The Nuclear Illusion

The Great Illusion

The Turkish Chimera

The Velvet Delusion

The Disenchantment of Iraq

East Asia s Nationalist Fantasy Islands

This, too, is probably an illusion.

Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color

The Perilous Fantasy of Energy Independence

That is true whether an illusion is cognitive or political.

It's very ingenious, as all Freudian arguments are but didn't make much sense because I have seen the same delusion, a patient having the same delusion, about his pet poodle.

So they are taking refuge in fantasy.

The question is not fanciful.

Indeed, the two state solution was always an illusion.

(The Democrats, for their part, have had one foot in the camp of unreality as well.)

That is true whether an illusion is cognitive or political. Depending on how a particular event develops, it can lead us to formulate erroneous interpretations of what is actually happening.

But again it's the same story that if we take the background away, the illusion comes back. Right.

But the belief that nothing will change is equally illusory.

Many who protested against the regime in 2009 are disillusioned.

Translation Orderly resolution of global megabanks is an illusion.

PRAGUE All revolutions, in the end, turn from euphoria to disillusion.

Here the US and others must disabuse them.

Others expressed the same disillusion with a gloating air of schadenfreude .

Both now face major problems with disillusioned populations.

But to frame the issue in this way is, at best, to engage in delusion.

The magnitude of the illusion depends on the properties of the obscuring pattern and the nature of its borders.

Power may be increasingly illusory in a globalized world, but it is an illusion that is shared by others, and the longer one inhabits it, the more one s circle consists of others who share the belief.

The view of the self as an illusion is accepted by some philosophers, including Daniel Dennett.

Because in visual illusions we can easily demonstrate the mistakes in cognitive illusion it's much, much harder to demonstrate to people the mistakes.

Two years ago at TED, I think I've come to this conclusion I think I may have been suffering from a strange delusion.

In fact, the target is not scientifically backed, and the suggestion that we could achieve it is entirely implausible.

Richard Dawkins points to religion as a source of violence (notably in The God Delusion ), and considers creationism a threat to biology.

Doing away with this illusion requires the creation of a global emissions market still a very distant goal.

Upon the occurrence of the event, we must decide if the event was an illusion or whether it is real and has actually taken place.

It would be a delusion to imagine that the eurozone need only follow its current path to ensure the single currency s future.

It is unimportant that many European Muslims are just as disenchanted and secular as their non Muslim fellow citizens.

One senses in China the birth pangs of civil society, making the introduction of the rule of law increasingly urgent.

The security fostered by America s unchallenged global power has been shown to be an illusion.

So anyone who talks about the consumer coming back even after deleveraging is living in a fantasy world.

First with Shevarnadze, and now with Saakashvili, popular disillusionment reflects not rejection of democracy, but frustration with its continuing absence. Saakashvili is evidently mesmerized by the US, and the West in general, but what is the point if there is no independent and democratic political process in Georgia today?

So basically, with both of your hands you're controlling pitch and volume and kind of trying to create the illusion that you're doing separate notes, when really it's continuously going ...

Depending on how a particular event develops, it can lead us to formulate erroneous interpretations of what is actually happening.

And, collectively, that delusion boosts our savings, and thus our capital stock, which on turn boosts all of our wages and salaries as well.

Many Pakistanis, disillusioned with Pakistan s political class, remained mute, thinking that he might deliver.

How many hundreds of thousands of young people are disappointed, or lose confidence in the seriousness of religious subjects, when they are exposed to the truth, because they live an illusion!