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Luckily for me, my life on my own didn't turn out as disastrous as this (so far) but I have always kept a great respect for an artist who can perform such illusions and so totally immerse himself in the (fake) reality he is trying to convey.
After convincing Hugo that he (Max) is a) mental and b) desperately in need of a partner to make his dreams of being a stage magician come alive, the not-so-dynamic duo enlist the managerial expertise of an inventor of illusions (Milo) and the, ah, gentler attributes of a lovely waitress (Lydia).
There are no speeches or lectures, but watching illusions and faith in old systems being peeled away is very powerful.
Jack is a thug, have no illusions, and short of raping his daughter and putting the video online there's very little Mr. Bauer won't do.
Angry and thinking that everything he always imagined to be true were illusions, he run away and starts a new life as shepherd and even marrying Tzipporah.
Seeking help sorting out circumstances and illusions, Paul turns to a friend of the family Dr. Vincent(Regis Toomey).
But that is to no avail because life is stronger than illusions and death is even stronger than life.
How can she leave when she's more terrified of going out? Claustrophobic in its execution, it turns into a ghost story instead of delving into whether the things happening or just illusions are just in her mind, but therein is the motivation of the script.
"Smile tho' your heart is breaking"--that's the motto of the theatre, where on-stage appearances and illusions are essential to creating the audience's experienced reality.
I've always considered myself as a big fan of British comedy but then comes this movie to tear my illusions asunder.
In this perfect illustration of the post-modern wasteland, young people are shown to have no hopes, no illusions.
Putin’s Reality Check for EuropeBERLIN – For far too long, the West has harbored illusions about Vladimir Putin’s Russia – illusions that have now been shattered on the Crimean peninsula.
One premise underlies this entire line of thought: to imagine that there is a democratic alternative to Saddam, or that once he disappears there will be a democratic transition in Iraq, is to entertain dangerous illusions.
She has no illusions that history turns out the way reason tells you it should.
Despite European illusions to the contrary, this will be decided in China, not in the West.
I do not intend to discuss Poland’s internal politics, but I would like to show how a false understanding of Western practices, combined with a blind insistence on glib, populist solutions, creates unsustainable illusions and may destroy a chance to secure what de Tocqueville called "equality of opportunity."
Illusions of DemocracyNEW YORK – The Internet is an extraordinarily powerful tool.
Of course, one should not entertain too many illusions.
No one should be under any illusions.
To be sure, no one in East Asia harbors any illusions that Kim has changed.
Having fought the Houthis back in 2009, it had no illusions that this would be a cakewalk.
In France, too, citizens have no illusions.
He explained the Messianic illusions that were reborn with the Six-Day War as false compensation for the martyrdom of the Shoah.
But we should not harbor any illusions: Europe is far too weak and divided to stand in for the US strategically; and, without US leadership, the West cannot survive.
Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own.
And, as Robert Jervis argued in Perception and Misperception in International Politics, published during the Cold War, the illusions that we create have an enormous influence on decision-making – even becoming a fundamental cause of conflict.
Without hell, no illusions."
But craving for idols and illusions creates its own special hell -- the more so if society is passing through a crisis of identity and structure.
Israel has few illusions about Palestinians toppling their own leaders.
Hamas is ready to expose Gaza’s civilians to Israel’s devastating retaliations as long as this serves to mobilize the region against the Zionist aggressors and to mock PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s illusions of a diplomatic solution.
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