illusion of perfection” that handymen create. “Parenting isn’t safe, it’s challenging”: Clive Owen on building trust with his young “Confirmation” co-star 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

But the idea that anything is apolitical is an illusion accessible only to a very few. 'Gwyneth glows like a radioactive swan' – my day at the Goop festival 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

He’ll be speaking to me about art’s awful, beautiful illusions, which deceive only to reveal, for as long as I live. Recalling the Eloquent Loneliness of the Playwright Brian Friel 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

You have these illusions of eternity, of never-ending life. 10 Hours Gives Us (Almost) All of Schumann’s Songs 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

This is a classic Ivanka equivocation — denouncing evil in the abstract yet continuing to maintain the illusion that she is helpless to fight it — but she’s hardly alone. White people calling for “unity”: Your good intentions aren’t enough 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

On the tour, learn how Wright employed such money- and space-saving strategies as using less expensive gum wood and installing 33 windows to create the illusion of roominess. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

All the color shapes are mostly organic, but the stretched canvas and the optical illusion are geometric. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Miss Duval creates completely the illusion of a woman distraught, pleading and at least desolated.” Denise Duval, French Soprano and Foremost Poulenc Interpreter, Dies at 94 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Yet there’s not even an illusion of balance here — no additional viewpoints, competing or complementary, are given serious consideration. Review: ‘The Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers’ Tackles Israeli History 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Hinduism itself stresses the pervasive power of maya or illusion. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

When read aloud, they create the illusion of a conversation between you and the prerecorded performer. When the Critic Is Also the Star. And the Audience. 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

When Thompson plays his guitar, he creates the illusion that at least four hands, maybe six, are working the strings. Concert review: Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Richard Thompson at Symphony Center 2013-03-21T06:25:00Z

Piglia’s “delusion of living in the third person” to “avoid the illusion of an interior life” transmogrifies us as well, into the character of the reader, and “that feeling is priceless.” Notebooks From an Argentine Master, and Other Works of South American Literature 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

He knows that cars are essentially illusion factories — to wit: “Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.” Art Review: Landscapes Framed by a Chevy 2010-09-02T22:45:00Z

"It was December 2008 when we landed in Seattle with our bags full of illusions and energy," said the farewell email I just received. Taberna del Alabardero says adios (for now), Seattle 2011-06-02T00:34:05Z

As for that chatter in the kitchen, it tends to involve subjects like whether time is only an illusion. Review: ‘Antlia Pneumatica,’ With Voices in the Dark 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

JS: Yeah, we created the illusion of a chicken exploding on stage. The Black Lips play Name That Garage Tune! 2011-08-18T20:59:01Z

Each print plays upon different kinds of image: silhouette, shadow, reflection, illusion, reality, the eye having to play hide and seek to find the meaning of a scene. Kitagawa Utamaro 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

When the news reveals that one such dude “might have been a creep at Yale,” she added, “it doesn’t shatter any illusions.” The Long Decline of DKE, Brett Kavanaugh’s Fraternity at Yale 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

“Without the photographic aspect,” he said, “the illusion would never be able to exist. The miniatures themselves would not hold up.” A Lifelike Version of Nature, but Not to Scale 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Both actors excel at conveying their characters’ doubts and illusions about themselves, so that our sympathy keeps ping-ponging between them as they describe the paths that brought them together. Sex, consent, gender, race: A potent cocktail in 'Actually' 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

While many stadium acts succeed by creating the illusion of intimacy, Muse always remain somewhat remote. Muse – review 2012-10-01T11:35:50Z

In a 1999 special, he even ridiculed airport security as a pointless charade, saying Americans are “always willing to trade away a little of their freedom” in exchange for “the illusion of security.” A George Carlin Special Too Raw After Sept. 11 Resurfaces Now 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

Its stars have no illusions that their celebrity is any more permanent than a spray-on tan. Stars of MTV’s ‘Snooki & JWoww’ Enjoy the Attention 2012-06-27T12:00:00Z

And during the Project’s impressive run at the charts in the 1970s and 1980s, Parsons conjured up musical illusions at nearly every turn. Alan Parsons, prog rock Prospero? 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

But that explanation suggests a series of nested questions about who is perceiving that illusion of selfhood. As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

We grab hold of any behaviour that offers relief by providing even an illusion of control. Compulsive behaviour? It may make more sense than you think 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

One of the most powerful illusions encouraged by popular art is that its creators are people the rest of us know. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Inside the theater, a film crew was working hard to manufacture the illusion. In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Neither are aflame in each other's presence for enough time to allow the audience to form any illusions about love lost. Amazon's gloomy "A Very British Scandal" divorce tale starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

Alternate your baubles and neckwear to create the illusion of a new outfit — the magic of deft packing. Tips on how to travel light without sacrificing comfort and style 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Comparing himself to a magician, he says: “He gives you the illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of an illusion.” Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

A combination of design and under-the-hood mathematics creates the illusion that players are free to blaze their own paths and change the world. Reviews: Tomodachi Life; Divinity: Original Sin; Shovel Knight; and Civilization: Revolution 2 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

The photographs’ renderings of frames within frames create surprisingly persuasive pop-up illusions. Chris Engman’s photographic illusions dazzle 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

Its blank background and disdain for illusion are miles away from the floral profusion of “Jeanne.” Manet’s Last Years: A Radical Embrace of Beauty 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Though the “film professes an interest in lofty questions of illusion and reality, simple trickery remains its prime concern,” Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times. DVD: Chopin, Schubert and Dietrich (the Latter Nude) 2011-06-03T17:11:56Z

We should have learned that these perfect simple systems are illusions. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z

Her woven tapestry with an abstraction of concentric circles, embedded into the curvature of the architecture, provides an illusion of the infinite. Buffalo Remakes its Museum in its Own Image 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

“At some point,” he writes in the introduction of “Haifa Republic,” “one must admit that the two-state dream has faded into a two-state illusion. Ignoring this fact is akin to denying global warming.” Finding New Ways to Write About and Grapple With Israel 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

In some places, going to extreme measures to maintain even the false illusion of a youthful face must seem like the most natural thing in the world. Motherlode Blog: It’s Harder to Age in Hollywood. Where Is It Harder to Raise Kids? 2014-03-04T22:03:21Z

Were you making any obvious illusions to the country that shares her name? "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

In fact, it was all illusion; the pants were entirely embroidered. On the Runway Blog: Chanel: Giving Some Soul 2012-07-03T21:43:43Z

For anyone seated at stage level, just feet from the bounding ballerinas, there was no illusion of ethereal levity here. A bubbly mix of Balanchine, Astaire from American Contemporary Ballet 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Striking that elusive balance between the illusion of total narrative anarchy and an underlying sense of order requires delicacy and discipline. How True Blood's supernatural hedonism changed genre television 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

The smaller Rothko room will sometimes offer you the fleeting illusion that these paintings are yours. Two rooms, 14 Rothkos and a world of difference 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

But the flower shower was an illusion because the clothes, with their mesh hose, leather corsetry and dangling vertical fringes, suggested tough chic. Fashion Review: A Graphic View of the '80s 2012-09-28T17:28:20Z

Action, too, suffers in the format, because rapid horizontal movements mess with the illusion and fast-paced edits in 3-D tend to wear a viewer out. The Misunderstanding of 3-D 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Reading Proust, one is almost by definition declaring one's readiness to dispense with the illusion of narrative in one's concept of living. A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard – review 2013-04-12T07:13:00Z

Each conversation provided me with the illusion of floating, even briefly, into the slipstream of someone else’s life. QuarantineChat Brings Back Spontaneity (and Distraction) 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Aside from the occasional jet overhead and the whine of a Vespa, the illusion of classical antiquity was nearly complete. Echoes From the Roman Ghetto 2013-07-12T17:36:12Z

It was during my early, rose-tinted days in Italy, so my food illusions were mostly undented – until that place, with stickers on the door and an industrious nonna in the kitchen. Rachel Roddy’s recipe for tomato, potato and aubergine stew 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

This year, J. Hoberman wrote in The New York Times that “few popular movies are so predicated on sudden death and irrevocable loss, while still offering the promise — or illusion — of hope.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘No Man’s Land’ and ‘God’s Own Country’ 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

“Meaning that’s an illusion which I will allow you to get into.” Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'When you see The Revenant you will say "Wow"' 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

So I think it's giving Lisa the illusion of responsibility and "I'm fine and I'm doing great," and so she needs to come to the realization that that is not the case. Nicole Maines talks "Yellowjackets" 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

But in the most cramped spaces, Simpson still sometimes employs an illusion. London Theatergoers Are on the Edge of His Seats 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

We also have this illusion that if I work from home I'm going to be more productive because I don't have to commute, and I don't have the water cooler situation. Embrace doing nothing, especially if you're working from home 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Having been bitterly disappointed by her own fate, she believes Ginger offers her daughter only the illusion of choices and the promise of failure and heartbreak. Mary Gaitskill takes on race, class and motherhood in her new novel 'The Mare' 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

On “24” family was regarded as an impossible illusion, but here the preservation of domestic serenity is sacrosanct. Critic?s Notebook: Good Guy Up Against the Aliens and Sheen 2011-03-06T23:03:34Z

The show, mostly anecdotes and card tricks, considers themes of isolation and connection and the differences among fact, fiction and illusion. Is the Hand Quicker Than the Zoom Window? 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

The realization that the security they felt at home was just an illusion breaks the family apart. Women Write of Home, and a Woman’s Place in It 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Billy Strayhorn was only 16 when he wrote the majority of Lush Life, yet it's a brilliant tale of failed romances and lives wasted in the mistaken pursuit of illusions. Readers recommend: songs about mistakes ? the results 2010-12-09T23:02:00Z

In reality, there was a tarpaulin in place to catch him, but he had removed it in the doctored photograph to give the illusion of a miraculous, or possibly suicidal, flight. The Week Ahead: May 23 ? 29 2010-05-20T20:56:00Z

Its slightly down-at-the-heel quality was therefore an illusion, and a very private joke appreciated by a few. Fashion Review: Couture Is Fun but Not for All 2012-07-06T17:45:23Z

Above all, the movie confronts a political and historical paradox that exerts its distorting force in French laws and mores: the illusion of color blindness that’s central to the French national self-image. “Ouvrir la Voix”: A Radically Frank Documentary About the Experience of Black Women in France 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The ancient Greeks made their columns bulge out slightly about a third of the way up to correct for the optical illusion of concavity — a technique known as entasis. Washington National Cathedral goes under the microscope

One is the illusion and simulation and the other is the actual physical, skin-on-skin experience.” Damien Jurado, out with a new album, says goodbye to Seattle with a show at St. Mark’s 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

The show then pogo-sticks back, a few years at a time, in search of Frank’s early dreams and illusions — on the events that soured him on life and his friends on him. A Sondheim Musical Rolls Back to Life 2012-02-15T16:40:10Z

“There’s a finite amount of media the filmmaker creates, which he slices and dices to give the illusion of control while at the same time guiding the viewer through the underlying blueprint,” he said. ‘Black Mirror’ Gives Power to the People 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

And some of them think the rest of us are living an illusion. A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough – review 2013-05-10T14:00:02Z

That doesn’t make it an illusion, or meaningless. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z

Like all enchanted isles, the Academy Awards derives its magic from illusion. An Oscars-Night Diary 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

Drugs can create the illusion of happiness, but once they wear off, the feeling of isolation and coldness and sadness is hard to shake. "Somebody's got to wear the leather pants": Rick James doc filmmaker on the infamous rock star 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

But “In the Middle” brought together Mr. Forsythe’s brilliantly innovative rethinking of ingrained balletic conventions — about balance, weight, effort, line, presentation, illusion and gender — with theatrical panache, and it catapulted him into the international spotlight. Critic’s Notebook: William Forsythe Revival at Paris Opera Ballet 2012-12-28T21:15:47Z

An architecturally influenced column dress from Anne Barge features illusion V-side cutouts and a square open back. What We Saw at New York Bridal Fashion Week 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

This gave her the illusion of more limbs, making her look like a strange pagan goddess of intolerance and hate. Comic-Con report: Geeks vs. fundamentalist Christians 2010-07-23T15:12:00Z

As his nameless narrator walks through Harlem, Ellison floods our senses with impressionistic images, illusions that never quite resolve into tangible form. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Copperfield, whose real name is David Kotkin, is famed for illusions including making the Statue of Liberty disappear and walking through the Great Wall of China. Former teen model accuses magician Copperfield of sexual assault 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

The illusion is created by a photo-realistic replica of a Victorian terraced house, built flat on the ground, with a vast mirrored surface suspended at 45 degrees above it. Dalston House: the building that lets you defy gravity 2013-06-26T06:00:04Z

As he drifted off, I was aware that there was no longer any illusion that we all matched. Finding God in a Hot Slice of Pizza 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

In fact, “the illusions, delusions, the abstractions of art and lunacy . . . all spring from a few cells that were rearranged by a mistake but remain physical cells. With mass.” ‘Where My Heart Used to Beat’: Sebastian Faulks’s latest foray into war 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

The float-trip lottery system insures that tens of thousands of people get to paddle the river every year, under the illusion that they are utterly alone. The Grand Canyon Needs to Be Saved By Every Generation 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

But I’m not under the illusion that many people care. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

These five-pocket leggings will not leave the wearer with the illusion that she is naked, which is the aim of many of the brand’s classic offerings. Analysis | Returning to the office means wearing fancy clothes again. Or at least nicer leggings. 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

It is the illusion that nothing bad will ever happen and that we are perfectly fine. Should I offer to help? 2013-04-10T00:00:00Z

A century after Lev Kuleshov's famous early-cinema experiments in how editing the same face with different shots triggers the illusion of discrete emotions, we might as well be pawns all over again. 'White God' gives the child-dog fable a thrilling twist 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. Ang Lee talks about risks, spirituality of "Life of Pi" 2012-11-23T23:19:21Z

It’s an illusion, and frankly, I’m tired of trying to fit everyone else’s expectations of what a perfect black guy should be. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z

“Iris will sleep deeply. Later we listen to carols and Christmas music. And I have the illusion, which fortunate Alzheimer’s partners must feel at such times, that life is just the same, has never changed.” John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Swirling figures and trilled melodies, for example, give parts of the score the illusion of an almost chordal sound. Music Review | St. Luke?s Chamber Ensemble: A ?Magical History Tour? on 2 Routes 2010-03-04T22:57:00Z

One man attempts to describe an illusion by running around in circles making frightened goose noises. Dynamo: Magician Impossible – now that's magic 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z

But rising to a director’s call for “beautiful lines” and the illusion of spontaneity takes choreographic chops. For an Alicia Keys Video, Choreographing Spontaneity 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Once the mutant lyrics stopped blooming in Young Thug’s verses so frequently, the illusion of looseness that his music created became a real looseness. Perspective | I was wrong about Young Thug 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Irene is the epitome of a theater kid — a talented one at that, and an expert fainter — but her ability to sustain an illusion seems to extend to her worldview as well. ‘A Radiant Girl’ Review: Coming of Age in Paris, 1942 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

Farrell creates the illusion that his characters are telling the story in their own words and in their own time, and as a result they stay with you well beyond the final page. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z

Artists also construct their own unreal worlds: strange, gorgeous, eccentric, sometimes overwhelming illusions. Intimacy Is Overrated: Concerts in the Livestream Era 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

This creates a paradoxical illusion: It looks like a two-dimensional rendering, but it’s in three dimensions. Art Review: ‘Lightness of Being’ Group Show at City Hall Park 2013-08-22T22:01:07Z

This open acknowledgment of editing tricks serves to dispel the very illusion that Foster Wallace bemoaned some 20-odd years ago. Watching “The Real Housewives” with David Foster Wallace: Why reality TV is good for America, after all 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Deftly, the film shifts focus from Raducan’s disqualification to the entrenched injustices of Olympic sports, with their outsized pressures and brittle illusions of meritocracy. ‘The Golden Girl’ Review: A Lose-Lose Proposition 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

As much as we may be amused or even enthralled by such spectacles, it’s become a point of honor to know that they’re only illusions. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

This includes projecting images in front of riders and using 3D glasses or VR goggles to complete the illusion. The one thing you won't find too much of at Disney World 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Instead, the American film-makers P David Ebersole and Todd Hughes have created an unorthodox account of the world of Hollywood gossip and illusion. Siren, satanist or comic genius? The myths of Jayne Mansfield 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z

“A Hologram for the King” ponders a modern world in the thrall of illusions. Review: ‘A Hologram for the King’ Is Elevated by Tom Hanks’s Portrayal of an American Everyman 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Unlike Degas, who represented the world of dance and opera without entirely dismantling the theatrical illusion, Lautrec puts the viewer in the middle of the fray. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Crawling under her weight — and it’s lovely to see Ms. Whelan, so light, give the illusion of being so heavy — he tilts her back up to standing. Review: Chasing Wildness, and Sometimes Catching It 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

But the illusion of entitlement persisted even into the Thatcher era, and this is where the St. Aubyn books resonate beyond the man who is their subject. Patrick Melrose and the Fall of the English Élite 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

I'd be more comfortable with the phrase "scalpel job", since a review, however unflattering, should be closer to dissection than hackwork, but I have no illusions about it catching on. Adam Mars-Jones: 'The only bad review is one whose writing is soggy' 2012-02-10T13:50:00Z

“Undercover Boss” is a working-class fantasy that bursts its own illusions. 2010-02-06T07:37:00Z

"The entire movie is illusion against reality. It's Ronald Colman becoming 'Othello' and the whole artifice of the theater and that society, transposed against the Shelley Winters character who is really down and out." Ronald Colman's 'Double Life' role carries echos of 'Birdman' theme 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Here, the dancers and musicians, on bass, piano and drums, explore an intimate space of desire and illusion that is heightened by their proximity. 10 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

His universal shtick is an illusion, the most potent and inventive artist of this mad, frothy era  That era will come to an end. A shiny poem for Jeff Koons -- assembled from his Whitney reviews 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

As he is radicalized, his eloquence, his charisma and his knowledge of Scripture become weapons deployed against his oppressors, and the relative kindness of the white Turners proves to be an illusion. Review: In Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Must-See and Won’t-See Collide 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Then, breaking with the illusion for a while, he hauled the light wooden boxes back onboard so other children could have a turn. Museum Review: Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum Reopens With New Exhibits 2012-07-03T21:40:13Z

It’s hard to get a footing and an illusion of damage, possibly in progress, is pervasive. Art in Review: Yamini Nayar: ‘An Axe for a Wing-bone’ 2013-12-05T21:41:19Z

Now high streets are shrinking and so is the illusion of a just balance of north and south. The Tate of the nation 2011-07-14T12:09:53Z

It gives the illusion of a complete reveal. Review: ‘Not That Kind of Girl,’ by Lena Dunham

In other drawings, Murrow crafts cunning illusions within illusions. 3 don’t-miss gallery shows around Seattle, May edition 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

The mannequins are as real as anything else in the paintings, whose essential subject is the flickering charm of illusion. In the galleries: Artists illustrate the evolving principles of geometric painting 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

In ballet, pointe, a term derived from “sur la pointe” — or on the tip of the toe — is how dancers convey the illusion of flight or weightlessness. Hiplet: An Implausible Hybrid Plants Itself on Pointe 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

I’m hardly a renegade now, however, so why did I harbor the illusion that as I get older I will somehow throw off the shackles of propriety? What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The most crucial point: Saying that life and morality and reason and virtue and emotions such as grief are physical processes – this is not the same as saying they are illusions. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z

As a former Muslim and current fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, she lends an illusion of street cred to all manner of egregious “free-market” worship, global warming denial, and Western aggression. Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z

They also emphasize the illusion of representational painting. In the galleries: Wells & Barnes offer many seats, but no place to sit down 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

From flex, he also developed the illusion of floating and gliding. Storyboard P: Where Is the Place for a Genius of Street Dance? 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

We see the girls’ illusions crumble as they consider the common ground between lurid sexual exploitation and quieter, more insidious predation. A Bold Concert of Songs and a Potent Play Leave Audiences Abuzz 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

On the back wall, a mirror created the illusion of space, though I did spook myself a few times with my reflection. On a Baltic Sea cruise, board in Sweden and wake up in Latvia — then do it in reverse 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stone’s old-fashioned grooves are a studio illusion. Review: Allen Stone Keeps His Distance From Modern Music in ‘Radius’ 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

It also fosters the illusion that an artist is delving deeper and deeper into a kind of creative essence. Review | How one abstract artist refuses to be boxed in 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Eva, for example, yearns for her grandmother to take her in and has no illusions that her mother will recover from her addiction to alcohol. ‘A House Made of Splinters’ Review: Home Is Where the Hope Is 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Blending notions from the disparate sources seamlessly, “Fama” is rife with textural passages involving public image and self-appraisal, wedded to fiercely original music that bolsters impressions of reflection, illusion and distortion. Music Review: Talea Ensemble and Ekmeles at the Czech Center 2013-05-17T22:02:36Z

As Liszt did in the 19th century, Mr. Kenney has been expanding on the melodies of popular songs — “Thank U, Next,” “Blue” — with elaborate accompaniment that creates a Bachian illusion of polyphony. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

In other words, when we privilege capital—or the illusion of such—above all, a woman’s gains are measurable only insofar as her body and labor retain market value. Lessons of "Generation Wealth": In an age of excess, women lose 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

On a late November morning, the laid-back version of Sharon Van Etten serving coffee from a thermos at a quiet kitchen table was both a miracle and an illusion. The Many Lives of Sharon Van Etten 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

They are the tools he will use to create his own illusions. Man to Man 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Their two-dimensional counterparts — still common in television, for now — are by contrast rooted in millenniums of image-making, modes of representation, graphic symbolism, systems of spatial illusion or spatial compression, from cave paintings to comix. Welcome to a land of enchantment in 'Over the Garden Wall' 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Almodóvar’s sense of cinema design — the décor simulates a luxe apartment and lays it bare as a soundstage illusion — is acutely keyed to Swinton’s performance here, which projects mercurial emotion with Swiss watch precision. ‘The Human Voice’ Review: Almodóvar Meets Cocteau Meets Swinton 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

It attempts to make him face up to the human condition as it really is, to free him from illusions that are bound to cause constant maladjustment and disappointment. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

The results are not so much paintings as crisp, flat objects devoid of spatial illusion. Critic’s Notebook: Ellsworth Kelly, on View in New York 2013-06-03T21:57:28Z

If anything was liable to break the illusion for UK audiences, it was the sight of Captain Jack Harkness sharing a lift with Tony Soprano. Oscars 2013: six memorable cameo performances 2013-02-22T07:00:00Z

The human puppets are rendered realistically—in proportion, expression, and anatomy—and depart from the illusion only slightly, with several mechanical seam lines in the face. The Condescending Compassion of Charlie Kaufman’s “Anomalisa” 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement The autism pandemic, in other words, is an optical illusion, one brought about by an original sin of diagnostic parsimony. ‘NeuroTribes,’ by Steve Silberman 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

One of the essences of an actor’s ability to create an illusion is to show you have time to make a decision. ‘Les Misérables’ on Film, Cameron Mackintosh’s Dream 2012-12-22T20:56:53Z

Like several recent films on Israel, including “Wrestling Jerusalem” and “Rabin in His Own Words,” “In the Land of Pomegranates” holds no illusions about a quick end to the conflicts there. Review: ‘In the Land of Pomegranates’ Asks if Mideast Peace Is Possible 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Part of what gives the illusion of transparency at Pepsi are the wide bays, with those huge windows that create this seamless skin. Classic Skyscrapers Define New York. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

It has no illusions, least of all about the ones we use to maintain our innocence. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

A concoction of glitter balls, mirrors and gilded helium balloons add to the sense of magic and illusion. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

The greatest illusion, however, was to give a very clear suggestion that it was Leigh being hacked to death, by Anthony Perkins as a cross-dressing maniac. Secrets of the Psycho shower 2010-03-29T21:00:00Z

"Here you have an illusion of rubbing shoulders with the stars," continues Vicki, insisting she didn't really kiss Hamilton. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z

But it was scary in those dialogue-free moments, because the covenant with illusion that we all make when we go to the theater had been broken. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Good Glitch, Bad Glitch 2011-02-10T17:42:16Z

“Breaking Bad” is an intensely moral show with no illusions about Walter’s depravity. ‘Saul’ Great, Man 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

Then again, Korins says, “a lot of the set function is less illusion than gags. Almost anything that happens magically is for a laugh.” The creators of the ‘Beetlejuice’ musical ‘tried to run toward Burton’ visually 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

But the behind-the-scenes talk, along with needless reminders of how difficult current circumstances are, keeps squelching the illusion. La MaMa Festival Is Still Moving, if Somewhat in Place 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

Krapp devised a similar illusion at the Imperial Theater on 45th Street. Broadway Is Shuttered but Its Buildings Sing: A Virtual Tour 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

But that painting’s wink at the illusion of depth is just as integral to “Trove,” Kuijper’s show at Studio Gallery. In the galleries: A debate between red and blue at Charles Krause

But this predictability is an illusion, because at any moment, the whole reassuring framework could collapse. My favourite Hitchcock: North by Northwest 2012-08-03T16:45:00Z

The music, however, will be merely part of the illusion that is at the very heart of Friel's theatre. Brian Friel: trapped in silence 2012-08-10T21:55:09Z

Judges, she says, are there to promote the illusion of fairness. "The Good Fight" maps a way to pull victory out of a string of losses 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The kind of pride that rests on such illusions is best lost, and the sooner the better. Should I offer to help? 2013-04-10T00:00:00Z

You can imagine its dancers as dragonflies, fauns, larks — though any such illusions or allusions come and go. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Diogenes’s lament is a fitting title for a tale so unburdened by illusions. Review | ‘Throw Me to the Wolves’ is both a caustic social commentary and a riveting crime novel 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

The sequences in that film in which the spatial illusion works best are, for the most part, those involving the Na’vi and the wild fauna of Pandora. Film: 3-D Abounds, but What?s the Frenzy Really About? 2010-05-08T02:49:00Z

One of her most outstanding dresses, a pure illusion of shimmer, consists of panels of hand-woven tweed set in a grid pattern on the bodice. | Fashion Review: Exit Paris, Winking 2011-03-10T23:42:03Z

His latest works address the illusion that things last. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

Following a wicked trust-building exercise, he sent the audience merrily marching through a series of small basement rooms, counting off the illusions, a few of them loosely inspired by “Alice in Wonderland.” Sleights of Hand With Cards, Coins and a Colander 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

It is fixed in place with four little pieces of masking tape that look so real you might be tempted to peel them off the canvas, but they’re just a trompe l’oeil illusion. All the World in a ‘Slice’ of Art 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

More than half a century later the "Inception" sequence was filmed using the same basic technology, in which the room and the camera rotate simultaneously to give the illusion of shifting gravity. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z

Using reverberating plucked notes and whistling harmonics, he created the illusion of space and the acoustics of abandoned industrial architecture. Review: Todd Reynolds, Live and Recorded, at the Jewish Museum 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The same luxury ingredients were brought in from wherever they were available, and the illusion was maintained. A California Chef Learns to Swim in Changed Waters 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

In Season 1, Tiffany “Pennsatucky” Doggett is a villain whose intense racism, homophobia and illusions of grandeur culminate in her attempt to murder Piper. Pennsatucky’s redemption: How “Orange Is the New Black” pulled a reverse “Breaking Bad” 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

The entire bay quivered; the lighthouse wobbled; and she had the illusion that the mast of Mr Connor's yacht was bending like a wax candle in the sun. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z

And the borders between “truth and illusion,” to quote a favorite phrase of Martha’s, are zigzagging with a new ferocity that even they can’t keep up with. Review: George and Martha Redux in ‘Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Our entertainment industry is trivial and banal: glitz, glamour and an illusion of perfection and enjoyment that’s very far from the truth. 'Trump made me do it': director Nicolas Winding Refn on how the American apocalypse is fuelling 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Is it the persistent illusion of perfection that so infuriates me these days? Grief is a distant planet: How "A Wrinkle in Time" is helping me deal with my father’s decline 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

What you are witnessing is the conclusive collapse of a marriage’s fragile and necessary structure of illusions. Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

They were the illusions he thought Ms. Greenfield had bought into. Arts & Leisure: ‘The Queen of Versailles’ and Its Lawsuit 2012-06-21T15:00:00Z

The promise of liberty and freedom are becoming both charged weapons for the right to use and illusions for the left to lose hope in. "Good, honest folks": 20 years later, controversial "Dogville" has become frightening prophecy 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

And the authority and proprietary command of Mr. Wosner’s playing only enhanced the illusion. Schubert’s Sonatas, and a Pianist, Come Into Their Own 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

“I’m under no illusions that one film will be the cure to the climate crisis,” Mr. McKay, whose previous films include “The Big Short” and “Vice,” wrote in an email to the Times. Don’t Just Watch: Team Behind ‘Don’t Look Up’ Urges Climate Action 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Also explored are an illusion in which a rope rises from a basket and is somehow rigid enough to climb, and the bullet catch, in which a magician supposedly snags a bullet fired at him. Television Review: ‘Lost Magic Decoded,’ With Steve Cohen 2012-10-17T21:55:03Z

"Professional" watches offer an illusion of proficiency, but everyone knows you choose the one that you think looks the best. Mach2 modernism 2010-07-02T11:03:00Z

A student can't really research a dissertation on art from digital sources alone, however tempting the illusion. Google's views 2010-04-12T14:12:00Z

Two-dimensional Bengal tigers, cut from metal, cavort on the walls, and the illusion of a peacock in a garden is created from a bunch of colorful faux flowers and plants. Review | Commonwealth Indian is dressed to thrill in Rockville 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

The relentlessly dark dealings in the book keep catching glints of tinsel and foil: illusions of something better. 'The Informer': Author Craig Nova takes a turn through pre-World War II Berlin 2010-03-24T23:35:00Z

“Mistaken for love/It wasn’t love, it was a perfect illusion,” she belts, angry and tremulous. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Returns Lovelorn, and Zack de la Rocha Returns Furious 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

But there’s still a ritual illusion at work, too — the illusion that these academy-voted prizes somehow reflect the mood and values of the greater republic. White echoes: Rap, race and Iggy Azalea 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Americans have long connected the concept of "being best" to an outsized sense of primacy, an illusion that steadily deteriorated over the past decade and was entirely obliterated by this administration's pandemic response. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

The characterization of the United States’ post-9/11 attack on Afghanistan as a “breathtaking early success” was, to use a term later used in the review, “an illusion.” Afghanistan, a Double Bind and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

These sentences materialize whenever he senses—or I directly express—my pain, giving me, as Leslie Morgan Steiner says, “the illusion of control”; two other telltale signs of toxicity. Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Recalling the modern angst of The Suburbs track, “We Used to Wait”, the opening salvo questions the things we lose with our ensuing reliance on digital communication, suggesting we’re living an illusion in isolation. Arcade Fire’s Rare Power Shines on Reflektor 2013-10-28T18:41:49Z

Was it the illusion of flight or the illusion of love, was it self-deception or the deliberate choice of airy other-worldliness? Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z

They reinvent their life to continue this illusion. Juliette Binoche on playing a catfishing 50-year-old: "She cannot accept being abandoned" 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

The most adorable brother-sister team in history have their own well-worn rhythms that enhance this illusion for you. Donny and Marie Osmond: Cheerfully embracing their teen-idol past

A strident critic of Obama's foreign policy who lived in exile from Uruguay for over a decade during the 70s and 80s, he nonetheless enjoyed the symbolic resonance of Obama's election with few illusions. Eduardo Galeano: 'My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia' 2013-07-23T16:41:00Z

They say that technology has advanced to the point where special effects can be used to create the illusion of convincing gunfire. The ‘Rust’ Shooting Spurs a Debate Over Using Guns on Film Sets 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

That's kind of an illusion that things are getting worse, and an ancient one, too. ArtsBeat: A String of Antiheroes: Martin Amis Talks About His Novels 2012-10-03T12:59:28Z

One friend and mentor, Bizzaro, a magician in Las Vegas, relayed with a laugh a trick she does with a can of creamed corn, an illusion no one else has done. Conjuring up a career with one of NYC’s only female magicians 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

He loved new media and old, but both without illusion. Remembering David Carr, Media Critic and Media Lover 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

The illusion is that the dancers never stop, and that it’s these flats and the wings that interrupt our view of a larger continuity. Review: From Trisha Brown, Three Last Dances (Maybe) in Brooklyn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Composed of many long tracking shots, “Kidnapped” sustains an illusion of unfolding in real time. | 'Kidnapped': Intruders at the Window, and Then a Nightmare 2011-06-16T23:26:26Z

At the National Gallery, London, 6 July to 2 October René Magritte: The Pleasure PrincipleOne of the true modern greats, René Magritte fascinates because he so poignantly questions the power of painting to create illusions. Cy Twombly, Ren? Magritte and Thomas Struth ? the week in art 2011-07-08T16:17:00Z

While I hope this is relatable, I am not under the illusion that it is normal, especially for people who haven’t, say, been boxed into houses with small children. The Welcome Return of the Run-In 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

But the power of the production lies in the stripping away of protective illusion. Review 2010-05-28T00:49:00Z

Just as every generation prepares to hand the keys over to the next, its more bitter and resentful members demonstrate the apocalyptic apoplexy of self-centered illusion. My college students aren’t “snowflakes” — they’re tougher than their critics could imagine 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

For two days, Saturday and Sunday, the courtyard will be open for visitors to walk on it and observe the optical illusion. Louvre's glass pyramid set for interactive performance for 30th... 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Obstructed by the limits of love, grasping at lust, scared to work on a crumbling marriage,” he harbors no illusions about his own value. Sex and the middle-aged man 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

And his supposed linguistic skills look like a dangerous, sentimental, anthropomorphic illusion. Project Nim ? review 2011-08-11T21:09:00Z

She fell silent, then added, “And do you think that it could also be that I am truly sorry to have broken everybody’s illusion about the fairy tale?” Saving Sarah From Herself, Oprah Style 2011-06-03T19:53:35Z

Whether or not that is his real reason, he leaves viewers with at least the illusion that there is life after the camera lights shut off. The TV Watch: Larry King Goes Gently From CNN 2010-06-30T20:55:00Z

He perfected the illusion of the sports hero without the need for all of the practicing or talent. 21 of the wildest cons in history 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

“Follies” covers a giddy range of the forms assumed by the divided nature of love, and how we hold on to what remains of the illusions we once had about it. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Yet both meals were decidedly Iowan, and dismantled the illusion that in three days of cruising the state’s two-lane highways I could somehow pithily define its food. Frugal Traveler: Eating in Iowa: Farm-Fresh, Fried and Frugal 2013-08-14T22:43:34Z

This aspect of the illusion of control resulted in the most effective television. Stars of the final presidential debate: Biden laughing at Trump's BS and the invisible mute button 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

“With bags you see the fullness and then a little depression, she said. “When you fill that depression, it creates an optical illusion of smoothness.” The Fix for Dark Circles, Bags and Droopy Lids 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

It has to do with the body’s overall harmonious outline: how, from head to toe, limbs and torso create the illusion of continuous reach and length. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

But I do not suffer under the illusion that my daughter will tell me anything, let alone everything, unless I ask and ask again. Motherlode Blog: I Got Pregnant at 14. Ask Me About Plan B. 2013-06-11T18:56:10Z

It’s possible your status as a situational racial minority gave you the illusion that you didn’t have much in the way of racial privilege. How Can I Cure My White Guilt? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

There would be no false illusions of safety. How to survive—and thrive—in "The Heartbreak Years" 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z

For me, it’s like that optical illusion: is it a vase, or two faces? Hannah Gadsby meets Roxane Gay: ‘Trolls get incensed by a woman daring to think she's funny. I'm very funny’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

There was no tension here between the illusion and the wizard behind the curtain; it only seemed obvious that this was an artist in a fish tank, straining for effect. Critic’s Notebook: Queer New York Festival Is in Search of Broader Definition 2012-06-18T21:35:46Z

This was at first the illusion presented by the people running the campaigns, and in turn over the years, has become the custom for lots of us. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

In drag culture, “realness” is a term about successful illusion or impersonation. Dance Review: At American Realness Festival, a Range of ‘Fringe’ 2014-01-16T23:19:53Z

Blocking websites merely offers an illusion of action, reducing pressure for effective policies to be implemented and for the international community to tackle the issue head on. Pointless action on child pornography | Joe McNamee 2010-03-29T11:30:00Z

As an English professor, she is unhelpfully steeped in melodrama and illusion. In Laura Sims’s “Looker,” a Sad Voyeur Mistakes Her Own Life for a Poem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

In his work, Dove set aside the problem of painting as an illusion. Huntington's new gallery rooms show promise 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

But from a feminist point of view, “choice” is an illusion as long as there are huge discrepancies in health, wealth and power. The agony and ecstasy of becoming an older mother 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

Hence our burning desire to live in the skin of those illusions, to have some version of the lives experienced by the TV characters we adore. “The Bold Type,” “Dietland” and fashion: The feminist army is assembling (literally) in t... 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

This approach, through appearance and illusion, also suits the subject matter of Mr. William, who was born in Haiti. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

In the final scene of the film, a herd of insanely angry, berserk black-and-white cows definitively dispels the illusion of a civilised rural life. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Early on, he also became one of the art world’s most avid adopters of technology, not for its own sake, but to expand his means of creating imagery and illusion. Two Points of View, Miles Apart 2011-04-14T22:15:13Z

“Avoiding temptation” was an illusion: there was a liquor store across the street, a bodega next door, my roommate’s beer in the fridge and Listerine in the bathroom. Let me do sobriety my way 2012-08-18T16:00:00Z

Again and again, the 19th-century European novel returns to its favorite theme: lost illusions. ‘The Same Old Story’ is anything but 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

But then you should not trust anything you see — or think you see — either, because Mr. Guimarães is a master of illusion. Review: He’s Geekily Charming in This Magic Show, Until He Fools You 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

From an early age, he understood that security was an illusion. From Georgetown to Copenhagen, a chef takes charge

This celebration culminates the historical society’s Summer of Magic, a program series devoted to illusion. Presto! A Museum Becomes a House of Illusion 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

The truth was that the summer was an illusion. Michael Buerk savages BBC's coverage of Queen's diamond jubilee 2012-12-30T14:23:22Z

Such was the kind of showbiz being celebrated, a world in which shine counted for everything and bright, bright illusions were for sale. ArtsBeat: Surface Thrills: Remembering the Costumes of Theoni V. Aldredge 2011-01-21T18:58:25Z

Obviously, if you’ve just announced you’re marrying yourself, it is plainly a statement of self-love, and I was under no illusion how self-indulgent that might appear. I married myself 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

“I’m under no illusion that that one trip is going to change that community’s life and their health forever,” he says. Vivek Murthy wants to fix our mental health crisis. But how much can he do? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Does he go for his chemotherapy under the illusion, or the battle, either way you want to look at it, to help save his life? The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? Sept. 3 2011-08-28T04:30:07Z

A movie may be a representation of the world, but it is also something that happens in the world, which means that sustaining a cinematic illusion and breaking it are equally beside the point. Movie Review: ‘In Another Country,’ Starring Isabelle Huppert 2012-11-09T01:11:30Z

“I thought when you welded them together it would be an illusion of bark and tree that felt apt,” he says of the skeletal object. A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

In “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” a contemporary bookend to ’s splashy ’80s film, Gekko is still buying and selling illusions. What Walls Say in ?Wall Street? 2010-09-29T20:10:00Z

But six honey-hued granite peaks give the illusion of a towering castle and jut like spindly fingers into the sky. Exploring ‘The Land of Morning Calm’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

The advertising widget has a flair for the grotesque visual illusion. Lost in the Digital Swamp, Link by Link 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

The line between reality and alcoholic illusion is confusingly blurred, and I sympathized with the woman I overheard after the show who said to her date, “Do you think he imagined the whole thing?” Review: ‘Rear Window,’ the Perils of Voyeurism, With Kevin Bacon 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Far from being a flashy distraction, the play's vaudevillian style is a visual embodiment of the dream-like illusion to which the Texan energy giant, and similar corporations, surrendered. Enron's failure shows Broadway's flaws 2010-05-05T12:30:00Z

With the play of muscles as he knotted and looped his limbs, shifting through positions, it became difficult at times to separate reality from illusion. Dance Review: From Man to Robot to ?What?s That?? 2011-02-03T22:45:09Z

“Realness” is the currency inside these balls, whether realized via body, or face or living up to the illusion specified in a particular category. The uplifting realness of FX's "Pose" 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

But in case you're under the illusion that this somehow means mainstream culture co-signed Boyega's blunt realness, here's what one respondent had to tell him. John Boyega spoke out against racism, but Hollywood has punished actors for that in the past 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

What happened will be seen as a moment of self-delusion as much as grand illusion. Brian Friel: trapped in silence 2012-08-10T21:55:09Z

Pushing another slider caused winds to squawk like dinosaur-sized geese; another brought the illusion of a brass band marching through the box seats with cinematic magnificence; another turned the bass drum into thunder. The Hollywood Bowl's magicians of sound 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

Woody Allen explores the mysteries of illusion and love in "Magic in the Moonlight," a period romantic comedy inspired by 1920s clairvoyants who were debunked by leading magicians of the day. Woody Allen conjures up illusion for 'Magic in the Moonlight' 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

The painter, it seems, used a set of visual cues to orient the eye, to let the viewer know where the light is coming from, which in turn heightens the illusion of verisimilitude. Review | Before the West, there was the East, and it was wild 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

He described Kutcher's performance as "carefully judged," but said "the illusion never fully seizes hold" despite "an impressive attempt at vocal mimicry". Mixed reviews for Kutcher as Jobs 2013-01-28T12:57:31Z

The combination of jealous lovers and lurid deaths, the final confrontation between truth and illusion – all these are too unwieldy to translate into ballet terms. Northern Ballet: The Great Gatsby – review 2013-03-06T12:53:52Z

It’s also, in most songs, a studio illusion. Gary Clark Jr. Finds a 21st-Century Blues Spirit on ‘This Land’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

"I am a racial optical illusion," he declares early in the novel. 'Loving Day's' examination of race is handled with candor, wit 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

“Anything to give the illusion to the brain that a word is still there, even if you don’t hear that explicit word itself,” Joshua said. Cardi B’s ‘WAP’ Proves Music’s Dirty Secret: Censorship Is Good Business 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

But her genius was in being able to imagine, better than anybody else anywhere had done up to that point, just how much the novel narrative could do in constituting this illusion of presence. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z

Dualities and illusions -- things that appear to be what they’re not -- is another theme in the show. Rome's Depart Foundation opens L.A.-area space with Gabriele De Santis 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Having shown a world enslaved to the tyranny of self, Crimp suggests that even the Dante-esque dream of harmony and light is one more of our illusions. In the Republic of Happiness – review 2012-12-13T18:15:55Z

It helps that what happens includes some of the most eye-boggling illusions you’ll ever witness, without a visible wire or trap door in sight. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Raises the Bar for Broadway Magic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

The static visions of old dioramas, creating the illusion of a prehuman, idealized nature, are displaced. Exhibition Review: Giants on Tiptoe at a Los Angeles Museum 2011-07-19T16:30:28Z

A striking feature is the illusion of spatial movement, with squalls of sound rushing across orchestra sections. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Falco's Tommy immediately shoves a plank into the eye of that illusion simply by stepping into the room. "Tommy" is bracing and earnestly woke, maybe even too much for CBS' audience 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

That's the thing about the medium: It can create the illusion of intimate conversation when in fact you're broadcasting to the world. Russell Crowe's anti-circumcision rant blows up 2011-06-13T15:14:00Z

“Sex and the City” always existed in a fantasy version of New York City, but in its HBO Max sequel, “And Just Like That,” there’s a different sort of illusion at work. Wondering When the Pandemic Will End? On TV, It Already Has. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Was it a case of too many hard travels, illusions busted? The girl in the cave: how a search for my former hermit's cell led to the old me 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Although he has no illusions about Hollywood and the people who run it, there are no real villains in Thomson's book. The Big Screen by David Thomson – review 2012-10-12T21:55:01Z

As he scrawls phrases over the white backdrop, taking suggestions from the audience and their texting friends, Drummond creates the illusion of happy chaos. Empty | Theatre review 2010-03-16T22:45:00Z

How could belief in an illusion have persisted for so long? The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

Clearly Mr. Kanno harbors no illusions about the odds he faces. Critic?s Notebook: Music From Japan at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-02-17T00:37:24Z

The illusion of perfect timing permeates our lives all too often. Finally, a Wedding. It Was About Time. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

They suggest that space itself — as actual volume, as pictorial illusion and as emotional void — may be one of Mr. Stingel’s foremost themes. Validation successful. There was an error saving this asset. Please contact System Administrator. 2011-03-24T22:20:23Z

“A fantastical mixture of myth and historical reality,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times in February, adding that it “shatters lingering illusions of first-world culture.” Lost Culture on Found Film 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

This challenge requires words that are the literary equivalent of optical illusions. Disturbing words 2010-07-05T09:21:00Z

But it seems to me now that Celmins does this not to destroy the illusion, or to reiterate a tired and oft-trod lesson about resisting the blandishments of transparent representation. Review | Why is this genius artist only now getting a show worthy of her art? 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

“The illusion of Versailles as a village square obscures how varied Cuban Miami is, and that Cuban-Americans are not a monolith,” she said. Life After Castro at Miami’s Most Famous Cuban Restaurant 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Based on the company's 1992 animated film, "Aladdin" will feature songs, scenes, illusions, and a flying carpet that were not part of the show's world premiere production in Seattle in 2011. ArtsBeat: 'Aladdin' Will Launch in Toronto Before Broadway Run 2013-01-23T00:00:40Z

By demonstrating how dramatically his idea changes when shifted from paint to pencil, Marsh also complicates his language even further, suggesting that any feeling of stability is only a passing illusion. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

But relatively early in the novel Kalki, narrating in adulthood as a university lecturer in Toronto, breaks the illusion of his own divinity — and any illusion that his childhood had been blessed. Bildungsromans From Around the World 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

And I was reminded that for certain roles, a touch of the phony is just what’s needed to create an illusion of authenticity. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Finding Truth in Phoniness 2011-07-12T18:22:25Z

There will also be a stadium sound and light concert that will see lighting designer Durham Marenghi work with 500 dancers on the theme of illusion and fairs. Hull to be UK City of Culture 2017 2013-11-20T11:01:53Z

“Moshfegh’s sentences are piercing and vixenish, each one a kind of orphan. She plays interestingly with substance and illusion, with dread and solace on the installment plan.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

But Moss’s argument is that free will is an illusion, at least for certain foods. The Science Behind Your Need for One More Potato Chip 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

Or at least Mr. Berg — working from a script, by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand, based on an article in The New York Times — creates an effective illusion of knowledge. Review: In ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ Oil, Fire and Greed 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Negga’s Hamlet is never happier than when he’s masterminding such snares of illusions. Review: In ‘Hamlet,’ Ruth Negga Rules as a Player Prince 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

So in theory, you can always accurately trace direct cause and effect within the show’s illusions. Review: ‘The Encounter’ Is a High-Tech Head Trip Through an Amazon Labyrinth 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

“You see how thin the illusion of architecture is.” When a Star Architect Wants You Not to See His Work 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

You feel viscerally how Reality is always struggling to convey and to hold onto an illusion of normalcy, as if nothing were really wrong with this picture. ‘Is This a Room’ Review: Why’d She Blow the Whistle? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The illusion of rehearsal has endlessly rich possibilities in theater; Mr. Neenan merely sketches a few uncoordinated possibilities of glamour, virtuosity, musicality. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘A Program of Firsts,’ a Tricky Triple Bill 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Porter offers a learned, well-written and relentless survey of social science studies that shatters many illusions about race relations in the United States. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Houdini created spectacular illusions in ways that were practical and immediate, a contrast to the modern moment, when most dazzling effects are created by people huddling over computers in dark rooms. In 'Houdini,' Adrien Brody wants to 'convey the truth of an illusion' 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

As a result, the piece manages to pull off the illusion of engaging with matters of substance even as it’s sketching the outlines of a fairy-tale affair. Frisky ‘Sex With Strangers’: A bodice-ripper with a brain

He is recounting the creation of illusions, and, it must be said, he does this well. Fran?ois Truffaut ? the man who loved actors 2011-02-17T22:23:01Z

The very notion of alternative anything is a romantic illusion. Art Review | Brucennial 2010: Who Needs the Whitney? They Have Their Own Show 2010-02-25T22:26:00Z

The loss of innocence and cherished romantic illusions were overarching themes reflected in both the song choices and the singers’ dry-eyed interpretations of numbers like “Now You Know” and “There Won’t Be Trumpets.” Review: ‘Another Hundred People’ Digs Into Stephen Sondheim’s Catalog 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

But nobody has any illusions that the euro zone is anywhere near the finishing line of its long-distance race to get out of the economic hole. Myths explain Greece 2012-06-25T15:15:00Z

Bergman's discovery of the magic lantern, an early form of projector that uses multiple drawings or photographs to create the illusion of movement when its handle is turned, triggered his first experiments with film. Prom 5: BBC Philharmonic/Mena – review 2012-07-18T10:36:22Z

Harley gets healthier once the family abandons its home, but, with no illusions left, he finishes high school on the internet and takes a job laying gas pipeline. What Happened When Fracking Came to Town 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

A surprising tension between the materiality of the paint and an illusion of space arises. Art Review: A Fine Line: Style or Philosophy? 2011-06-23T22:45:46Z

Although the striking, 3D images have been called "holograms", they are in fact the result of an optical illusion pioneered in the Victorian era. Elvis to be digitally recreated 2012-06-07T09:21:20Z

I was afraid if I said the wrong thing I might spoil the illusion. Modern Love: He’s Playing Our Song 2012-09-21T22:26:05Z

In that time, we see how Hollywood producer Franklin Shepard lost his illusions, sacrificed his musical talent and broke up with his old chums, Charley and Mary. Merrily We Roll Along – review 2012-11-28T22:59:01Z

Trump likely assumed prime time's queen of the Gaussian blurred focus would buy the illusion of opulence and success he was selling. Barbara Walters knew we wanted the juice 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

Time is basic to the particular illusion that cinema creates. Critic’s Notebook: In ‘The Clock,’ You Always Know the Time 2012-07-16T20:15:34Z

The other ghosts are rendered with similarly effective theatrical illusions, including shadows and puppetry by James Ortiz. Review: A Ham’s ‘Christmas Carol,’ Without the Honey Glaze 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

Aller, like Blackwood, finds profoundly open spaces not far from Manhattan; her seascape offers an illusion of endlessness in monochromatic ocean that fades to bleached sky. In the galleries: Nature’s serenity 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Anyone, no matter how stationary, who watches it is likely to experience the illusion of being exhilaratingly footloose. Review: A ‘Comedy of Errors’ That Never Stands Still 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

In the most compelling works this creates illusions of near and far as if a surface membrane were disintegrating to reveal some luminous, uncertainly distant space. Art in Review: Keltie Ferris 2012-12-13T20:56:49Z

For Mr. Foster, this isn’t so much a drama of truth and illusion or magic and reality as it is “a war play.” Ben Foster Brings His Beast Mode to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

More than anything, though, the unique capacity for bronze to create an illusion of corporeal pathos resides in its light-reflective qualities. Bronze sculptures in 'Power and Pathos' at the Getty capture pivotal era 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

I’ve always thought of otters as goofy, laid-back animals, but that illusion was quickly dispelled. Stalking an elusive YouTube star: The adorkable red panda 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

“Which is not to say I didn’t believe in what I did. But I hold no illusions.” Rod Daniel, Whose Crowd-Pleasing Films Lined Pockets, Dies at 73 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Both “1917” and “Joker” have been polished to a high gleam, which strengthens the illusion that they have something meaningful to say about the culturally venerated subject of men and violence. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

It is an inventive twist on the magic show, but they are mainly low-grade illusions coupled with gentle comedy. Seeking adventure at the Edinburgh Fringe 2013-08-04T00:37:54Z

The brothers’ disquieting art films are largely created with stop-motion animation, whereby the illusion of movement is achieved by painstakingly nudging each oddment — say, a puppet or a wood screw — within a scene. Film: Animators Amok in a Curiosity Cabinet 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z

Eventually it breaks into a “La La La” chorus – custom made for arena or barroom sing-alongs — though pausing to poke at modern illusions: “It’s all smoke and mirrors/ What you gonna do about it?” Olympics theme songs: Still terrible 2012-07-19T16:40:00Z

VJ Movement, founded two years ago by Thomas Loudon, a video journalist, on the premise that "objectivity is an illusion", allows its members to set the news agenda. Sloths, sharks and spoofs sate appetite for online DIY films 2010-08-17T22:11:00Z

If the world is a joke, that doesn’t simply mean it’s funny; it could also means it’s cruel, even an illusion. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t until I was 16, a bored high school junior on a Friday night in December 2000, that this pleasant illusion finally died. Steven Levenson: The First Time I Attended a Political Protest 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Once again, I think the illusion of power carries with it the idea that the president can inflict harm on an enemy without directly jeopardizing or putting at risk American lives. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z

The fun starts on Friday evening in the Bronx with three troupes — Hybrid Movement Company, the Incredible Incredible and Impact Repertory Theater — doing dance, acrobatics and illusions. Spare Times for Children for June 26-July 2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

I don’t have a lot of illusions about the alternate social universe that is Facebook. I Was Misinformed: In Your Face(book) — Here’s the Party You Weren’t Invited To 2013-01-09T17:02:53Z

“The proceedings above and under water were filmed in 3-D to impart an illusion of depth when viewed through polarized glasses,” A.H. Ricou Browning, Who Made the Black Lagoon Scary, Dies at 93 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

The idea was to project three differently filtered frames at a time on to a screen to create the illusion of a single, colorful movie. UK museum revives first-ever film shot in color 2012-09-12T21:01:05Z

Friendships, too, prove to be illusions, as that between the girls fractures and frays, exposing the aching need at the center of each individual’s ambitions. Debut Novels Reveal the Fragility of Female Bonds 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Occasionally, they even acquire an impressive illusion of texture and mass. Review: ‘Sleeping Beauty Dreams’ Is a Tawdry Tech Fantasy 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

Others are tightly cropped slices of things hanging on her walls, creating strange optical illusions. Tina Barney: The Photographer’s Origin Story 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

That illusion burst, our writers fall hack on bleakness of spirit, soreness of heart. Considering the American Voice 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

For a decade now, Brown has been entertaining audiences with a blend of hypnotism, magic, illusion, mind games and elaborately ambitious stunts. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z

Ahead of opening its first restaurant in the city, the fast food giant teamed up with an audio engineer to give the illusion that Big Ben was chiming again. Taco Bell tricks Londoners into thinking Big Ben is chiming 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

But he projects an illusion of absolute composure — that’s part of his appeal. Two Young Cuban Jazz Players Arrive at the Standard 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

Even my attempts at self-love, a concept that still eludes me, have been marked by acquisition, stabs at forward motion, the illusion that we ever arrive at completion. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

The petition, which had over 8,200 signatures on Friday, says screenings of Russian movies at festivals create “the illusion of Russia’s involvement in the values of the civilized world.” To Boycott Russians, or Not? In Film and Beyond, That’s the Question. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

But Ms. Mallory said she never had the illusion that she might end up with her famous boyfriend. Up Close: Carole Mallory, Mistress of Norman Mailer, Speaks Up 2010-05-05T20:05:00Z

Even as they grasp that their postings can draw scorn, the Snap Pack seems unable to relinquish the habit of social media, and the illusion of image control it affords. Move Over, Rat Pack and Brat Pack: Here Comes the Snap Pack 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

The widespread belief that women work harder than men do, what with their jobs and then "the second shift" at home, is an illusion, says Wolf. The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society by Alison Wolf – review 2013-04-26T08:30:01Z

Drawing on his experiences working for the Genesius Theater in Reading, Pa., Mr. Beane has created a play that gives us “truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” Review: ‘Shows for Days,’ With Patti LuPone as a Diva With Depth 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Nick, settling into his uneasy chair and trying to sustain an illusion of normalcy in full view of the neighbors, tries to split the difference. | 'Everything Must Go': A Picture Window on a Life Turned Inside Out 2011-05-12T21:43:02Z

Intermixing historical analysis with new discoveries, the film unveils that while diamonds come from the earth, they are really human inventions, for they are only as covetable as the illusions they carry. ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ Review: Mining the Diamond Myth 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

When I shared this with my therapist, she told me to “have a funeral for the death of romantic illusion.” Goodbye, My Fantasy Man 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Her strongest dramatic performance was a rendition of “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” that took at face value Eva Perón’s insistence that fortune and fame are “illusions” and “not the solutions they promised to be.” Music Review: Elaine Paige at the Allen Room, Friendly and Confessional 2012-02-13T23:21:13Z

And she has no illusions that she was the most logical candidate for the role of Ball or even the first actress sought to play her. How Nicole Kidman Learned to Love Playing Lucille Ball 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

The wonders here may leave you momentarily out of sympathy with Western painting’s supposedly heroic pursuit of realism, spatial illusion and one-point perspective. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

America is defined by its dedication to the illusion of equality and endless opportunity, of being best. What "Loki," "Lucifer" and "Cruella" tell us about our love affair with rewriting ugly stories 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

The illusion of real time means that the performance clocks in reliably night in and night out. A dark ‘Tartuffe’s’ light touch 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

If any impression of American life invited the jaundiced eye of Albee — who died last year at 88 — it was the illusion of blissful domesticity. A scintillating ‘Virginia Woolf’ with a scalding Holly Twyford 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Now I had to divest myself of the illusion that we deserved what had happened. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

It also feels like a postmodern spin on pictures like The Producers and Wag the Dog, with practitioners of the showbiz black arts creating tinselly illusions. Argo – review 2012-11-08T15:30:01Z

For three illusions, visitors use a pencil to complete the trick, such as comparing the lengths of two triangles. Cultural institutions reopen with a more hands-off approach 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

This sort of comedy of manners is much harder to pull off than it appears – it needs to create the illusion of an effortlessness that is in fact very hard-won. ArtsBeat: Brantley, Isherwood Answer Readers’ Questions About the Theater Season 2013-05-02T17:29:09Z

This included the sophisticated digital rendering of fire and water, and the illusion of convincing human characters. "Shrek" at 20: celebrating the film’s unique brand of animated anarchy and sardonic irreverence 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

It teaches that the ideal of unalterable tradition is an illusion, that change itself is a tradition, maybe the great modern one. An Art Critic in Africa: In Mali, Finding Art as Authentic as Life Itself 2012-04-16T18:59:43Z

Klein’s career was made up of such illusions, acts and objects that had to be accepted on faith as art. The Week Ahead: May 23 ? 29 2010-05-20T20:56:00Z

But it feels nice, when the illusion of a breeze arrives, to observe the city slowly getting empty. Olimpia Zagnoli’s “A Taste of Summer” 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

The illusions are so seamless, it’s easy to mistake what is “real” and what is artifice. A Shape-Shifting Woman Plays All the Parts 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

It's all illusion and you can decide any way the song's interpreted. Fan tribute videos: better than the originals? 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

Parreno regularly collaborates with experts and artists, including classical musicians, sand sculptors, virtual-reality visionaries, and masters of illusion, from mimics to magicians. An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

The unthinking exuberance of such entertainment and self-entertainment is the counterpart—and the result—of the unthinking technocracy from which they provide an illusion of liberation and relief. Movie of the Week: “The Eclipse” 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Many of Ito's rare and brilliant films, which were screened at the Flatpack film festival in Birmingham last weekend, use the same technique: shooting photographs and arranging them frame-by-frame to create the illusion of reality. Flatpack film festival turns spotlight on Takashi Ito 2010-04-01T15:00:00Z

But I harbor no illusions about my purpose. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom appears to have a handle on it, but she’s still at a loss 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Not that the assassination ending of “Outrage” left any illusions about the limits of loyalty. Movie Review: ‘Beyond Outrage’ Mobsters Are Back With Beat Takeshi 2014-01-02T22:35:06Z

These pictures reveal and celebrate the labor involved in the production of illusions that make their way back into reality. When Filming in New York, the City Is Always the Star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Building a 21st-Century Baroque As she walked down the stage, it seemed at first like an illusion. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z

Like the rest of us, she chases dragons because they are an illusion of human dominion, a relentless and foolhardy attempt to shrink the universe to a map we can control. Dragon Tales From the Authors of ‘The Girl Who Drank the Moon’ and ‘A Wish in the Dark’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

The first half features their trademark macabre illusions, packed with invention, spectacle and the occasional eruption of blood and guts. This week's new live comedy 2012-06-01T23:06:09Z

Kraft’s evening with the contest’s founder at an exclusive mac-and-cheese restaurant offers a brilliant satire of Silicon Valley and the way vast sums of money create the illusion of insight. Review | In ‘Kraft,’ German author Jonas Lüscher pokes fun at Silicon Valley’s shiny elitism and rabid faith in technology 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Add two tall mirrors opposite the windows to reflect light and create the illusion of a larger space. How to create an inviting space for reading, conversation and more 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Am I breaking the illusion that we're living in the 13th century? The Walkie-Talkie: battle of the bulge on Fenchurch Street 2012-12-12T19:30:01Z

Avoiding a huckster’s brash flash, he is a soft-spoken storyteller who uses sleight-of-hand, manipulation and illusion to explore his sense of self and gently invite theatergoers to do the same. ‘Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself’ Review: Wow Factor Meets Why Factor 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

Mann doesn’t see what he films, he shows it, conjuring the illusion of reality, of pseudo-documentary, without actually revealing much about place. The Stylish, Empty Realism of Michael Mann 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Equality apparently is just an illusion in "Squid Game" — just as it is at Netflix, as a workplace. Netflix execs and "Squid Game" VIPs are playing from the same out-of-touch handbook 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

Of course it’s an illusion, but I like this idea that it begins there. Possessed : Upon Reflection, Anne Fontaine’s Feminine Touch 2013-09-13T20:42:59Z

Vertically oriented art creates a focal point and adds the illusion of height in a room with low ceilings. How to turn a dated formal living room into a cozy retreat for watching TV 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

In his artist statement, White writes, “I utilize trompe l’oeil as a stylistic choice to emphasize the concept that our understanding of the world is an illusion.” ‘Sea Change’ and allusions to climate change among artworks at local galleries in January 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Director Rashid Masharawi steps into the fray, his cargo shorts and straw sun hat breaking the illusion created by the actors and production company at the set of feature-length film "Palestine Stereo". Drama meets daily life in Palestinian film 2012-07-23T11:16:24Z

On the other hand, you never think that he’s some synthetic, airbrushed illusion — like many of the stadium-playing chart toppers of today — held together by smoke, mirrors and synthesizers. | 'Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway': ?Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway? at Broadhurst - Review 2011-11-11T03:01:10Z

Oil paint, with its gleam and depth, gives an illusion of healthy permanence. Art Review: ‘Dürer to de Kooning,’ at the Morgan Library 2012-10-11T23:02:45Z

What happened was more like what happens when you stare at those poster-size optical illusions, the ones that look like a chaos of computer-generated black dots—at first. My year without makeup 2013-01-10T01:00:00Z

Mary Zimmerman’s wanly Neo-Classical production doesn’t help locate the depths of an opera about intense emotions and the possibilities and limits of illusion. Music Review: Ren?e Fleming Returns to Rossini?s Tale of a Sorceress and Her Crusader 2011-02-20T22:58:51Z

Strauss’s reconstructed story revolves around his memory’s “grand tug-of-war between substance and illusion.” ‘The Confabulist,’ a novel by Steven Galloway

Another recurring theme in his paintings is the world of theatre: melancholy actors and backstage scenes, in a dreamlike atmosphere of illusion and fantasy. Emilio Fraia on Stories Within Stories 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

To call “Chester Bailey” a well-made play, though, is to accept that well-made plays are always something of an illusion. Review: In ‘Chester Bailey,’ a Case of Physician, Shrink Thyself 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

The New York Times said Caldwell “flounces onto the stage like a sparrow with illusions of grandeur.” Actress Zoe Caldwell, Tony winner for ‘Medea,’ dies at 86 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

During a performance of his famous box illusion, the magician somehow summons a strange clown, one with seemingly miraculous powers. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

When the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears on stage, Horatio’s words to him are beautifully ambiguous: “Stay, illusion!” he commands. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

“O’Neill never changed his philosophy from the earliest days of his writing: the only way to get through life is to find an illusion — or delusion — and cling to it,” he said. | New Haven: Brian Dennehy Takes on Beckett at the Long Wharf Theater 2011-11-27T02:44:07Z

There are no illusions, and yet the man makes the wrong choice. In ‘Lulu,’ the Question That Stops an Opera 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

In particular, the Belgian artist was interested in playing with ideas of reality and illusion. Magical Magritte 2011-06-17T06:20:04Z

His Armide is aggressive and hateful but also damaged and pained, prone to the same illusions and doubts she inspires in others. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z

By tracing the bloodlines of Frank’s family and other families in the series, she said, she is exploring “this illusion of order in really chaotic narratives.” In Taryn Simon’s Paris Show, a Look at How a Hidden Hand Organizes Reality 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

"These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship," he said. Rolling Stone releases Lennon's final interview 2010-12-08T11:46:00Z

“I’ve always had this illusion of being in the Blue Note or Birdland with Charlie Parker in front of me. It didn’t sound like that, but that was the illusion I had.” Charlie Watts, Bedrock Drummer for the Rolling Stones, Dies at 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Control, or the illusion of it, is her drug of choice. Using Fiction to Show How Self-Control Becomes Self-Destructive 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

His duet with the real robot grew out of that sorrow and the desire for “a beautiful illusion.” The dancer and the robot: In ‘Huang Yi & Kuka,’ longing is cold comfort 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

Fionn Meade, the show’s organizer and the SculptureCenter’s curator, says in an essay that he is under no illusions about which kind of cat he’s wrangling. 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z

Faye knows how to use illusions to get what she wants, but Don is an illusion – beneath the surface, there's just more surface. "Mad Men" recap: Through the looking glass 2010-10-11T12:30:00Z

Pierpont writes that the building’s “illusion” was essential to its identity: The spire rises to “an impossible slenderness that disappears gradually, like a bird flying out of sight.” ‘American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building’ 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

Color and play are important to Lear, but so are the mechanics of illusion. In the galleries: simplicity, spontaneity and the beauty of imperfection 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

I am not sure what illusion he is buying here, or that anyone could truly believe this print has value, but he does. Damien Hirst at Tate Modern 2012-07-09T14:15:00Z

Despite the deft coherence of the plot’s mirror games of alliance and betrayal, which provide the illusion of a developed drama, the movie almost totally deprives its characters of inner life or complex motives. “Mission: Impossible—Fallout” Is Basically a Two-and-a-Half-Hour Making-Of Sequence 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Mirrors bring to mind illusion, self-love and self-loathing, and to an extent, fear. Readers recommend: songs about mirrors – results 2012-08-16T09:11:32Z

Cohl’s simple, geometric figures are a long way from “Fantasia” but the illusion of life is already enchanting. DVD: At Gaumont in France When All Was Possible 2011-04-22T23:43:02Z

The politics behind Shakespeare and stage illusion are more fraught than usual these days. Two Ways to Bring Shakespeare Into the Twenty-First Century 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Back then, too, it suffered from the “historical illusion” that it was “something to be outgrown, a juvenile and undeveloped form.” A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Caldwell has a central role in Free Solo, too, as Honnold’s training partner and a friend who harbors no illusions about the risks, at one point referring to Honnold as “most likely to die”. No ropes attached: behind two heart-racing free climbing documentaries 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Instead, custom lenses, special filming techniques and a lot of post-processing work on the back-end creates the illusion of depth and movement, while booming surround sound and haptic feedback help sell the experience. Vulcan’s Holodome exhibit at MoPOP lets groups share an ‘immersive reality’ experience 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Time indeed may be an illusion, as one of its characters proposes. Review: ‘Antlia Pneumatica,’ With Voices in the Dark 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

The timeless popularity of the romance reality genre speaks to this by selling the illusion of finding true love by gamifying the process. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

The anti-heroes imagine they are heroes, but the moral universe exposes this illusion. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z

While hip-hop gave Coates his “earliest sense of what writing should mean,” Baldwin showed him that writing must generate “the reflex to strip away illusion, to break away from dreams.” Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

If the United Nations were useful for nothing else, it would be imperative to keep it alive … We can have no illusions about the discouragements which lie ahead. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

We stopped at a half-dozen covered bridges just long enough for selfies and found Gravity Hill, an optical illusion that makes cars look like they’re rolling uphill. I vacationed at the East Coast’s quintessential rest stop. It’s more inviting than it looks. 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

According to the museum’s brochure, a system of movable walls “conveys an illusion of spaciousness” in the two-bedroom building. MoMA Built a House. Then It Disappeared. Now It’s Found. 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

She’s a con artist, too, in the way that all novelists are, replacing our own reality with the illusion of hers. What We’re Reading This Summer 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Scenes take place within illusions, or illusions nested within illusions. ‘Legion’ and the Rise of Surreality TV 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

“Sunset”, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, follows a young woman in 1913 Budapest, on the eve of the war the shattered the illusion of endless European progress. 'Son of Saul' director seeks roots of 20th century downfall in new... 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

At that point, Mr. Noble chose bigger collars, bigger pants and jackets to give the illusion “that this man was shrinking into his own isolated world,” he said. Clothes and Character: 'Theory,' 'Selma' and 'Hobbit' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Tiny nature motifs almost invisible to the eye, like twigs and leaves, were printed onto the fabric to create the illusion of being an extension of the forest. Clothes and Character: 'Maleficent' 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The New Deal, a keyboard-bass-drums trio, percolated through blipping, upbeat instrumentals with the unswerving tempo and dynamics of digital loops, only to rupture the illusion now and then with an outburst of noisy keyboard improvisation. The Hudson Project, Cut Short by a (Real) Tempest 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Prieto, a buoyant drummer, writes music that lends an illusion of constant expansion to even the smallest ensembles. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

The extreme transparency of the woven and knitted tulle gives it the appropriate name: “illusion.” Designers Dip Into Klimt's Well 2012-11-12T12:37:03Z

Almost as soon as Koenig and Rechtshaid fabricate the naturalistic sound of a band, they break the illusion with electronic effects or sudden edits that completely upend the arrangements. Vampire Weekend Wraps Breakdowns in Musical Smiles on ‘Father of the Bride’ 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Just as in airport bars, time on vacation is something of an illusion. "The White Lotus": When it comes to vacation, what does pleasure actually look like? 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

The thundering weight of the bass line not only conjured the illusion of the organ's pedal notes, but resonated right up through the instrument to maximise the impact of the chromatic harmony. Stephen Hough 2010-06-02T21:31:00Z

She believes it’s her responsibility to maintain the illusion, and in return they believe in her. Mermaiding is trendy. I hit the water in monofin and tail to see if it’s also a workout. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

“It was part of the illusion that I was going to make it.” Aida Rodriguez Wants You to Laugh at the Pain 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Camera angles, lighting and optical illusions can be employed and manipulated. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

But I also feel quite confident that those associations have largely fallen away – nobody at our wedding will be under any illusions, knowing that we've lived together for five years. How to have a feminist wedding 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Words, so many words were extinguished one by one in the silence of the cordillera, which remains even now silent and unchanging in its illusion of eternity. Returning to the scene of the crash: A survivor of the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash reflects 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

By the end, having come to her senses, she lets go of the illusion of the garden and frees herself from the imprisonment of desire. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

A belching smokestack helped the illusion along, sort of. Staring at the End, in Several Senses 2013-12-13T19:29:33Z

If anything, Trump’s wall is the embodiment of a longstanding illusion of American permanence and superiority. What Is the Status of Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Wall’? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Most people recognize me for Potter, I’m under no illusions about that. Daniel Radcliffe on Why He Loves When People Make Fun of Him 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The one essential element in any jazz performance, the preservation of the illusion of improvisation, he has cast to the winds, pursuing instead rarer and rarer refinement. From the Observer archive, 29 November 1959: how to take pizzazz out of jazz 2012-11-24T00:05:25Z

Having explicitly warned us that thinking about the time-travelling mechanics of the plot too much "just fries your brain", this barrels along fast enough to create the illusion of making sense – almost. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-01-27T00:06:05Z

“Firmament,” using the same pin-mounted technique, evokes a whole sky-scape, with large and small bird silhouettes — snipped from a marabou stork feather at the base of the piece — creating a remarkable illusion of sky depth. Review: Yes, those tiny birds were cut from real feathers 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Black-market diamonds — mostly smuggled out by the impoverished miners themselves — threatened the illusion of scarcity, and so mining concerns long ago became exercises in total control. Pigeons: Nuisance Animals, or Expert Accomplices in Diamond Smuggling? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Bogart might disagree about the relevance: “Alcina,” she said in a program note, is about short attention spans, illusion and addiction, all contemporary topics. Review | Strong women take the lead in Washington National Opera’s ‘Alcina’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

Now, brow powders, professionally applied tints and even a transparent gel with fibers can give the illusion of fullness. Skin Deep: After Overplucking, It?s Time to Call the Professionals 2009-12-17T06:12:47Z

But even then, it would have most likely been on Facebook where at least I am given the illusion that I can control who has access to the pictures. Art or Porn: When Does Posting Nude Photos of a Toddler Cross the Line? 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Some novelists don't mind playing to the gallery by dedicating their latest not to an individual but to practically everyone who might pick it up, engendering an illusion that they are writing just for us. Stories told by book dedications 2011-07-20T09:25:16Z

It refers also to a separate work, Roget’s study of the optical illusion in which a turning wheel viewed through an aperture appears to stand still or move backward. ‘Roget’s Ilusion’: wheels within wheels, words within words 2014-05-07T20:16:34Z

As with all Gouthière’s figures, she benefits from his adaptation of the matte gilding process to bronze — enabling many new subtleties, including the illusion of soft skin. Gouthière at the Frick: Gilding the Lily (and Everything Else) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

“Of that I am convinced. To me, it’s an illusion, that’s all.” Anthony Hopkins Makes It Look Simple. (And Maybe It Should Be.) 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

But when grimy handprints build up near handles or when the finish wears off there, it does ruin the illusion. How to renew whitewashed cabinets 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The Mount Rushmore sequence was filmed on a sound stage using rear-projected, large-format still photographs to create the illusion that it was filmed on location. Robert Boyle obituary 2010-08-10T17:21:00Z

It’s an illusion, perhaps, but the surreal results are irresistible. Nordic Heritage Museum casts edgy ‘Weather Diaries’ exhibit 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

A set that can change locations instantaneously, or costumes that pin down time and class with almost taxonomic exactitude, can anchor while also heightening the illusion of life. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

The narrator, meanwhile, sustains the illusion of his own affection and beneficence, in essence paying for the privilege of being an American savior, wavering between the thrill of passion and the “acidic sense of entrapment.” ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

For the illusion, Gob appears as Christ on the cross and the only person in the audience who enjoys it is Tony Wonder. Arrested Development recap: season four, episodes 6-10 2013-05-27T13:36:17Z

“I like the illusion of simplicity – things that look simple but are complex.” Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan on their new creations - an acclaimed film and a baby daughter 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

A well-done jump scare breaks down the same way Michael Caine describes illusions in The Prestige, with three distinct steps. Conjuring a fright: what makes a great horror movie? 2013-07-26T12:00:00Z

Reality and illusion always seemed to buckle a bit in the telling of their tale. Angela Gheorghiu's serious claims might not be taken seriously 2013-07-03T17:00:00Z

The connection of the interviews to the evidence of the historical record is sometimes illuminating and sometimes paradoxical; sometimes the past reveals present-day illusions, sometimes new recognitions shed light on old mysteries. Two Prescient Films About the Memory of the Holocaust 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

In terms of the painting, there’s a sense of an illusion. Paintings that Demolish the Myths of What a Home Should Be 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

But that reaction tells us how effective "And Just Like That" has been in propping up the illusion that Steve's testosterone cratered over the years. "And Just Like That," Steve offers a chance at renewal – but did he have to be so mean about it? 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z

“One of humankind’s great illusions is the belief in the total superiority of Homo sapiens over other species,” she replied. Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

And when flanked by dancers creating the mere illusion of war’s toll, Hurley manages, in his compelling efforts to duplicate their exertions, to achieve a profound kind of gracefulness. ‘Healing Wars’ at Arena Stage depicts veterans’ struggles through dance

“I commissioned different artists to make op-art murals on which people would play handball,” says Allen, referring to art that employs optical illusions. After 15 years, a forest, a pig and a giant tongue, Echo Park alternative arts space Machine Project is closing its doors 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The illusion Levit created was that of bowing, so connected was one note to the next. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Wasn’t it its own form of costume play in which ordinary people set aside their lives and enjoyed, by way of lobsters in the tropics, the brief illusion of being upper class? Steampunks at Sea 2014-03-14T15:50:39Z

Now, drinking in the detail of the Dutch masters, I found my sense of enchantment heightened, the illusion of reality in the paintings astounding. Post-lockdown Amsterdam is a crowd-free joy 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

The two illusions meet head-on in the great father-son confrontation in the second act. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Tennessee Williams's southern discomfort 2012-09-30T19:00:11Z

He had few illusions about people: “Look at my virtuous republicans: all I have to do is hang gold braid on their clothes and they are mine.” Review | Napoleon Bonaparte, gardener? Yes, says a new book, the dictator found solace in the natural world 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

The women who have no illusions about love may be lonely, but their bitter knowledge gives them strength. The Week Ahead: June 13 ? 19 2010-06-11T13:31:00Z

As the shapes shift and mutate, Hosoda uses old-fashioned perspective — differing sizes and planes, parallel edges and vanishing points — to create an illusion of movement through depth. ‘Belle’ Review: Soaring and Singing Over the Online Rainbow 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

I'm not convinced it ever truly did stem from one, really, with its mix of 1950s formality and oddly polite Victorian parlour game, yet it was a gentle, endearing illusion. Some radio voices never age. Sadly, their owners do 2010-08-04T08:52:00Z

Mr. Welling used tin foil to create the illusion of celestial galaxies; Mr. DeSana’s image is closer to bodily emissions, a concept that dovetailed with the then-pariah status of people with AIDS. Revisiting an Artist’s Provocative Photographs 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Still, Goldman got her crowning moment, with an optical illusion that made the audience ooh and aah ... then laugh at its soft collapse. Review: Trey McIntyre Project is physical and precise; witty and intricate 2010-03-19T16:44:00Z

But unlike Balanchine and Cunningham, Nikolais was interested in sleight-of-hand and eye, in visual illusion rather than the expansion of a dance vocabulary. Dance Review: Celebrating Alwin Nikolais at the Joyce Theater 2010-05-05T23:06:00Z

“When I realized that the blue sky was just an illusion, and behind, it was always night, that was a big deal.” Anohni Isn’t Afraid of the Darkness 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

A walking tour and magic show, it leads ramblers, each armed with a small radio receiver, through Brooklyn Heights in the gray-gold dusk, pausing for local lore and occasional illusions. Theater Is in the Streets of New York, if You Listen 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Santalla created the illusion of more space with ceilings that appear to hover in places through suspended “clouds” — sections of drywall incorporating halogen spotlights painted white in contrast to the dark surfaces above them. One couple’s purple house full of eBay finds and sleek condo full of almost nothing 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Even when she is making a mistake, we empathize with her desire for transcendence and her understanding that transcendence is another illusion, that the quotidian is all we get. 'Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel' conjures a new literary form 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s all part of the illusion,” he said. Affirmative: The Charlotte Hotel’s a delight

I’m under zero illusions that I will ever match Mum’s incredible achievements: it would be like expecting Roger Federer’s kids to outperform him. Sporting children of champions: 'I've always had a need for speed' 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Conductors serve to generate the illusion of novelty: as Theodor W. Adorno wrote, in his “Introduction to the Sociology of Music,” the maestro “acts as if he were creating the work here and now.” The Berlin Philharmonic Searches for a Messiah 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

He had no illusion about Kennedy’s instincts, which were viewed initially by the skeptical civil rights community as authoritarian, pragmatic, and not especially sympathetic. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

In almost every version the ballet covers at least three layers of reality or illusion. Critic's Notebook: Tales Within Tales Create a Tale of Two ?Nutcracker? Productions 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z

Beneath the owl’s translucent breast, the faintly perceived swings of the battle-axe-shaped rotor give the illusion of a beating heart. Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: Retail Strategy Keeps MB&F in Demand 2010-11-26T07:50:00Z

I am not under any illusion that I love him, but I do enjoy his company. Of conscience and creativity 2013-05-09T00:00:00Z

"Operation Varsity Blues" probably didn't have to put this concept into action by layering dramatic illusion on top of its fact. Matthew Modine (and his wig) star in Netflix's diverting "College Admissions" true crime recreation 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

I don’t think we have any illusions that we’re making something everybody has to like. Danny McBride: Vice Principals Isn't A Story About Race 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

This illusion lasted however many months before both U.S. and Russian military forced their way onto the peninsula. The "Squid Game" critique is also a love letter to a unified Korea 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

The original meaning of the word “prestige” was an illusion or conjuring trick, from the Latin praestigium – a delusion. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki had no illusions about the expectations and challenges they’d face as the latest incarnations of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in “The Crown.” ‘The Crown’ Has a New Diana and Charles to Tear Apart 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

The expansion yields a wonderful lesson in scale, creating the illusion of pulling the gallery’s far-flung walls a bit closer together. Art in Review: SOL LEWITT: ?Arcs and Lines? 2011-06-02T22:00:30Z

That was the great lesson of modernism: Art is more than mere illusion, and it gains further meaning by pushing media to the limits of their capabilities. Virtual Reality Has Arrived in the Art World. Now What? 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Plato’s cave, which involves illusion and manipulation, is a driving allegory in the book, which is also undergirded by the cultural thinker Jean Baudrillard’s theories of the relationship between reality and simulation. Derek DelGaudio and the Great Unburdening of Secrets 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Despite their large size and plastic casing, videotapes have only the illusion of permanence. Sects, lies and videotape: "Archive 81" and the mystique of the semipermanent artifact 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

But, for me, it’s also that a lot of this is coming from illusion, and I’m not caught up in the illusion. Constantly on the Go, Looking for New Voices 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

It was our first experience of learning that there’s a bit of an optical illusion of like, “We got a song on the radio! We’re big time!” Tegan and Sara: Releasing an Album Is Like Running a Political Campaign 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Stretch the time frame more than that and the illusion breaks; the elastic snaps. Time and motion pictures: from Boyhood to old age, Everyday 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Now a repositioned, well-signed trail pulls visitors in the right direction and, as they get closer, creates the illusion of Jenny Lake appearing out of nowhere. Jenny Lake, the breathtaking centerpiece of Grand Teton National Park, gets a refresh 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The Professionals marks the strange and wonderful conjunction of the creative world with what Tom calls "that well-known illusion called 'real life'". Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

The illusion of control in a chaotic world? The new nerds: how Avengers and Game of Thrones made everyone geek out 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Sparring with Mike Tyson 2012-08-09T04:48:00Z

“But you will be invited to enjoy the illusion of such enlightenment in the skilled and charismatic company of Julia Roberts and George Clooney.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Dheepan’ and ‘Deadpool’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Each quadruple bill at City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival is admirably eclectic and warmly applauded, which gives us all the illusion that most of the audience truly enjoys all four items. Vuyani Dance Theater and Trisha Brown at Fall for Dance 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The finished product is shopped around to star singers, who do their best to “preserve the illusion” of authorship. Bopping brilliant 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

A timeless classic about lost illusions, lost ideals, lost youth, now translated into English for the first time. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

We increasingly live our lives online, in the parallel dimensions spawned by digital technology, and it’s easy to get divorced from the physical world and succumb to the illusion that everywhere is nowhere. The smartest route to Pittsburgh: The one with no shortcuts 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

These present the illusion of a hot-colored sphere inside a clear cube but in fact are a sequence of paintings on aligned plastic squares. In the galleries: Collaged drawings that zig and zag at Adah Rose

The album’s endless sense of spontaneity is its most accomplished illusion. Deep Inside the Beatles’ White Album, 50 Years Later 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

We see all the illusions that the characters sustain. Farewell to a Brand-Name Season 2010-05-16T16:55:00Z

“I call it the new vaudeville in that it’s a theatrical experience that involves illusion and goes beyond a strict narrative piece,” Ritchie said. Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2015-2016 season: 'Straight White Men,' Courtney Love 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Lighting was often key to the illusion: each individual strand of fur and the glint in the apes' eyes responded to the light of the forest. 'Dawn of Planet of Apes' marks digital lib for actors 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

The rest of his body is built on an illusion. ‘Bill’s 44th’ Review: Where Are All the Party People? 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

A quote on the chalkboard reads, “I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I’m awake.” 10 top places to eat in Cleveland, for convention-goers and the rest of us 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

The two artists, one modernist, the other postmodernist, use very different visual languages to speak of a universal subject: reality and illusion and how they meet in art. Art Review: ‘Radical Terrain’ at the Rubin Museum of Art 2012-12-27T20:03:54Z

When you see “Night Plumber” on your screen, half of the magic of the illusion is gone. Paintings that Demolish the Myths of What a Home Should Be 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

They are transparent illusions, allowing clear views of the undermining reality beneath. Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

But her demonstrable lack of technique is a problem: Duquesne’s stiffness weakens Mama’s authority and therefore the illusion that she has the power to transform the resistant community-center students who take her class. Is following Emily Post the path to a better world? 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Yet she had few illusions about what would constitute her claim on posterity. Remembering Holly Woodlawn, a Transgender Star of the Warhol Era 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cohen, who is known as the Millionaires’ Magician for his magic show at the Waldorf-Astoria, sets out to run down four illusions from the distant past. Television Review: ‘Lost Magic Decoded,’ With Steve Cohen 2012-10-17T21:55:03Z

And — surprise! — a lot of people thought it was another illusion. From Hollywood’s illusion factory, some unexpected reality 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

For Ernaux, photographs are central to the construction of her narrative — as much for their illusions as for what they reveal. Annie Ernaux caps a remarkable stretch of unorthodox memoirs with 'The Years' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

“I guess not,” comes the reply, and indeed, the way the silky, seemingly gentle, troubled Uncle Peck has shepherded the illusion of consent has been anatomized. Review | Paula Vogel’s ‘How I Learned to Drive’ steers into the #MeToo era 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Yet she never had any illusions about who was really benefiting from these accomplishments. Jennette McCurdy Is Ready to Move Forward, and to Look Back 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

As it repeatedly morphs from humdrum dailiness into espionage maneuvers, “The Expats” pulls off the crazy illusion that these elements actually belong in the same story. Books of The Times: ?The Expats,? a Thriller by Chris Pavone 2012-03-11T19:46:33Z

It’s also about enjoying for a while, through the busyness of planning and Zoom rehearsals, “the illusion, or the hope, that things are normal” at a time when they are absolutely not. When the Wrong Singer for the Song Is Just So Right 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

The drama explores illusion, reality and the comfort imagination can provide. Father and Son Return to the Stage, Together. Again. No Regrets. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The solidity I had assumed of its façade was an illusion. Drawing the Vanishing Restaurants of New York 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Her inclination to write it off as a momentary illusion becomes harder to sustain when she keeps running into the same girl at all her old city haunts, doing the things she once did. Psychological Thrillers That Will Mess With Your Head 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

They are central to ballet’s defining illusion: effortlessness. Man to Man 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Rubens then enhanced the layered illusion by unfurling the picture of a sumptuous tapestry down its right side, letting it spill into the viewer's actual visual space. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

But Bono said he has no illusions about pitting “Ordinary Love” against “Let It Go.” Oscar-Nominated Songs With Familiar Composers 2014-02-19T22:59:00Z

I never did, but the pandemic has stripped away any remaining illusions of control or stability. My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me) 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

I used this as the soundtrack for many films I made as a kid, which created the illusion of them actually being interesting. The Best Soundtracks of All Time 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Some of that is careful attention to acoustics; the rest is the work of musical illusion. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

The scent alone announces itself like an irresistible perfume on a seductress cloaked in the illusion of love. "Better Call Saul": the Cinnabon affair 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

Of course you never see the real person when you fall for someone; you see a self-flattering illusion, and this is triply true with celebrity crushes. Oh, how I loved you, Johnny Depp. Now I see the purple-tinted truth 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Cut to contrive a waist-shrinking illusion Adrian knew all about when he dressed Joan Crawford. | Louis Vuitton Wins! 2011-03-11T03:02:37Z

Movies are all about illusion, but creators of this tour are keen to stress its authenticity. Harry Potter studio to open for public tour 2011-10-13T10:36:09Z

At the same time, there’s a reason I call that an illusion, for our writing is always about us. Missing the point of the reality of fiction 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

“Calibration is simply the act of using an objective instrument to clear away illusions and adjust your judgment to better reflect reality.” 7 Tips to Improve Your Memory 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Richter’s painting of a skull, for instance, is stretched so as to recall the anamorphic illusion of Holbein’s “Ambassadors.” Art in Review: LOUISE LAWLER: ?Fitting at Metro Pictures? 2011-05-19T19:21:48Z

This creates “a false illusion of extreme circumstances,” said David Stukus, a pediatric allergist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, who joined Twitter in 2013 to fight misconceptions by disseminating evidence-based information. Why parents are turning to a controversial treatment for food allergies 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

They don’t create that ghostly illusion of actual living consciousness that novels are supposed to create. What Ever Happened to Hysterical Realism? 2012-07-11T14:00:31Z

In telling Albert’s story impersonally, he feeds the illusion of objectivity that is currently poisoning the larger mediascape. The Reductive Narrative Tactics of “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Another Gang creation unfolds inside Columbia College's Media Production Center, where film students learn to create the illusion of depth on the flat screen. Chicago architect wins MacArthur Fellowship 2011-09-19T05:00:00Z

She continues, as if speaking for the entirety of this book, “there where it is soft and prickly, where you may rub your nose against the grainy sands of illusion and come up bleeding.” Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Korngold, the all-grown-up prodigy who’d had uncommon success in Central Europe around World War I, before defining the sound of Hollywood in exile from Nazism, lived to see his illusions crushed. Has the Time Come for a Long-Ignored Korngold Symphony? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Miskimmon, relocating it to the brittle world of the 1920s, carefully probes the delicate balance between reality and illusion. Mignon ? review 2011-07-12T17:51:21Z

Working with museum educators, young visitors will devise their own optical illusions. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 31-Sept. 6 2012-08-30T22:00:07Z

But each drum is individually fixed in a separate position, creating the illusion of many drums in multiple locations — a dramatic cacophony of rhythms that’s especially noticeable in the track’s drum solo. The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in "Abbey Road" 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

He called it the lost city of Z; others called it El Dorado, a European illusion that proved catastrophic for the New World. Review: Hearts of Darkness and Light in ‘The Lost City of Z’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

What makes painting vital in a predominantly digital age is its ability to wake us from the illusion that some surfaces are more believable and trustworthy than others. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

So all this illusion, subjectivity, layers of virtual filters between us and a reality we may never see clearly — it’s fiction, but it rings oddly familiar. ‘Legion’ and the Rise of Surreality TV 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

“It’s life’s illusions I recall,” she sang at the end of the song, “I really don’t know life at all.” Joni Mitchell Reclaims Her Voice at Newport 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

"Time is an illusion, time is a curse," Grant sings with King on "Our Time Is Now." Review: Grant returns gracefully with new album 2013-05-16T15:48:08Z

Rather than Russia turning into America, as America’s policymakers argued in that great age of illusion, the 1990s, America seems to be turning into Russia. A Conservative’s Case Against Donald Trump 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

I think the easier route is to live under the illusion. The 6 biggest takeaways from Sylvester Stallone’s Netflix documentary “Sly” 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

Mr Hanshaw got the idea after going to an exhibition by Escher, the Dutch artist who created optical illusions by depicting objects that look realistic on first glance, but are actually impossible and surreal. Doctor Who fan creates new TV titles 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

He was also always fascinated with the theatre and theatrical illusion. Jacques Rivette: a subtle master of slow-burn cinema 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Paint’s richness and unpredictability are seen in detail, complete with the illusion of texture. Urs Fischer 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

A riotously colorful, floral-patterned jar of enamel-painted copper, wrapped by a trompe l’oeil pink ribbon tied into a bow in front, delights in contradictory levels of illusion and reality. Art Review: To See a Universe in the Tiny Details of Chinese Artifacts, Boxes to Birds 2010-12-31T23:22:04Z

It's a simple concept - inanimate objects moved infinitesimally and photographed a frame at a time to create an illusion of motion. 'Frankenweenie' joins reanimation of stop-motion 2012-10-04T14:46:17Z

Closure is an illusion, the winking of the eye of a storm. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

"Irrefutably alive" because wedded to life itself in all its messiness, shorn of consolation or illusion. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z

But these hammocks, unlike the one you may have in your backyard, create an illusion of privacy by wrapping around you, like a cocoon. An Amazon Cruise for $17 a Day. Hammock Not Included 2010-06-23T03:00:00Z

Of course we didn’t do that; it was an illusion. Missing Theater Under the Stars (Even the Bugs and the Rain) 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

These all give us the illusion that we are in control of our bodies. When do you know you're old enough to die? Barbara Ehrenreich has some answers 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

These are fantasy battles that measure character along with physical strength and survivalist aplomb—and which, unlike mere video-game challenges, turn illusion into reality: failure will mean actual death. The Apocalypse Will Be Like High School 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

“I saw my illusions dissolve into thin air,” he said. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Why else would he scoot around so doggedly, yanking his movie through time and space, if not to fend off that twinge of dramatic cramp and to boost the illusion of enormity? Apocalypse Now: Bryan Singer’s New “X-Men” Movie 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

That would damage her cultivated illusion that she is a serene, polished success who proves that women can have it all. "Beef" serves up a sizzling hot, blackly comedic revenge story to feed our ongoing panger 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

She then realises it was only an illusion. The Ring of Solomon by Jonathon Shroud - review 2013-05-13T17:00:00Z

In the chateau, mirrors and light create optical illusions, raising the question: Who is the subject, who is the object? Art-world star brings a contemporary perspective to the magnificent Versailles palace 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

But equally, he never had any illusions about growing Soviet influence on the Republic, and could not help noticing how capable Republican security forces looked compared to his own tattered comrades in the militia. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z

Completing a cyclical flow of creativity, the Dutch master of geometrical illusions was inspired to produce his two masterpieces. Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z

The women in Cantet's Heading South were under no illusions about the set-up: would Teresa, here, really not understand what was going on? Cannes 2012: Paradise: Love ? review 2012-05-18T13:18:31Z

But it is also a place where people are stripped of their illusions. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – review 2012-10-10T21:30:01Z

While the format sometimes creates an intriguing illusion of depth, the tinting of the glasses darkens images that are already shadowy. Takashi Miike's moving tale of 'Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai' 2012-08-10T07:16:04Z

But for those who prefer their illusions homemade and their entertainments without layers of technological polish, “Bianco” presents what might be called the artisanal alternative. Review: In ‘Bianco,’ Muscle-Bending, Air-Swimming and Fire-Eating 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

The premise of “Don’t Worry Darling” is juicy enough on its own: Pugh plays a housewife with a picture-perfect 1950s marriage who suspects that the carefully manicured world around her is a sinister illusion. Venice: ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Faces the Press, but Where Is Its Star? 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

In an age when the theatre loves to show that it has nothing up its sleeve, Kieve restores our faith in the power of illusion. The Invisible Man ? review 2010-11-24T21:45:00Z

As he did in “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” Mr. Anderson tells his tale primarily using stop-motion animation, an artisanal process that creates the illusion of movement frame by frame with objects like puppets. Review: Wes Anderson’s Bleakly Beautiful ‘Isle of Dogs’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Any sense of theatrical illusion depends entirely on the dancers and the choreography. Dance Review: Ballet and New Music Mix, Meet and Mingle 2011-06-26T22:30:27Z

In stanza 4, the three-syllable abstract nouns are heavy and sticky, and express the ingrown quality of the wife's mental imprisonment: confusion, illusion, seclusion. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z

The trompe l’oeil artist amplifies the illusion through the choice of subjects and the mastery of brushwork, light effects, foreshortening and other techniques. Review | Two rarely seen paintings offer a peek into the very private world of Paul and Bunny Mellon 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Comics are also finding a lot of material by playing with split screen, like two comics creating the illusion of melded faces or passing a prop from one screen to another. Can You Make Money in Live Comedy Right Now? Some Producers Say Yes 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

The compelling result reinforces the illusion that the quartet is a larger group. ‘El Maquech’ Review: Big Sounds From a Small Group 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Place a large rug parallel to the fireplace, rather than a small one in the center of the room, to create the illusion of a larger seating area. Take a living room from cluttered to comfortable 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

This turns out to be only an illusion. Review: A Nose by Any Other Name in a Hudson Valley ‘Cyrano’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

But whether this memory is truth or illusion Ms. Ziegler leaves tantalizingly unclear. Review: ‘A Delicate Ship’ Plumbs the What-ifs of Love and Heartbreak 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

There is no illusion of a level playing field — it’s a service that works better if you pay for it. Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Even if the actual runtime of a season is as long as it would be if there were more episodes, the natural pauses between episodes give the illusion of a longer journey. Are shorter seasons ruining television? 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

But he refused to reveal how the illusion works. ‘Caught,’ by David Parsons, Performed by Alvin Ailey Dance 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

But the sound of breaking glass that follows reminds us it's all an illusion. The Thrill of Love – review 2013-02-27T18:06:27Z

Or perhaps, as in The Picture of Dorian Gray, it is a two-way relationship, and art reveals truths that the illusion of everyday life conceals. The art of illusion 2011-04-06T16:36:37Z

Even the gentle noise of lapping waves is a sort of illusion. Does It Matter if a Documentary Is Staged? These Two Films Hold Answers 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

The prose surrounding Jay Gatsby is so good it allows us to share Nick's vision of his largeness of soul and the heroism of his quest, to celebrate "the colossal vitality of his illusion". Why Gatsby is so great 2012-06-09T23:05:21Z

It’s harder for the illusion to work, and relies on delicate calibration. Review: Making S’mores Around the Campfire at the Apocalypse 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

"Hard Light" centers on moving pictures — a fictional hallucinogenic experimental film, "Thanatrope," about the experience of death; and thaumatropes, ancient artifacts that create the illusion of motion with two images that blur together when spun. Elizabeth Hand's mystery series takes on art and death on the way to whodunit in 'Hard Light' 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

The unit also recorded sounds of troop and vehicle movements, which were blared from speakers in the back of trucks to create an auditory illusion. Television Review: ‘The Ghost Army,’ on PBS, About the 23rd Headquarters 2013-05-20T20:46:56Z

But she holds no illusions as to the popularity of what she does. HBO's "Crazy, Not Insane" brings understanding of serial killers, if you have the stomach for it 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

The illusion is almost perfect, with tones of green that fade from the near black of the peel to a grassy pale color in the divot where the pit should go. A Chef Dreams in Mexican at Empellón in Midtown 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Her pieces, she said, explore “the problem of the illusion of perfection.” Laura Letinsky’s Food Photography 2012-10-09T22:53:17Z

When they showed up in an abandoned mission, looking like modified Caspers or Shmoos, I thought that they might be breezes, or illusions. “Ghosts”: Raina Telgemeier Returns 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

For Sandy, the pressure to be respectable comes from Aunt Tempy, Aunt Hager’s oldest child, who avoids visiting her washerwoman mother in an effort to preserve the illusion of her middle-class upbringing. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Or has the painter’s imagination done what so many minds do in the theater — fleshed out the illusion into something that seems as or more real than anything outside? Review | It was at the Paris Opéra that Degas found the whole world — and his own tormented self 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Maybe it was one of those illusions, like how my brother and I joked as children about the miniature people inside the TV. Rapture in the Zoom 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Who creates an illusion but refuses to complete it? Review: A World of Cardsharps and Zoom Dupes in ‘The Future’ 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

It gives me the illusion that I am in control of a universe that, on some days, terrifies me with its randomness. I swallow my fear 2013-04-04T00:00:00Z

In the days before social media democratized fashion — or gave the illusion of democracy — Combs studied the ways of the fashion industry, played by its rules and claimed victory. They laughed when Diddy launched a fashion line. Then he changed the industry. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Casting directors’ work, he adds, is “absolutely essential to the illusion of the art”. Casting directors are essential to any great film – so where are their Oscars? 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Eight-time Oscar-winning costume designer Edith Head once explained that what she did was a cross between "magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not." Edith Head, the best sort of designing woman 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

But this criminal justice reform, like many of its predecessors, offers the illusion of real reform and has a sting in its tail. Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

There, art is poised between the shadowy illusion below and the clear California sun above. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

Born in Geneva in 1969, and living in Caracas, Venezuela, Mr. Molina-Pantin specializes in images that simultaneously project and undercut illusions of confident power. Art in Review: Luis Molina-Pantin: ‘Modus Operandi’ 2013-07-25T21:04:01Z

The magnified nicks and dents come across as sculptured texture, introducing the abstracting illusion of an artistic process that never happened. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

Techno-fixes create an illusion of helping the planet when all they do is help capitalism generate more profit, the film argues. Why "Planet of the Humans," Michael Moore’s new film about green energy, is so controversial 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

I have one prop, an old suitcase, and the rest is just creating an illusion. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z

Adults €2, concessions €1 The church of illusions. 10 of the best museums and gallleries in Rome 2011-07-13T09:00:00Z

With magicians, it’s a trick, it’s not seeing all of the work that goes into an illusion. Sarah Ruhl and Rebecca Taichman on Conjuring ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

Few popular movies are so predicated on sudden death and irrevocable loss, while still offering the promise — or illusion — of hope. Still Stoking Terror: The Hopeless World of ‘Children of Men’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

With gigs generating more cash than album releases, there are more tours than ever before, but artists are under no illusion about what would happen if they knocked over a vending machine. Rock decor 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z

The French director was a master of illusion: he segued from stage conjuror to fantasy film-maker when, in 1896, he began to experiment with a movie camera designed by English inventor RW Paul. Dead famous: the Kickstarter campaign to restore Méliès's grave 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

So my family, like many others, stuck to this illusion about the Wehrmacht not being Nazis, just being soldiers. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z

It’s a very compelling illusion and one that is very difficult to break. Mind games: what magic reveals about how our brains work 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

"It's just that art creates a beautiful illusion." We mean it, maaan!: the lost art of the pop manifesto 2010-04-29T20:30:00Z

After this experience, he could have had no illusions about the ruthlessness of the Nazis, and his suffering seems to have sharpened his already intense hatred of his tormentors and his desire to escape them. The Real Great Escape by Guy Walters – review 2012-05-23T13:40:01Z

Art historians have dubbed the painter “The Master of the Baroncelli portraits,” a denomination that gives a comforting illusion of knowledge. Old Masters Rush In to Save the Day 2010-12-10T12:42:00Z

In fact, I am quite certain that time itself is much more of an illusion than we are capable of understanding with our body-mind.” Wayne W. Dyer, Prolific Author of Self-Help Books, Dies at 75 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

These selections, along with the pictures, create a powerful illusion of immediacy, a sense of the personality disclosed and obscured by the art. Review: ‘Eva Hesse’ Offers a Moving Portrait of an Artist’s Brief Life 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Unspoken truths threaten to pull apart one family's illusions about itself. Home Fires by Elizabeth Day – review 2013-03-14T17:00:01Z

Yet the illusion is shockingly unconvincing, just as it was half a century ago. 'Zookeeper': Talking-animal tale is hard to swallow 2011-07-06T23:38:11Z

An entertainer with no romantic illusions and no self-pity, Ms. Maye is a natural feminist, although she might not accept that designation. Music Review: Marilyn Maye Salutes Johnny Carson at 54 Below 2014-05-08T21:20:40Z

Furthermore, as he observed in our interview, Black is under no illusions that his career is suddenly taking a dark new direction. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z

This fosters the illusion that I’m tidying up. Perspective | I did not spend my summer binge-watching TV. Here are the books I loved instead. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

It clears a path for the closing “Wonder 2,” which fills the sky with imaginary vapor trails, and creates the illusion of being strapped Icarus-like into a jet eight miles high and climbing. Album review: My Bloody Valentine, 'm b v' 2013-02-04T16:43:00Z

That’s always good for giving me the illusion of a healthy glow. Jodie Comer on Her Killer Beauty Regimen 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

The deliberately awkward marriage of flattish figures with a woodland that is like a phoney stage set raises profound questions about the nature of illusion in art. Picasso in Britain and Lucian Freud ? the week in art 2012-02-10T17:29:24Z

No other course offers help to Israelis and Palestinians alike, to all those living side by side in enmity in this region occupied by illusions, and ultimately, to all of us. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

Variety film critic Justin Chang said that while Kutcher carried a physical resemblance to Jobs, "the illusion never fully seizes to hold." Ashton Kutcher explores the glamour and glitches of Steve Jobs 2013-08-15T12:10:09Z

The fish that pulls the boat reveals himself at the end as the deity, Brahma, who teaches them austerities so they might acquire power over illusions. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z

This notion of suffering offers the illusion of control: if we believe that our pain is a form of punishment, then that pain isn’t meaningless. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

Most importantly these findings illustrate that even our sense of free will may prove to be a powerful illusion. Mind games: what magic reveals about how our brains work 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

For the Hassingers’ den, Anne Turner chose a fan pleat design and installed the curtains at ceiling height to create the illusion of taller windows. Real Life Redo: Den Do-Over 2010-11-19T16:21:00Z

The intent was to create the illusion of troop strength or to make it seem as if an offensive would be launched in one place, when the true attack point was different. Television Review: ‘The Ghost Army,’ on PBS, About the 23rd Headquarters 2013-05-20T20:46:56Z

The persistence of the Timbisha in Death Valley destroys that illusion, which is also the illusion of American innocence. The Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley and the Shadow of Trump 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

“UnReal” functions in the same way as much “Bachelor” criticism and analysis does, stripping apart the show’s artifice while still not dismissing the power of its illusion. “UnREAL” nails reality TV: 5 reasons why this behind-the-scenes drama is a “Bachelor” hate-watcher’s dream 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

And yet upon arriving in France, he had no illusions that Paris was among the “most civilized of cities,” nor did he consider the French among the “least primitive of peoples.” James Baldwin’s Paris 2014-01-17T21:44:03Z

The illusions devised by Paul Kieve add yet another gleeful dimension. Matilda, can you hear me? 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

The composition instructs the viewer on how to correctly look into the painting's illusion of deep space, successfully succumbing to the painter's formal directives. 5 pieces in the Broad collection that highlight Pop art history 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

It does have that element of the concrete, or the illusion of it, so you do think sometimes that perhaps a city is out there somewhere, although clearly most of them can’t possibly be. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

But it also contains elements of illusion and fantasy. My BF went Twitter-crazy 2012-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mobility, surface, illusion, or the way artificial lighting forms cities at night, are less important to him. David Chipperfield: master of permanence 2011-02-06T00:06:23Z

Part of the society’s Summer of Magic, a salute to all kinds of illusion, this themed weekend will begin on Friday night at 7 with a screening of “Houdini,” a PBS documentary. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

The undefined bounds of illusion produce a percolating doubt that you’re being lead, or are leading yourself, astray. Magic, meth and mayhem: behind the year's most mind-bending documentary 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

Wiktor is a Polish expat playing African-American music in Paris, pursuing an illusion of freedom as Zula — whom he calls the woman of his life — performs communist kitsch and gradually falls to pieces. ‘Cold War’ Review: Love Without Borders 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

It’s enough to dampen any illusions about South Africa as an entirely unified nation. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

But even that event didn’t fully dispense with the illusion. "Watchmen" creator and star: This is America's history, not just black or white history 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

At first he showed magic lantern slides, some of which “dissolved” between two static images to create an illusion of movement. How did some of cinema's greatest films end up in an Iowa shed? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

There's another great transforming moment when the baddies are bamboozled by a shapeshifting illusion. The Tempest ? review 2011-03-18T22:00:01Z

For Mr. McGinley, it’s a shift away from everything he is known for: working in color, often outdoors, with distance and the illusion of spontaneity. Last Chance: Ryan McGinley at Team, and Catherine Opie at Gladstone 2010-04-13T21:27:00Z

We maintain the illusion that typing on one’s phone is a social act. Alone in the dark 2012-07-20T15:55:00Z

By shooting people in their residences, he was flouting a convention that allows urban dwellers to coexist in tight proximity with the shared illusion of personal privacy. Were These Photographs Voyeurism, or Art? 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

One was devised specifically for this stage: “Speed of Light,” a teleportation illusion. Spare Times for Children Listings for Nov. 18-24 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

"I set films very often in the past because I can create the illusion more tantalizingly." Woody Allen conjures up illusion for 'Magic in the Moonlight' 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, on the vessel’s alternating seven-day itineraries of the Eastern and Western Caribbean, undiluted illusion rules. Disney's Fantastic Voyage 2012-06-01T18:10:44Z

She makes sure that readers understand one of his most extraordinary gifts: “Creating the illusion that the people you see are equally aware of your presence.” Review: ‘The Vanishing Velázquez’ Tells of Art Obsession 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

Trapped in rooms full of illusions and satanic dolls, Logan’s show hits the visual storytelling notes it needs to. Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny Dreadful 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Control has probably been an illusion for them all along. 'The Americans' Recap: The Moment Finally Arrives 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Signori conjures great depths, but floats these illusions atop unabsorbent surfaces. Review | At the galleries: How humans threaten the natural world 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

In short, I am under no illusions about my appearance. Dear Wikipedia: Please change my photo! 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Projections also help create the illusions of movement. In ‘Back to The Future: The Musical,’ the Car Is the Star of the Show 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Few films have given me the illusion of understanding another’s journey this year more than Midnight Traveler; few films show more power in the quiet moments. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

Bitter and all out of illusions, she told Gabriel to leave and never come back. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 9: Tuan on the Bus 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The second ring in the circus is “Lincoln, Lonnie and Me — A Story in 5 Parts,” a 2012 work that takes the form of a 19th-century optical illusion called “Pepper’s Ghost.” Carrie Mae Weems Sets the Stage and Urges Action 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

She still loves to perform, but she has no illusions about which way her career, and life, are headed. Books Of Style: Annabelle Gurwitch’s New Book Asks Questions About Aging 2014-03-21T21:06:42Z

What can you say about the film's themes of truth and illusion? "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Music by Robert Fripp supplemented the illusion, and, as usual, “Caught” brought the audience to its feet. Alvin Ailey at Dorothy Chandler: Brutality chic in modern dance 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

The geometry works, but so does the illusion. In the Garden: Thea Alvin on Life With Pebbles and Bam Bam 2013-07-17T23:02:03Z

Mr. Oursler’s work employs “Pepper’s ghost” — an illusion technique used in haunted houses — to track the development of the virtual image, which overlaps with the artist’s own family history. MoMA Galleries to Change Their Focus 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Burt's final wave goodbye – topped with the simplest of illusions, a door magically closing by itself –a cheeky, unexpected, old school Hollywood moment. Mad Men recap: season seven, episode seven – Waterloo 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

But, as it happens in our own culture, that illusion of safety can only be maintained if women are willing to accept constricted lives in virtual prisons where men cannot touch them. Review | A dystopian novel takes on rape culture 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

In losing her illusions, though, Swift gains strength, perspective and resilience — not a bad trade-off. Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ (Lindsay’s Version) 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

And with “If the illusion is real, let them give you a ride,” he foresaw everything to come in the 1980s. Ric Ocasek’s Essential Songs: Listen to 11 Tracks 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

“Such a big theme of the movie is trying to determine what’s truth and what’s illusion, and there are still some things I don’t know. So I’m going to stay cryptic on that.” Stabbed tongues and swallowed eyeballs: was the Amazing Johnathan's terminal diagnosis his greatest trick? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

I have no Rousseau-esque illusions that these people live better lives. That Voice Inside Your Head? It May Be His 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

The Marvel movies and others of their kind often produce an illusion of profundity, a slick, murky overlay of allegorical suggestiveness. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: It’s Marvel’s Universe. We Just Live in It. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

The painted ceiling demonstrates the illusions of Baroque’s trompe l’oeil. Academic adventures: Visiting Europe’s top university sights 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Back then, her only knitting skill was basic hand crochet, a far cry from the highly technical futuristic knits and optical illusion patterns that have become her signature. The Designers Who Are Making Knitwear Cool 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

You need a certain perspective on it, to say, “This is fun, but it’s an illusion.” With ‘57th and 9th,’ Sting Changes His Mind About Rock 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Not only does the moon appear to change shape by way of an optical illusion, it also appears to move across the sky. Ever wondered why you can see the moon sometimes during the day? 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

This was when Chinese Democracy was still an illusion we could all use. Guns N' Roses fail to ignite Reading festival 2010 2010-08-28T15:09:00Z

Tell us a secret It’s all an illusion anyway. Shirley MacLaine: ‘The best kiss of my life? A director I worked with. I can’t say who’ 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

“Having those live musicians on the stage really helps bring the illusion to life. We try to avoid the sense that you’re watching a video presentation.” This singer is part hologram, part avatar, and might be the pop star of the future 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

In their view, it is the offbeat, dissonant, original, flamboyant detail that creates the illusion of perfection. In the Book ‘The Killer Detail,’ Considering the Essence of Chic 2013-12-06T23:33:21Z

Ever since Penn and Teller burst on the scene, every magician seemed to be deconstructing illusions while doing them. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

And as the grim postscript before the end credits of "Bombshell" makes clear, the punchline in all of this is still the illusion of justice. The cathartic laughs of "Bombshell": Why dark comedy speaks to us in the #MeToo era 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

That illusion is of ignorance, of imagining a better world full of whimsy and bodacious thrills where nothing bad ever happens. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

The ushers hand you a button at the end of each part asking you keep the shows’ secrets, and so I will dispense with describing some of the wonder-filled illusions. Review | The charms of Harry Potter work on Broadway — but read the books first 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

In rental cars, I roll down the windows to create the illusion of infinity. At Studio Theatre, the elevator operator runs this show 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

“I have no illusion that we can just snap our fingers,” said Siegel, the managing director of Lincoln Center Theater. Live Performance Is Back. But Audiences Have Been Slow to Return. 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

If life is real and art is an illusion, does the life of an artist glide between illusion and truth? The art of illusion 2011-04-06T16:36:37Z

Though “Candide” may strip its title character of all illusions, it does so by making happy use of the grand illusion that is the art of theater. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Stripped of Illusions, but Still Glittering and Gay 2014-01-23T17:10:33Z

Or, to approach the differences from another angle: The sculptures in “Like Life” keep asking you to judge their lifelikeness, to believe the illusion. Review: At Met Breuer, Dancers Try to Be Like Life, Too 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

What they believed in or mistrusted, what illusions, hopes and fears they experienced. Why author Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature: She's a teller of secrets 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

A central flaw is that the illusion is not intrinsic to the human condition but rather a key factor in market capitalism. Gatsby and the way we live now 2013-05-31T16:27:58Z

We are the weirdos who feel most alive skulking through the darkness, secure in the illusion that we own the world for at least a few precious hours every night while everyone else slumbers. Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Jamie Harrison’s illusions, the stuff of phoenix feather and unicorn horn, are an absolute astonishment. Review: ‘Harry Potter’ Back Onstage, Streamlined and Still Magical 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

But despite her efforts to adjust the temperature, the director is under no illusion that she’s in control. ‘Maggie’s Plan’ director has created a comedy about our ‘contemporary confusion’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

An artist who dealt in theatrical illusion and metaphor seemed to be sending a DM about his own coming death, a message that would only arrive when he was physically gone. Popcast: Love, Death and David Bowie 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

I think it's hard to have the objectivity to create a persona that gives the illusion of being you but isn't. Richard Ayoade: Mr Modest 2011-01-15T00:03:59Z

In such rarefied air, illusions seemed to provide little immunity. My terrifying Kilimanjaro climb: How I expanded my limits, but almost lost my mind 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

Reinforcing the illusion, an onstage television set played footage of this area, reoriented to a normal perspective. A fever dream come to life in ‘Poor People’s TV Room’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Often used in restaurants and hotels, they create the illusion that an area is larger and better lighted. Small spaces: The old mirror trick

“I was living under some illusion that she was here forever. It is affecting me even now in ways I’m probably 3 percent aware of.” Andrew Garfield contains multitudes 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Scruffy, sad eyed and taciturn, bowed down by the crushing knowledge of his own frailty, Charlie is the farthest thing from a histrionic drunk living on grand illusions. | 'Touching Home': Ed Harris Stars as an Alcoholic Father 2010-05-13T22:53:00Z

As even the title suggests, this mix of variety, illusion and circus is stranded somewhere between heaven and hell. Limbo – review 2013-05-21T11:49:02Z

Image and illusion are routinely taken for substance, a confusion that reaches its climax in the simple but resonant coup de théâtre that ends the show. Festivals In Review: Warring Relatives and Joking Rabbis 2011-01-15T00:29:04Z

This improbable illusion is achieved and sustained with such artful and ingenious simplicity that I almost hate to describe it to anyone who plans to see the play. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

But I am under no illusions about what the future might hold for us. Love and Betrayal in America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

So the difference between being good and great is less about the radical novelty of the illusion than the packaging, the persona and the rigor of the performance. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

However, the Georgetown University Law professor is under no illusion that interracial romances and marriages will overcome the anxiety and tension surrounding race relations. “Loving” author on how slow racial equality progress can be: “We still have that kind of politics” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

There’s no other way to explain the level of exploitation that goes on unless it’s being sustained by an illusion of that kind. ‘A Level of Abuse’: Laying Bare Theater’s Dirty Secrets 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s a consciously constructed illusion of spontaneous self-revelation, a sincere put-on. Looking Good Is Not the Point: What Artists Bare in Self-Portraits 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

In "Life of Pi," like Martin Scorsese's "Hugo," the 3-D images are tantalizing and immersive, pulling viewers deeper into Pi's world so that the illusion of depth becomes essential to the story. Review: Lee's 'Life of Pi' is inspiring 3-D art 2012-11-19T15:14:09Z

In the final moments, the neurosurgeon recalls arguing that consciousness is merely an illusion that “emerges only from the raw material of our speech and perceptions.” As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

I've spent my career in theatre, so I'm comfortable with the difference between illusion and reality. I won big on "Jeopardy!" So why does it still haunt me? 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z

A "taster" for Cellar Door included little packets of flavourless sweets, dubbed "the taste of illusion". Artist of the week special: Loris Greaud, Cyprien Gaillard, Tatiana Trouv? 2011-03-23T16:12:48Z

Mr. Barris, who liked to read classic literature and paint in his spare time, was under no illusion about what he had created for television. Chuck Barris, ‘Gong Show’ host, author of ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ dies at 87 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

It considers some of the most pressing concerns of this technology-fuelled era, such as the illusion of privacy and the loneliness of hyper-connectedness. Searching and slouching 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Lhuillier, a favorite source for celebrity gowns, presented a bright aqua lace gown draped with a tulle overlay that gave the illusion of rippling waves - and so did a one-shoulder tiered gown in crepe. Skin is forever in at NY Fashion Week 2012-09-09T15:12:09Z

In fact, the production or heightening of illusions on display in “Up the Illusion” is a radical kind of honesty. On a New York Street, Windows Become Theaters for Ken Jacobs’s Films 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

And the illusions created by the dresses that followed were fascinating to see in motion. On the Runway Blog: Marchesa: Under the Sea 2011-09-13T22:29:01Z

Or just because they suck you into "a vortex of supernatural illusion" without actually taking you anywhere. Flatpack film festival turns spotlight on Takashi Ito 2010-04-01T15:00:00Z

The brutality with which he obtains it, then casually slings it away on discovering it to be sour, is sufficient to shatter any sentimental illusions about childhood within the first two minutes. Blue Remembered Hills - review 2013-05-02T14:05:36Z

The reflective surface creates the illusion of fullness. How to Make Your Lips Look Bigger Without Needles 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Tristan is like many of Hale’s characters — controlled by something outside of them, but under the illusion that they’re actually in charge. Benjamin Hale treats troubled characters with care in 'The Fat Artist and Other Stories' 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

His ideal was to hold up the illusion of democratic empowerment while curbing democratic impulses through a voracious cycle of consumerism that would pique and then sate people’s desires. The beautiful Airstream myth and painful RV reality of life on the road 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Children use their illusion to deal with their own problems. It’s really beautiful.” The Screening Room: “(Otto)” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

A muscular, Springsteen-via-'80s-pop surge, it's a nostalgic and earnest look at the illusion of perfect love—and the perils of viewing someone as salvation. The top 15 modern rock #1 hits that actually stand the test of time 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

“I’m a little past the right age, but there’s the illusion theater provides,” he said, with a sly smile. George Takei on his life and career, subject of Sundance doc 2014-01-24T21:34:16Z

To read the book is to grow acutely familiar with the landscape of Hubei, even if Yu offers no illusions about farming life. Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

When spun, it created an optical illusion that formed the shape of a heart. Modern Love: Speaking at Arm?s Length With Music 2011-02-24T22:56:15Z

Lists are wonderful precisely because they create the happy illusion of order. The power of writing lists… that make no difference to our lives at all 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

The nine-piece collection, for the Hong Kong– based rug company Tai Ping, uses shading to replicate folds and mixes fibers to create the illusion of contour, all to lush, dazzling effect. Fashion Designer Han Feng Collaborates with Tai Ping on a Dazzling Rug Collection 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Memento Mori is a kind of moral fable, whose ultimate aim is not to create an illusion of life but to defamiliarise it for an instructive purpose. Rereading: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

As a mad chase ensues, “Abduction” stokes the illusion that Nathan is suddenly the most important person in the world. | 'Abduction': Taylor Lautner in ?Abduction? - Review 2011-09-22T21:41:13Z

In a story that constantly highlights the gap between appearance and reality, the power of illusion and the importance of dreams, there's more than a hint of fairytale and theatre about it. Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner – review 2012-12-28T22:55:01Z

“That really is critical… in terms of breaking down this stereotype or dangerous illusion that students often have that everyone else is doing certain activities.” Clemson Pulls Training Program That Asked Students About Sex Lives 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

It recurs as a portal ushering the listener through each of the Fantasia's brief, concentrated segments, all the way to the final unison chord which, if struck correctly, conjures the illusion of a church organ. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

The antidote to her feelings of inadequacy, she decided, was “to be free of illusions.” Books Of Style: Three Books on Becoming a Better You — Books of Style 2013-01-04T19:17:52Z

The HeidleBurger boasts “Best Burgers in Town,” and even the 76 station, Starbucks and Howard Johnson’s are in on the illusion, their corporate identities trumped, for once, by a civic thematic mission. Leavenworth it? Assessing 2 new spots in the Pacific Northwest’s little Bavaria 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Many of the people on screen are ghosts, rendered immortal — or at least undead — by the machinery of illusion. Critic’s Notebook: In ‘The Clock,’ You Always Know the Time 2012-07-16T20:15:34Z

By contrast, those studying vision made much use of common mistakes such as visual illusions. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

“Don’t be under any illusions,” one longtime ABC News executive said, asking not to be identified criticizing management’s decision. Jimmy Kimmel’s New Time Slot May Seal Fate of ‘Nightline’ 2012-08-26T22:15:15Z

The researchers also found something called the “line crossing illusion,” which is when people think they’re crossing a line even when their co-workers think they’re behaving appropriately. Uh, oh. The Biggest Jerk At Work Might Be You 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

There are some amusing moments, to be sure, and some touching ones as well, but the film is less interested in ideas or emotions than in illusions. Review: ‘Dior and I,’ a Documentary That Peers Into a Storied Fashion House 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Consider, please, the labor — and the layers, oh, the layers — that go into creating the illusion of supreme majesty as it was practiced by the woman who gave the Elizabethan Age its name. Review: ‘texts&beheadings/ElizabethR,’ the English Queen in Her Multifaceted Majesty 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Nothing here is likely to carry him far beyond bauble-prone collectors and celebrity-besotted glossies, but these days, it is usually enough to create the illusion of a career. Helmut Lang at Sperone Westwater 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

“The outside illusion is great,” she told The Times. Meghan Stabile, Who Linked Jazz and Hip-Hop, Dies at 39 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pendleton’s production gives the illusion of letting life happen as it happens, unscripted and untidy, with destiny-changing events often occurring not center stage but, as W. H. Auden put it, “anyhow in a corner.” | 'Three Sisters': Russian Ennui, American Idiom 2011-02-04T03:01:38Z

The actor Ian Hart’s uncanny impersonation of the young Lennon helps to sustain that illusion, too. The Front Row: “The Hours and Times” 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

“All that!” a joyous Marc Jacobs said backstage after a presentation of super short and super long outfits, both playing with the idea of optical illusions. Marc Jacobs: Optical Allusions 2012-09-11T17:04:44Z

It is here that the supposed idealism which motivated Thanos is revealed to be an illusion, and Thanos is identified as a true monster without even the facade of a noble cause to redeem himself. The politics of "Avengers: Endgame" 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Is it an illusion because it’s really just a bunch of atoms? ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

But instead of looking at her directly, he gazes at her reflection in a series of mirrors, underscoring the illusion that is soon to be shattered. Schreker's opera 'Distant Sound' heard at Bard 2010-07-31T19:01:00Z

Stretching the surface area of the walls creates the illusion of height and space. How to make the most of a small rental 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Maybe it was an illusion — of course it was an illusion — but the planet seemed more gentle when Downton was king. The ‘Downton Abbey’ cast wants to take you back to a more innocent time — 2012 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Her monochrome canvases at Cherry & Martin are irregularly shaped or textured panels that hover somewhere between painting and sculpture, illusion and presence. Jennifer Boysen's paintings stretch the form 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

"The illusion is that a circle surrounded by other circles looks smaller the larger the surrounding circles are." Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z

All of this will create an illusion of a sparkling clean kitchen. Lessons in speed-cleaning your kitchen, learned from a video set 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

He is an avid backstage photographer; his photos capture the introspective moment just before a dancer plunges into the brightly lit illusion of the stage. Troy Schumacher Prepares His First Work for City Ballet 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

From there, the designer quickly shifted his attention to hand-painted shading, optical illusion prints and a 3-D braided effect that drew the eye in, techniques that created a sense of depth. Special Report: Fashion: Gabriele Colangelo and Marco de Vincenzo in Milan 2011-09-25T16:48:43Z

But even in that motley crew, Bellamy seemed more comfortable in the outsiders’ community of dreams and illusions than in the world of bourgeois cash and carry. Dick Bellamy: The Man Hiding at the Center of Everything 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Still, for a mellow, confident hour, he ran me and nine other windows through various illusions, some dazzling. Is the Hand Quicker Than the Zoom Window? 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

“The idea was, how do we create the illusion that we’re not prepared for the action that’s about to unfold?” he said.   ‘The Office’ Finale 2013-05-01T12:00:01Z

As he sings about reality versus consoling illusion, the music trudges through Beatles-like chords with an undertow of simulated, sustained strings, building to a chorus with sighing harmonies. The Playlist: The Gospel According to Alicia Keys 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

I can conclusively prove that death is a perspective illusion of the third dimension and that none of us have anything to worry about. Alan Moore Digs Up 'Unearthing' and Lays His Comics Career to Rest 2010-07-26T22:05:00Z

The truth is, bars like smaller glasses because they create the illusion of lower-priced beer. Why you can’t get a pint in a beer bar anymore 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

The binary fire-engine siren of the violin’s opening line grew multiple dimensions as the distortion created the illusion of spatial and acoustic depth. Critic’s Notebook: Monica Germino Melds Violin and Electronics 2013-06-16T21:51:17Z

This duality of meanings is reflected in the optical illusion rendered by Mr. Polke in the glass. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z

So rather than trying to sell an illusion, why not celebrate an enviable reality? Why can't Kirstie Alley be honest about her size? 2011-04-22T18:56:00Z

Whether in graceful compositions of sun-faded, coloured sugar paper or large frescoes built up from layers of watercolour wash, his simple geometric arrangements telescope into space-changing illusions. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

The illusion of choice amid such plenty is easy to sustain, but it’s largely false; you’re being herded by algorithms from purchase to purchase. This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Maybe because the apps are tantalizingly efficient — or at least maintain an illusion of efficiency. A Local Alternative to the Big Delivery Apps, in Los Angeles 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

Here, though, the form forces her to create an illusion of drama through a kind of solo montage. Review: Staging a True Family Nightmare in ‘Accidentally Brave’ 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Between Kelley’s knack for melding irony and suffering and Vallée’s dreamy attention to the illusions that prop up the characters’ coastal California bliss, “Big Little Lies” becomes a sinfully pleasurable and even thought-provoking experience. Review | How HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies’ transcends the usual rich-mommies drama 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

She troubles the line that stretches from illusion to delusion, and in these anxious cultural times, her incisiveness and brilliant humor are particularly apt. The Underdog on Post-it notes and other nostalgic bits, revived with a twist 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Let me just say that this play puts very specific demands on most of its cast members, who are portraying not just illusions but also variations on those illusions. | 'The Illusion': Phantasmagorical Adventures of a Missing Son 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z

Jett appears to a true team player to one crime boss while exercising the thin illusion of trustworthiness to another. How Cinemax's "Jett" does nudity — and plenty of it — right 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

That combination of qualities enlivened the Chopin too, and created the illusion that the orchestral scoring here was as inventive as the piano writing. Music Review: The Brahms Behind the Schoenberg 2011-04-11T20:30:33Z

The rinse persuades the brain to accept an illusion – an illusion that the brain then acts on, leading to a real-world rise in performance. Can you improve performance by rinsing your mouth with carbs? 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

The illusion dissolves when he chucks it over a chair – revealing a wrinkled black T‑shirt, old jeans and stained black boots – plonks in a chair and orders a beer. Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long they will rebel against you’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

The new series features one illusion where he walks down the side of the LA Times building. Saturday interview: Dynamo, the magician who walks on water 2012-07-06T23:05:33Z

In league with Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and other theater visionaries, Brook shifted modern drama away from the illusion of detailed realism. Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z

Mr. Blaine, 45, has become one of the most well-known magicians in popular culture with his mix of dangerous stunts and illusions. David Blaine Under Investigation on Two Sexual Assault Complaints, Police Say 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

It is a gorgeous anarchy, even if it contains illusions and errors. Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

In a time when so much is left to chaos and shrugs and incompetence, the show offers the comforting illusion that some omniscient force is in control of what happens. Perspective | ‘This Is Us’ finally delivers some of Beth’s backstory — and more proof of a master plan 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Ivanka compares herself to a runner positioned on the outside track, whose head start at the beginning is just an illusion. Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

The Times - Libby Purves Puppetry and illusions earn due gasps, and I really want one of those giant squirrel costumes to wear on Christmas Day. Critics divided over Charlie merits 2013-06-26T10:57:40Z

While elaborating on empowerment and its illusions, “Physical” is the rare series — comedy or drama — to take a profound look at disordered eating. Rose Byrne and Annie Weisman Get Into ‘Physical’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

This brilliant, viciously amusing takedown of bourgeois complacency, gender stereotypes and assumptions and the illusion of security rubs your face in human frailty as relentlessly as any Michael Haneke movie. ‘Force Majeure,’ a Dark Swedish Comedy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

He worked at the greatest library in the world, and he brought me books about everything from illusions to ceremonial magic to fortunetelling. This magician and mentalist explains how anything you think can become a reality 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

Crouch and his cohorts, an anatomist and theorist, will speak directly to the audience as they cut into Osborne’s body, eliminating any illusion of a fourth wall. Human dissection as opera: It's the REDCAT world premiere of David Lang's 'Anatomy Theater' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

And power is a deftly maintained illusion that commands strength, allowing the likes of a eunuch and a dwarf to exercise influence far beyond their physical abilities. Game of Thrones Watch: A Trick, A Shadow on a Wall 2012-04-16T10:40:01Z

People who already have some power, who deeply understand the press, who give the illusion of being outsiders and can rile a crowd to their bidding? If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

They punctured her illusions that their relationship was a special romance. France’s #MeToo: Book on child-sex writer prompts outcry 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

The illusion of male dominance, however, needed to be maintained. Ted Peckham's 'Gentlemen For Rent' 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Like with the video game, the illusion of endless possibilities allows the narrative to seem to more naturally arrive at its conclusions. Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

I had to revisit the vipers’ nest, that dangerous and glamorous cradle of illusions found within one square mile of the cold, concrete heart of Manhattan. Falling in Love Again With ‘All About Eve’ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

This melding of techniques resulted in an illusion that received high marks from a Dartmouth study group researching the so-called uncanny valley, a metric of empathy for nonhuman faces. Deepfake Technology Enters the Documentary World 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

The anti-romanticism of “Café Society,” the lesson of heartbreak and crushed dreams of love, arises from its romanticism of youthful illusions. Youthful Illusions in Woody Allen’s “Café Society” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

We can have no illusions about the discouragements which lie ahead. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

That’s why, when watching a film of a humble magic trick, you feel no sense of wonder, for the stunt has already been accomplished in a medium that’s all about illusion. Movie Review: ‘Now You See Me,’ Directed by Louis Leterrier 2013-05-30T21:29:58Z

His writing takes on the great riddles of existence — freedom and consciousness, truth and illusion, suffering and transcendence — spinning them into shimmering, allegorical texts. It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

The fantasy of the film depends on maintaining that illusion, but the longevity of A Star Is Born relies on us believing celebrities are special – stars. Female success and male decline: what A Star Is Born tells us about fame, fear and feminism 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

But she is stripped of these illusions by the responses of everyone around her. Review: Sexual Assault as Both History Lesson and Satire 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

Maybe the illusion is all “Hollywood glamour” ever was, but there is a lot more game yet to change. From Gap-lite to ‘rule-breakers’: the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Completely smitten, the tramp tries to maintain her illusion. Review: ‘City Lights’ and ‘ Fantasia’ at the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

They’re all, to varying degrees, still caught up in the idealization of the family, the illusion that they might be seen or loved. Emma Cline on Anger and Nostalgia 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Dinner at the Lost Kitchen is an occasion, and most restaurants of its caliber work to maintain an illusion of effortless perfection. How Erin French Made a Tiny Maine Town a Dining Destination 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Sonny rustled leaves, to heighten the illusion of careless grazing: swish, swish. Explorer: Hunting Pesky Pigs in Hawaii 2013-05-15T16:18:58Z

And, of course, we can conjure the illusion of intimacy with famous women as we scroll through their Instagram profiles and consume their Snapchat feeds, dispensing or withholding likes. The Rise of the Social Media Fembot 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

Hoover liked to weave a lot of illusions of slimy, slippery animals into his speeches at that time. film: Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood?s ?J. Edgar? 2011-11-02T12:13:02Z

Beautiful Illusion: Residential designer Ankie Barnes created the illusion of greater space by replacing the original windows with French doors to add more light and showcase the view. 2010-02-08T16:51:00Z

Those trademark shades, along with the character's deadpan personality, helped a lot in creating the illusion. Arnold Schwarzenegger freaks out Hollywood tourists as the Terminator 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

His stand-up is fast-paced, smart and interactive, and his illusions reveal the same caliber of creativity and cleverness. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

This logic rests on the illusion that racism is mythically rare, that “racist” is a dangerous slur rather than a common condition. Trump, the Squad, and the “Standard Definition” of Racism 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

You write: “Comment culture in general provides the illusion that one has an actual voice.” “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The title of Gary Ferrar’s show is both a provocation and a reassurance: If everything you see didn’t depend on some form of illusion, you’d wonder just what superpowers this man possesses. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Yes, there has been abundant glitter, plenty of sparkle, volumes of beading, enough chiffon and “nude”-colored illusion effects to tent a parking lot. Embracing Fashion, Saggers to Sequins, at the Winter Games 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

There were some wonderful moments, such as the sequence when parallel rays of light, filling the vast hall, created the illusion that they were transporting the dancers, a visual conveyor belt. Perspective | Reexamining opera, one classic at a time 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

But Golding is clear about two things; it is an illusion of power – Golding refers to Henry having "the illusion of mastery" – and it is also the absorption itself that is beyond mere happiness. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

The last 100 years of my immortal life have been a lie; the illusion of control. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 9: Wedding Day 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Fast travel, instant communications and express deliveries between opposite ends of the world mean, more than ever, that time is not only relative but also an illusion. The illusions of advertising 2013-05-16T21:35:00Z

“No battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” John Malkovich: ‘I am a constant source of embarrassment to myself’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

Nowadays, the illusion of happiness is most often discussed in terms of consumption. Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace' 2011-01-23T00:05:40Z

“I give the illusion of being a great piano player, but I’m actually a magician. If it’s my own playing, I do good.” Leon Russell, musician and hit songwriter, dies at 74 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

But perhaps that’s appropriate for a show about fatal illusions of glamour in a dark and decaying world. Review: Divine Decadence Revisited in ‘Grand Hotel’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

He riffs on shifting semantic variations, on the relation between art and artifice, illusion and elision, energy and entropy. Songs and Sonnets by Paul Muldoon – review 2013-01-11T20:00:01Z

The Oscars are the ceremony that celebrates and sustains the nostalgia and the illusion, and most of the ostensible “prestige” releases of awards season are its totems. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Yet the savagery of time tears away at our illusion; the savagery of time wears away our flesh, our creation. How to protect my children? 2013-03-12T00:00:00Z

Together, they cheekily pop a still life painting into three dimensions, but they also dissect, with crude glee, the layering that undergirds the illusion. Katy Cowan: Art about art, with a playful side 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

The transformation, while purely technical, creates the illusion of seeing through to some underlying layer of natural beauty and order. Art in Review: LESLIE THORNTON: ?Binocular? 2011-01-27T22:53:01Z

"These critics with the illusions they've created about artists — it's like idol worship," Lennon said in a recently released Rolling Stone interview, conducted just three days before his death. The Death of John Lennon: 30 Years Later, the Vigil Continues 2010-12-10T04:05:00Z

And for the wild ones who made themselves legends by cheating death as if it were a matter of routine, we mourn the illusion of their invincibility. This is how we will say goodbye to the rock-and-roll generation 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Baroque style was about illusion and extravagance, and opera — then a new medium, multidimensional and multisensory — was perhaps its ideal art form. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z

Taking place largely in a grim and hulking Dublin tenement, it offers no illusions of heroism, and plenty of human folly. Review: ‘The Plough and the Stars,’ War and Folly in a Dublin Tenement 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Some of the illusions she sang about in a program that began with a medley of “Pure Imagination” and “Never Never Land” and ended with “Rainbow Connection” had to do with leaving childhood fantasies behind. Music Review: Marissa Mulder Sings of Illusions at the Metropolitan Room 2012-03-08T22:39:04Z

All writers at some time think they’re a fraud, that the talent they thought they possessed is just an illusion — probably because, for the majority, it is. Review: Book 5 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

At Coachella, an image of Tupac danced and sang on stage alongside live performers, thrilling the audience and prompting speculation about other possible uses for the illusion’s technology. ArtsBeat: A Comeback Tour for a Ghostly Elvis 2012-06-06T18:55:08Z

The script puts it succinctly: the choice is an illusion. No one can say if "The Matrix Resurrections" is good or bad. Either way, it makes you think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

There was a thematic connection, if you care about that kind of thing — both plots hinged on trust and deception, illusion and reality. 'The Good Wife' Recap: In a Campaign Commercial, Alicia Shows Off Her Acting Chops 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

We also adore Harry's mother Diana more than Charles and the rest of the brood, especially after she shattered the fairy tale illusion surrounding Buckingham Palace. Meeting "Harry & Meghan": the Sussexes launch the next stage of their strategic charm offensive 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

Because it would taint the illusion of the college dream. Roy Choi shines a light on our broken food systems: "We'll throw away food before we feed people" 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Using digital effects and clever editing, the filmmakers created the illusion of smooth tracking shots between the backstage set and the actual theater.  In 'Birdman,' Broadway's St. James Theatre plays itself 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

When the 3D technology is not invading the hall, it creates stage depth and the illusion that the performers are floating amid the action. Kraftwerk at Vivid Live 2013 – review 2013-05-26T20:31:06Z

The mechanisms and beliefs that protected men like Lauer for years were so obscure or coded that the illusion of getting a glimpse of them in action, even a quasi-fictional one, is seductive. The Morning Show: why the messy #MeToo drama is both hit and miss 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Can we believe in illusions we know to be false? Critic?s Notebook: Performa 11?s ?Me, Michelle? and ?Antigone Jr.? - Review 2011-11-16T23:59:21Z

The writer goes on to explain that even this is an illusion. Forget "The Stand" – "Alice in Borderland" is the wild dystopian ride we've been waiting for 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

When “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” escaped from the grand piano, the illusion of decades past became complete. Indian Wells tennis tournament draws fans — and top players — to Palm Springs 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Making illusions without any of the patter, the showmanship, the razzle-dazzle? In ‘A Simulacrum,’ Steve Cuiffo Has Nothing Up His Sleeves 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

Neither had any illusion about the films’ quality. Herb Jeffries, jazz balladeer and star of all-black cowboy movies, dies

But she struggled to muster up interest in the film during the Obama years, partly due to the administration’s reputation for progressiveness in that area – an impression Hittman describes as an “illusion”. ‘Women's stories are seen as niche’: Eliza Hittman on her new film 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

“We put all our quote-unquote ‘genius’ into each song, but I had no illusions about longevity back then, and I still don’t.” The Fugs still riotous after all these years 2012-11-28T05:52:00Z

In meeting her previously unknown idol she realizes everything she presumes about the person is an illusion; I won't spoil the surprise of that twist. "I May Destroy You" ends with a revolutionary "ego death" because the other options would be a lie 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

It can infuse even the driest of pictures with the illusion of greatness, and price tags this bloated, too, can imbue workaday art with new weight. That $450 Million Leonardo? It’s No Mona Lisa. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

One bit of illusion is a structure typically associated with multiple seams, darts or underpinnings. On the Runway: A Look at Ala?a's Fall Collection 2011-03-17T17:01:40Z

The largest of them — stretching 50 feet — has noticeable red smears of ink and the illusion of folds where the stripes were printed off-register, giving the canvas a rich, three-dimensional quality. Wade Guyton’s Computer-Made Works at the Whitney 2012-09-27T12:00:35Z

The right and left borders show figures inside shallow niches, which begin to open an illusion of space. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

Simply put, that old ideal was revealed as an illusion. Review: ‘Made in the Americas’ Explores Globalism From Way, Way Back 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Yet what a feast for the ears and eyes those illusions are! Flying Lotus hypnotic and personable at Neptune | Concert review 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

To sit with it is to welcome the end of any still-held illusions about the man, however gently. Letting go of Michael Jackson: "Leaving Neverland" wakes us from a false dream 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

“What creates the link with Jérôme is how he reveals reality, how he’s not interested in theatrical illusion,” Ms. Chopra said. An Experimental Choreographer Who Isn’t Afraid of Failure 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

During the early lockdown months, shared images of "Quarantinis" on social media or Zoom gave the illusion of sharing a drink across enforced individual silos. Two years later, I’m still measuring life in Martini glasses 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

A director’s -- and a singer’s -- responsibility is to create a stage illusion, one way or another. Glyndebourne's 'Rosenkavalier,' hit by catty reviews, set for webcast 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

For all that, though, Eileen is tough, a survivor, and as her illusions fall away, she emerges hardened and renewed. Small things add up in Matthew Thomas' 'We Are Not Ourselves' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

"In fact it is just an illusion, created by his spin doctors on government television channels." Pussy Riot: 'we still burn with desire to take Putin's monopoly on power' 2012-08-27T14:43:50Z

But there wasn’t enough to create an illusion, or help Metlova compensate for her weak singing by finding her dramatic footing. Wolf Trap Opera, Castleton Festival launch unevenly but laudably on same weekend

The simple, but elegant garment created by Hollywood costume designer Helen Rose for the then 18-year-old Taylor is an oyster shell-colored, floor-length satin gown with a fine silk gauze off-the-shoulder illusion neckline. Elizabeth Taylor's first wedding dress up for auction 2013-05-24T16:12:32Z

There’s thrilling, fun mystery in how Broadway creates such wonderful illusions and imagery in the limited space of a stage. Television: ?Smash? on NBC, About Broadway, With Katharine McPhee 2012-01-19T17:14:32Z

We are in a world of artifice and illusion, confected from old-fashioned production-design virtuosity and newfangled digital hocus-pocus. Movie Review: ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Interpreted by Baz Luhrmann 2013-05-09T12:00:01Z

He was under no illusions about the scrutiny the couple would face. Justin Theroux Is on the Prowl 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

Now, it looks like there’s a new optical illusion that’s stirring up conversation online. Is This a Photo of Shiny Legs or Legs With White Paint? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

And Melisandre, as revealed in her POV chapters from “A Dance With Dragons,” genuinely and sincerely shares that belief; of all her many illusions and deceptions, this isn’t one of them. “Game of Thrones” politics: “What great thing has ever been accomplished without killing or cruelty?” 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

We tend to assume therefore that the Soviet moment must have been pure illusion. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z

But 40 years later, "Nashville" remains — a tribute to Tewkesbury, Altman and a brilliant cast, and to the confluence of Watergate, the American bicentennial, and our unshakable penchant for plowing ahead, protected by our illusions. Why Robert Altman's brilliant 'Nashville' never had a sequel 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

BBF want their albums to be a "perfect illusion – too good to be true". Brandt Brauer Frick say you can get (slightly) jiggy with it 2011-08-04T21:30:03Z

In a two-volume edition of Aristotle’s collected works commissioned by a Frankfurt nobleman, text is surrounded by hand-painted borders that give the illusion of gold and jewels. Art Review: ‘Renaissance Venice’ at the Morgan Library & Museum 2012-05-31T21:44:28Z

Just look at the illusion of solidity he creates at one end of the spear with just two brushstrokes. How easy is it to copy a famous painting? 2013-07-22T07:00:09Z

All that business about the importance of the grand royal illusion, whether or not there’s substance beneath it, was an abiding preoccupation in the canon. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

At the end of each illusion, the programme's producers ask stupefied onlookers to recount what they've just seen. Dynamo: Magician Impossible – now that's magic 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z

In a third-person account, Strauss traces some of the well-known highlights of Houdini’s life and illusions. ‘The Confabulist,’ a novel by Steven Galloway

“Optical illusions, David Bowie,” Mr. Maier said backstage, bringing the singer into this mix, without giving away what led him to create such a confident and convincing show. Fashion Review: Bottega Veneta: Tomas Maier Turns Soft Into Sharp 2014-02-23T18:32:32Z

The illusion was as spellbinding as the music itself. Jazz legend Carla Bley delivers a night of beauty and magic at the Atlas 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

Clad in a rollneck and forever gently clasping a glass of red wine, Lucont represents all the jokes and illusions we have about the French taken to an exaggerated and absurd level. This week's new comedy 2011-07-08T23:09:24Z

Floral-patterned lace has been cut up, flower by flower, then stitched together again, but only partially, to give a dress the illusion of having being torn. Art Review: The Shock of Fashion, When It Turns Into Something Else 2011-05-04T23:32:08Z

Vibhakta is another duet for singer and dancer, in which the two performers engage in a love song that is also a celebration of the unity of mind and body, reality and illusion. This week's new dance: Edinburgh special 2011-08-19T23:10:11Z

However, he told me he is simply committed to color, optics and illusion. At 99, the Painter Richard Mayhew Is Still Upending Expectations 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

But in practice, the illusion only worked for one privileged spectator — typically an emperor or prince seated centrally in the auditorium. How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

As the world burns, streaming entertainment has supplied us with distraction and proffered the illusion of sublime control. Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

We’ll never know, but in the work of contemporary artists informed by the aspirations and illusions of that period, we can perhaps find insight for the present. Seeking Art That Expands the Possibilities for a Troubled World 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

The very illusions that brought us victory are what powered our subsequent hubris, and nemesis rose from the inevitable disillusion of a world that trusted us in our folly. How Victory in the Cold War Led to Tragedy in the Years After 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

It created the illusion of a sea of low waves, a powerful reminder of the migration phenomenon. Christian Boltanski Project Touches Bologna’s Traumas, and His Own 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

The artist unpicks pop culture's illusions, uncovering a lack of selfhood that would make a martial arts master proud but has far more difficult connotations out in the world. Artist of the week 107: David Blandy 2010-09-29T15:01:00Z

“A lot of it is illusions you would have seen in the vaudeville days — very simple, practical effects,” Timbers says of the show. The creators of the ‘Beetlejuice’ musical ‘tried to run toward Burton’ visually 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

She is the Divine Mother who both nourishes and destroys life, who embodies the dualistic traditions of Hindu thought, who presides over maya — the illusion called life. ‘The Cauliflower’: The life of the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

Henry gives the illusion of being a monster, but he says and does nothing that other children don't do. How we made: Horrid Henry 2013-06-17T18:00:00Z

If we can liken life, for a moment, to a furnace, then freedom is the fire which burns away illusion. Christopher Dorner was not a monster 2013-02-14T23:26:00Z

Maybe we’ll get into the theater, he speculated, and find out that it was all a “Wizard of Oz” illusion or an expensive and elaborate prank. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”: You know all the spoilers in J.J. Abrams’ obsessive reboot — because you’ve seen this movie before 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

He soon learns that utopia is an illusion, that racism prevails no matter the location. The Evolution of Black Music, and a Man’s Soul, in One Show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Suddenly, flat panels conveyed the startlingly powerful and monumental illusion of three-dimensional, vaulted chambers. How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

When, on a trip to Italy, she catches Sandro fooling around with another woman, the illusion that such a life constitutes “doing something” shatters and she runs away. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z

If one result is to undercut treasured illusions about a paradise past, another is to keep past glories alive in the present, like the unearthly sound of Balinese chimes shimmering through an ordinary urban afternoon. Art Review: A Storied Paradise, Tempered by Reality 2011-05-30T21:33:34Z

When did perfection, or the illusion of such, become mandatory? The problem with sanctimonious environmentalists: their boring absolutism 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

"The lip-synching allows the actor to look directly down the lens at the audience: to acknowledge the illusion and break the fourth wall." Can 'fake' documentaries still tell the truth? 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z

Another thing he learned while researching the episode is the illusion of the so-called Golden Age of flying. What Adam Conover Can’t Travel Without 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

“With the different size of the cards and angles they are popping out from — the idea was to create an illusion,” Mr. Arora said. Special Report: Designing for 'Alice in the Real World' 2010-03-04T13:01:00Z

“This isn’t the Mike show. There isn’t the illusion of that.” Mike Isabella, Washington’s Restless Restaurateur 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

The beach, very much not an illusion, is a foreign image to the industrial norms of northwest Indiana. A Day at the Beach in, Yes, Gary, Indiana 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

"The production will include illusions, skateboarding and many other surprises that will capture the spirit of the film but freshly interpret it for a new audience," Lloyd said in the press release. 'Back to the Future' time travels to London stage 2014-01-31T13:19:44Z

I have begun to wonder if perhaps the problem isn’t change itself but our susceptibility to what has been called the “end of history” illusion. To Stay Married, Embrace Change 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

For Parsons, the idea of creating illusions exists, rather understandably, at the heart of his work as both musician and producer. Alan Parsons, prog rock Prospero? 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Later blows include the deaths of his wife and his daughter, although this being a romance, those disasters ultimately prove to be illusions. ‘Pericles,’ Lashed by Sorrows, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Our culture's inability to contend with mortality places artists like Paul Reubens in a domain that was uniquely his, where he maintained the illusion that benevolent childishness defies aging. Through Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens reminded Gen X to stay true to our immature inner children 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Buoyant auction prices followed by brisk sales at Art Basel Miami maintained the illusion that the art world was somehow immune to the recession. When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends 2010-12-17T14:43:28Z

It was the touch of illusion lace, the lingerie bra top or hemline of pleated chiffon that took the edge off banded short skirts, zip-back sheaths and shirtdresses. Victoria Beckham show full of her style signatures 2012-09-09T19:46:04Z

Stage names work as synonyms, but that illusion often breaks down live in concert; Trent Reznor is Nine Inch Nails, until he’s backed by half a dozen people sharing a stage with him. Review | St. Vincent goes it alone and it’s more than enough 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

In those beautiful, nuanced moments when the dancers float into their kicks — the illusion of what a raised arm creates — the Rockettes are breaking free from their past. Times Critics’ Last-Chance Dance Picks 2013-12-26T21:33:00Z

He shows how Leon and Troy enjoy the illusion of autonomy but are ultimately at the mercy of promoters, for whom they are just meal tickets. Sucker Punch 2010-06-20T21:46:00Z

Each show devotes uncommon attention and expense to its period details — costumes, décor, automobiles and even large sets and soundstages — recreating Weimar Berlin and postwar Naples, the better to envelop us in the illusion. Escaping Into ‘Babylon Berlin’ and ‘My Brilliant Friend’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

After all, those who cling to an illusion are the most likely to be disappointed by the reality. Brad and Angelina proved there's no such thing as the perfect marriage: so why do we pretend? 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

And Dishonored, the new game from Arkane Studios, is a very fine illusion. Video Game Review: Dishonored, a Video Game From Arkane Studios 2012-10-15T21:45:58Z

That effect is of course an illusion here; the authors have been refining their show for years. Review: Going From Schlub to Slick in ‘The Other Josh Cohen’ 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Finally, a Chance to Dress Up Again WE all age, and that includes drag queens, even with their limitless tools of illusion. Scene City: Finally, a Chance to Dress Up Again 2010-10-07T16:39:00Z

If it doesn't, all we get is the illusion of protection. Review: Suyama Space installation shows the handmade doing battle with the high-tech 2011-02-24T20:44:06Z

Within his structure, which shifts dancers across or on and off the stage in packs, Mr. Morris creates optical illusions, fooling the eyes into imagining that there are double, even triple the number of performers. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM Opera House 2012-03-03T00:04:35Z

The pianist's mission is to create the illusion of one note connecting to the next, artistic magic convincing us that we can hear what physics says we can't. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

I don’t have any illusions about being a star or a big shot. After Thousands of Broadway Performances, 5 Shows Take Their Bows 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

That the old-fashioned theatrical illusions the ride employs, like the use of forced perspective for London’s skyline, could still elicit wonder even in an age of digital effects, impressed him. What Do ‘Candyman’ and ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ Have in Common? A Director Explains. 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

The illusion worked well enough, but such makeovers would be considered underwhelming today. Drag Kings Are Ready to Rule 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

I asked Cooper if he intended a resemblance to Duchamp’s optical illusions, and if he, like Duchamp, was attempting to move from the “retinal” to the “conceptual.” How Dennis Cooper Creates Fiction from GIFs 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

In keeping with that princess-y tradition were a raft of sweetheart necklines, strapless tops, illusion panels and confectioners' layers of embroidered lace. On the Runway Blog: Trendspotting: Taffeta and Tulle at the Golden Globes 2013-01-15T00:29:07Z

Mellencamp finds “liberating” the recognition that legacy is an illusion and that importance is elusive. “I’m a blue guy in a red state”: John Mellencamp and the search for an American soul 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

In the last room, the artist plays with perception, mirroring the walls and creating the illusion of a lower ceiling by installing a grid of string overhead. Inside Art: At Venice Biennale, Sarah Sze’s ‘Triple Point’ 2013-05-30T19:51:10Z

We meet her just after she drops her laptop on the floor, shattering both the screen and the illusion of well-being. Review: In ‘Hot Milk,’ by Deborah Levy, a Broken Life and a Frayed Maternal Bond 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

At every turn there is another spectacle, another illusion, another coup d'éclat and, of course, there is light at the end of every tunnel. Light Show – review 2013-02-03T00:05:16Z

Later on, a mobster spots Nick escorting Maureen out of a back entrance of the club, and they have to kiss to sell the illusion that they're a couple. Empowerment, with a tail and ears 2011-09-19T18:20:00Z

He thought acting was just completely unrealistic and you’re in the illusion that you are this grand person and why? Marlon on Marlon… the Brando tapes 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

“So the biggest part of breathing life back into the illusions is the rehearsal of the performers.” Bringing Broadway Spectacle Back to Life 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

In “Oklahoma” the movie illusion swells into evil sickness. Books of The Times: David Means Colors His Stories Dark in ?The Spot? 2010-06-29T22:00:00Z

Mr. Donohoe presides over it as a host who is skilled in the art of disarming; he generates the illusion that he is somehow our acquaintance of long standing. Jonny Donahoe in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ at Barrow Street 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

Mehretu has never stood still as an artist, but the prints she began making in 2008 have been consistently stronger than her paintings in every way: touch, spatial illusion, color and especially scale. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Yet in different ways, each of the Miliband brothers still sees government as capable of controlling market forces – the illusion their father presciently exposed. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z

All the key stars of “filmfarsi” – a form of popular cinema that embodied the aspirations and illusions of a modernising society – were summoned to the revolutionary court. How Iran's 'filmfarsi' remains the biggest secret in cinema history 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Coaston is under no illusion that argument necessarily leads to persuasion even when it’s done well, and she doesn’t fetishize agreement or national unity. D.C.’s rising libertarian star, with her ‘healthy skepticism of state power,’ secures an influential podcast 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

"I've no illusions about how hard-nosed some councils are, but they don't like adverse publicity and libraries are very popular with communities," Gibbons added. Day of protest planned against library closures 2010-12-21T09:51:48Z

There must be a statistical explanation for it — it's an illusion generated by hindsight — but who knows, maybe celebrities naturally occur in clumps. Friends in Lowe Places: Rob Lowe and the Art of the Celebrity Memoir 2011-04-21T10:15:00Z

The opening theme returns by way of a transition of shocking economy: the note E, played repeatedly but given the illusion of variety by jumping octaves. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

“You know, we’re not impressed by the accouterments of the illusion,” said Tone Rapp Fleming, a New York native and skater for 50 years, who came for a preview on Thursday. How New York Got a Glorious Throwback Roller-Skating Extravaganza 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Even if headphones offer only an “illusion of freedom,” or of control, it’s an illusion that clearly appeals to many. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Above all there is his fascination with the decisive impact of geography on the calculations, ambitions and illusions of statesmen and societies. Foreign Policy From the Dark Side 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Their illusions wouldn't be shattered despite what an authority was telling them. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

Interpretations slide around; time becomes an illusion; art changes shape as it's passed from the artist to its audience. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z

It’s an immensely clever illusion, dismantling one story while suggesting another, tossing off details that don’t seem relevant — yet. ‘Innocents and Others’: Female friendship through the lens of film 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

“They’re having to try to pretend that nothing’s different, which is obviously an illusion,” said Clive Gillinson, the executive and artistic director of Carnegie Hall, a three-time juror at the contest. Russia’s Storied Tchaikovsky Competition Is Diminished by War 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

There are pictures of some in their underwear or nude in which they do not look so feminine, but Strömholm was not out to puncture any illusions they may have had about themselves. Art Review: Christer Strömholm at International Center of Photography 2012-06-21T21:06:23Z

Or perhaps she has never belonged to earth at all: "she married an illusion" instead. Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z

Illusion is illusion, after all, and financial markets, like the theater, require a certain suspension of disbelief — though when the fantasy bursts in theater, the fallout is less ruinous. Review: In ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ a Vivid Tale of Profit and Pain 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The viewer stares into this illusion, entirely aware of the mechanics, but overpowered by its vision of an endless fall and the impossible ascent to heaven. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z

He sought the same “partial” illusion for the theatre, he said, “in order that it may always be recognized as an illusion.” How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

It announces, in effect, that there is nothing earth-shattering to be found here and that the participants themselves harbor no illusions about their efforts. Art Review: The Art and Heart of the Dealer 2011-08-04T22:07:12Z

These days, having brought this ungovernable storm of rush upon ourselves, we may be grateful for anything – not least a beautiful windable timepiece – that reinstates at least an illusion of control. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Visitors will see projections and illusions showing the vibrant colors of the palace interiors before Victoria’s eldest son Edward VII redecorated it predominantly in white and gold. Hi-tech illusions bring Queen Victoria's palace to life in UK... 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

Consumer psychology robs moments like these of the illusion of objectivity. Médoc, From Grand Cru to Country Cooking 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

“Daniel is the master of illusion and science,” Mr. Williams said in an email. Why Celebrities Are So Into the Artist Daniel Arsham 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

It condenses the seven books of the ancient Sanskrit epic into two-and-a-half hours of swordplay, romance, puppetry and stage illusion. Weekend preview: Seattle trivia edition 2012-10-19T18:36:54Z

This album features many literary illusions and influences. Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

Architecture and set design couldn't be more different in the sense that one is about creating shelter and the other illusion. Oscars 2016: How architect László Rajk's designs gave 'Son of Saul' its suffocating authenticity 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Oursler is making a larger point about the confusion between illusion and reality to which human beings seem to be congenitally susceptible. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

“I give you truth,” says our narrator, Tom, portrayed here by the astute Tom Story, “in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” A “Menagerie” of real feeling 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Yep, the shorter layers of hair that usually frame her face and obscure her forehead were slicked away to the side for a hairstyle that created the illusion of all-one-length locks. Renee Zellweger looks different on red carpet, world freaks out 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

“It’s an illusion. We don’t actually need to find that.” The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

The ‘uncured’ bacon illusion: It’s actually cured, and it’s not better for you. Perspective | How processed food makes us fat 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

It feels as if I have had a strabismus induced, causing illusions that slowly resolve into insights. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison 2013-05-10T07:00:01Z

Best of all, there is an illusion of air around each body, restoring the dancers to their proper element: space. 3D dance takes a great leap forward 2010-09-28T21:15:00Z

Paul based his unusual Duck-Rabbit logo on an optical illusion he found in a book. Our Favorite Southern Breweries 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z

She says she didn’t love her mother, even if she sometimes tried to imagine she did, clinging to an illusion in order to cope. ‘Mothercare’ Takes a Hard Look at What Happens When Duty Outlives Love 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

This creates the illusion of a fuller top lip. Strange beauty trend using glue to create fuller lips goes viral on social media 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Ehrenreich is irreplaceable to the culture, with her rigor and skepticism, her allergy to comforting illusions. Barbara Ehrenreich Urges Us to Accept, Accept the Dying of the Light 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

I’ve been to L.A. many times, but I don’t have naïve illusions about what it is like to be a film actor. He’s a Doctor. He’s an Actor. He’s an Indie Heartthrob. 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Rather than copying existing works, he made new paintings in the style of particular artists, creating the illusion of important and logical historical finds. Review: ‘Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery’ Tells How a Swindler Fooled the World 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Through these passages, we may not necessarily feel we know these women much better than before, but at least "The Super Models" dissolves some of the illusion separating them from the rest of us. When it comes to providing insight, Apple's "The Super Models" only goes skin deep 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z

They play with illusion and reality, rather like Frantic Assembly in their early days – who in fact they somewhat resemble. New Edinburgh act of the day: RashDash 2011-08-15T16:21:22Z

Living in limbo is hard but it is also our true and unalterable condition; having things “settled” is only an illusion. Psychic change or con job? 2012-11-13T01:00:00Z

This identification of body with self is a total illusion. Antony Gormley blinds viewers with brilliance in new London show 2010-06-03T16:55:00Z

Hemingway talks about the “illusion of immortality” in war and “looking death in the eye,” and he also describes being “broken by the world.” Hemingway on film: 6 films that take him from a WWI hotshot almost to the bitter end 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

This coming-of-age love triangle between a boy, a girl and an older woman is the essence of summer: tender, sensuous, poignant and without illusions. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

She could perpetuate the illusion that her cancer can be beaten and seek treatment, but she chooses the opposite course. 'Mad Men' recap: The Big C 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

These are numbers that throb, delicately but persistently, with the longing and regret inspired by life’s illusions and evasions. Michael Friedman, a Man of Many Voices and a Gift for Prophecy 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

The situations and wordplay are knotty; often, they crash youthful illusions into adult disillusion. Elvis Costello & the Imposters Are Still Blasting Away 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

In some scenes, cars resemble Matchbox toys, and women appear to have the bodies of 12-year-old girls — not the most tragic illusion, you might think, but disturbing nonetheless. ‘Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For,’ More Neo-Noir 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

As much as we want our athletes to look polished, we also want to cling to the illusion that their focus is on the functionality of their body, not its use as a potential brand. Absent in Sports: Designer Fashion 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

He also painted stripes in interlocking grid patterns, resembling plaid, and later turned to irregularly shaped canvases that presented the illusion of three-­dimensional objects. Paul Reed, Washington Color School painter, dies at 96 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

The money was, like so many things in Las Vegas, an illusion, an unnecessary attachment merely getting in the way. Lost in Las Vegas 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z

The three dancers to whom he cedes the middle of the show are no illusion. Dance Review: Jason Samuels Smith at Joyce Theater 2012-07-04T21:26:01Z

She plays interestingly with substance and illusion, with dread and solace on the installment plan. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

“It’s just an illusion of control, really, but that illusion is everything. It makes me feel safe. It gives me stillness in my mind. All I’ve ever wanted is peace.” The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

More doable excursions were everywhere: a short hike up Upper Table Rock Trail; a play at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, 30 minutes away; a visit to the optical illusions of The Oregon Vortex. Place 13 of 52: On the Water, and Off, the Rogue River in Oregon Charms 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

For the rest, one is left to gawp at the ingenuity of Paul Kieve's illusions. Ghost the Musical ? review 2011-07-19T22:00:01Z

It's an illusion to think that even when you have health insurance that you're not going to become financially distraught by having something happen to you. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z

Which is why “we have no illusion of going off the air,” said Marc Burstein, a senior executive producer at ABC. How is TV news going to cover the weirdest, most fraught election in history? All of your questions answered. 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Of course, the idea of audiences choosing is an illusion in any case. Do theatre audiences really decide what shows they see? 2011-03-29T14:39:02Z

Don Draper reflects the American compulsion to sidestep the hard work of living a flawed but authentic life for the empty illusion of perfection, as shiny and skin-deep as an advertisement that promises the impossible. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z

He has few illusions about what his career has taught him: that scene-stealing first acts don’t go on for ever. Joseph Fiennes: the sequel 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Trompe l’oeil baby clothes are a popular genre — but others have played with illusion in a way that don’t seem quite so blatantly suggestive. Don’t dress your baby like a jerk 2012-07-06T15:40:00Z

Hands reach in from the sides to create the illusions, which are surprisingly lyrical. Exhibits at Hirshhorn, Kreeger museums offer a break from the bustle

How can he say that ours is a static culture in the age of connectivity, which has accelerated change and turned ours into ever more “liquid societies”? An illusion. Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

“They’re very motivated, and very full of illusions,” she said as she walked through the gallery. Berlin’s Museum Tours in Arabic Forge a Bridge to Refugees 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

The lilting cut-out planes and perspectival geometries of his paintings and sculptures generate delicate spatial illusions but insist on their status as things in real space open to our perception. An Appraisal: Scott Rothkopf, Chief Curator at the Whitney, Recalls Ellsworth Kelly 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Yet this production never lets us escape unconditionally into illusions; it keeps undermining them, and forces us into fresh considerations of how we consume theater and what expectations we bring to it. Theater Review: ‘Ganesh Versus the Third Reich,’ at Under the Radar 2013-01-10T22:16:35Z

On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah joked about the almost immediate shift in tone from the illusion of stability to a series of unhinged tweets. Late-night TV roundup: 'Nobody's better at pleasuring Trump than himself' 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

We all suffer, to a greater or lesser extent, from an illusion of understanding, an illusion that we understand how things work when, in fact, our understanding is meagre. Human expertise: it’s not what you know, it’s who… 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

It doesn't confer freedom, but it was a nice illusion. Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent' 2013-01-10T19:00:00Z

A 10-minute ride from seaside downtown, the mosque is near Likas Bay; its reflection in the water gives the illusion that it is floating on the man-made lagoon that surrounds it. Living Like a Local in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Casting a movie star to play her mother fostered that illusion. Jona Frank: Between Reality and Fantasy 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

With sleigh bells and rippling, echoing guitars, Silversun Pickups find a chiming optimism in the song, embracing a joyful illusion even as they realize it’s temporary. 12 New Christmas Songs for a Vast Array of Holiday Moods 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

And he couldn’t imagine a world where illusions masked the truth. This Life: For this witch, Wicca is about personal responsibility and growth 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

Buczek has no illusions about the potential popularity of such treasures, but she knows why cards retain a special place in our hearts. Stationery stores are in trouble, but our love for Valentine’s Day cards burns hotter than ever 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Time spent in New York, however, and in the American South to start on a new project about African-American families, soon wore that illusion away. What Ernest Cole’s Hidden Camera Revealed 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Plush mismatched chairs and a piano help foster the illusion. Review | El Secreto de Rosita seasons its pan-Latin menu with charms galore 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

That had an impact, thinking about motion and rhythm and the mechanics of creating those illusions. Hey, what's that sound: Thomas Truax's homemade instruments 2010-03-22T17:05:00Z

As a young wannabe screenwriter, I didn't have any illusions that I could write the next Citizen Kane. My inspiration for The Liability: Cohen and Tate and its brilliant screenwriter 2013-05-14T10:23:00Z

“He just finesses it, so that you know how to enable the illusion, and the audience knows where to look.” Harry Potter Doesn’t Dance. But He Sure Can Move. 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

One meaning is a deliberate play, as in drag, on the traditions of art as illusion and performance as impersonation. Dance Review: American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center 2013-01-14T23:01:01Z

Where “Magic Mike” reflected ruefully on the eternally-out-of-reach illusion of intimacy that movies provide, “Magic Mike XXL” channels the evangelical frenzy of revival meetings. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jarzyna willfully robs us both of any sense of distance from the play’s speaker and of the illusion of empathy that those earlier interpretations afforded. ‘4:48 Psychosis,’ a Polish Adaptation of Sarah Kane’s Play 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

These things can be refreshing in a world where the “real” us is often stymied by the illusions we’ve created though social media, or by trying to live up to the expectations of others. When I went off my antidepressants 2014-04-19T23:00:00Z

Leonard Foglia's original and now widely traveled production uses projections that create graphic illusions of whalers on the waves. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The presentations at MoMA, which will use a single digital projector, will have “smilebox” letterboxing, approximating the illusion of depth that original moviegoers got from the extreme curvature of the screen. Long Before Imax, the Curious Tale of Cinerama 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

And he advocated "doing away with magical thinking and illusions." Freud and C.S. Lewis debate faith and atheism in Taproot play 2012-03-22T20:11:08Z

Airlines continue to poke, prod, redesign and shrink their seats to maximize revenue while giving at least an illusion of comfort. Care about every inch of airline legroom? Do your homework. 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Mining an illusion of charm from such terrain is hard, if not impossible, work for any contemporary performer. Review: ‘It Shoulda Been You,’ a Wedding on Broadway 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

A colorful optical illusion has divided social media users once more as people debate which animal is actually displayed in the unfinished drawing. Viral optical illusion has some seeing donkey, seal or something else 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

Her silkscreened panel showing a sun over water is both an ephemeral image and a material thing, spectral illusion and blunt reality, hypothetical concept and inescapable fact. R.H. Quaytman makes paintings as sculptures, mysterious and seductive at their best 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, though Bacevich doubts whether America’s distinctive illusions actually won the Cold War, I wonder whether Mikhail Gorbachev would agree. How Victory in the Cold War Led to Tragedy in the Years After 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Trauma is the glimpse of truth that tells us a lie: the lie that love is impossible, that peace is an illusion. “There is no cure for trauma. Once it enters the body, it stays there forever” 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

He had no illusions about why he and his company — a premier institution and international brand — were so often brought to the White House. Perspective | The night I danced with Arthur Mitchell at the White House 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z