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illusory

(= illusive) based on or having the nature of an illusion illusive hopes of finding a better job Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy

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Movie subtitles

They have no power. it's illusory.
The illusory power is so great, we can't be sure of anything we do, or anything we see.
The busty girl is the illusory escape into the irrational.
We do not more must have of these illusory superstitions when we can bring the proof of the divine miracles.
Not skulk in squares being shot ragged, hiding from illusory. illusory cavalry.
What do you say, Bob? It's all illusory.
Well, listening to you negotiate, the illogic of marriage Iove is illusory, it's all money.
There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me only an entity, something illusory.
Actually it's not a dream, I told her, but it takes part in the illusory nature of dreaming, because it is the future, therefore, of time.
My perspective is illusory.
Illusory!
It's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature.
While economic law abhors an assumption, the break-even paradox creates a whole new metric, an illusory flow that appears proactive but is, in fact, static.
The busty girl is the illusory refuge from rationality.
We didn't ask anyone for help. The reason for your long trip is illusory.
What do you say, Bob? It's all illusory. it's ill, and it's for losers.
The real Dr. McKay and his team reside in their own illusory worlds.
I think those things are just illusory.
You are experiencing something called illusory correlation.
The evidence necessary to try Evans for the abduction of the five young women proved illusory.
They have no power. It's illusory.
Each collapse of a figure of totalitarian power. reveals the illusory community. that unanimously approved it, and which was only an agglomeration of solitudes. without illusions.
In my age, living some illusory life. We go to the flicks, the last seances. We were at the operetta.
For a few illusory moments, I thought I could change.
It's all illusory.
So the paintings are illusory in that they are perfectly painted in terms of technique.
She uses an illusory, smooth style.
The real Dr. McKay and the rest of his team reside in their own illusory worlds.
And I use ideology in the traditional sense of illusory wrong way of thinking and perceiving reality.

News and current affairs

But, while the US suffered costs to its reputation around the world, the supposed advantages from this for America's opponents proved illusory.
Yet if we look closer this gap becomes illusory.
The other difficulty with that fashionable hypothesis is that most of the alleged costs are illusory or trumped up.
But stability based on authority alone is illusory and ultimately impossible to sustain.
The problem for Greece is that what little export growth it has experienced lately is largely illusory, as it has come mostly from petroleum products.
There may have been more savings opportunities for households and more diverse funding sources for firms, but the added value of asset-management activity was illusory.
But trying to obtain stability from rigidity is illusory.
But making it difficult for firms to lay off workers provides only an illusory benefit for workers, for it compromises companies' ability to compete, and weakens their incentive to create jobs.
With regime supporters' physical survival seemingly at stake, the expectation of a quick collapse was illusory.
The task now is not to seek an illusory endgame.
That hope soon proved illusory.
Most young male faculty members have an obsessive need to work 20 hours a day, seven days a week to make sure that a (sometimes-illusory) competitor is beaten to the punch.
While the military threat in the West looks as illusory as it is, in Central Asia that threat is concrete.
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.
But the belief that nothing will change is equally illusory.
But by that time, even the civilian chancellor had resolved on extravagant war aims that made hopes for a negotiated peace illusory.
In the space of just 30 years, Berlusconi's TV stations managed to impose this illusory portrait of success on Italian society.
Growth based on high leverage typically proves to be illusory.
As we confront the warnings of Chemobyl and Yalta, it is time to seek that which transcends the horizon of mere rational or scientific thought and the limits of the illusory pretensions of Chernobyl's social engineers and Yalta's geopolitical strategists.

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