The comfort was short-lived, yet she found herself returning to the assurance whenever her imagination forced images on her too awful to contemplate without the prop of illusion.

While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.

they had also had to generalize it -- to the point, finally, where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as such: as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself.

It was then that Picasso and Braque were confronted with a unique dilemma: they had to choose between illusion and representation.

It was the collage that made the terms of this dilemma clear: the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become, for the first time, mutually exclusive alternatives.

Subsequent investigations proved that the appearance of flying rods on video was an optical illusion created by the slower recording speed of the camera.

* His ambivalence towards docetism, the heretical doctrine that Christ's earthly body was an illusion.

* In the 1970s, one suggestion was that the lenses of Clark Kent's glasses ( made of Kryptonian materials ) constantly amplified a low-level super-hypnosis power, thereby creating the illusion of others viewing Clark Kent as a weak and frailer being.

According to Bent Corydon, Hubbard created the illusion that Dianetics was the first psychotherapy to address traumatic experiences in their own time, but others had done so as standard procedure.

The College's founder Eleazar Wheelock designed a seal for his college bearing a striking resemblance to the seal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a missionary society founded in London in 1701, in order to maintain the illusion that his college was more for mission work than for higher education.

While his audience was awaiting developments in the Lindbergh kidnapping, Block played records and created the illusion that he was broadcasting from a ballroom, with the nation ’ s top dance bands performing live.

Although those programs included years of research and work, ELIZA remains a milestone simply because it was the first time a programmer had attempted such a human-machine interaction with the goal of creating the illusion ( however brief ) of human-human interaction.

To create a heightened illusion of grainy documentary realism, footage was shot under fluorescent lights in an actual office building set, and taped on hand-held Hi-8 video cameras usually operated by Gleisner and Cilauro.

The illusion was further maintained by artificially aging the film's appearance.

Some doubted the discovery at first, arguing that the appearance of the structure was merely an optical illusion created by the observation technique used by Golgi.

Docetism held that Jesus ' humanity was merely an illusion, thus denying the incarnation ( Deity becoming human ).

It would be a dangerous illusion to think that, if war once starts, it will come to an early end even if a success on any one of the several fronts on which it will be engaged should have been secured " Ribbentrop for his part told Hitler that Chamberlain's letter was just a bluff, and urged his master to call it.

" The literary critic D. F. Rauber claimed that the man was " necessary to create the illusion of the cut short rather than the stopped ".

Stanley Wolpert has argued, The " plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi ... who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.

Those who participated felt that maintenance of a constant and complete illusion for all who were not involved was necessary to keep audience interest.

Giving the illusion that I knew what I was talking about when, in fact, I really didn ’ t.

Zygmunt Bauman says Postmodernity is best described as Modernity without illusion.

Given that premise, the notion of absolute knowledge ( as described by Plato and the rationalists ) is seen as mere illusion, and this is what he set out to demonstrate in the first part of his magnum opus " The Critique of Pure Reason " ( 1781 ).

The models are described in succession as corresponding to increasing levels of reality from common illusion, to belief, to reasoning, and then to philosophical understanding.

Consideration of the possibility of backwards time travel in a hypothetical universe described by a Gödel metric led famed logician Kurt Gödel to assert that time might itself be a sort of illusion.

The Balducci levitation is a levitation illusion that was first described by Ed Balducci.

In 1861 Hering described an optical illusion which now bears his name – Hering illusion.

Kevin Thomas of the LA Times described it as " a gripping critique of the power of the movies to shape perception ", while exploring the illusions created by Hollywood, as well as the illusion of racial identity.

So the argument from illusion is better described as an argument from delusion if it is to make its central point.

It was first described under the name Kindergarten illusion, and re-discovered by Richard Gregory in 1973.

The Fraser spiral illusion is an optical illusion that was first described by the British psychologist James Fraser in 1908.

Television footage of the goal, described as a " reverse scorpion kick ", gives the illusion that the accidental goal is a deliberate and skilful manoeuvre.

The Cornsweet illusion, also known as the Craik – O ' Brien – Cornsweet illusion and the Craik – Cornsweet illusion, is an optical illusion that was described in detail by Tom Cornsweet in the late 1960s.

Stephen Holden of the New York Times described the film's look as " hazy, indistinct, sepia-tinted, overcrowded and flat ", and that " its monochromatic panoramas are too busy and flat to yield an illusion of depth or to convey a feeling of characters moving in space.

Emil Sinclair is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means " world of light " as well as " world of illusion ".

Smiley then visits his estranged wife, Ann, and makes a point of cutting all relations with her, deliberately shedding his illusions ( Karla previously described Ann as ' the last illusion of an illusionless man ') as he prepares to face down his greatest foe.

Lang described Huntington's research, in particular his use of mathematical equations to demonstrate that South Africa was a “ satisfied society ”, as " pseudoscience ", arguing that it gave " the illusion of science without any of its substance.

The illusion of depth and three dimensionality that accompanies certain types of pictures is described as penetrating the picture plane.

It is sometimes described as “ still emitting its own green glow ”, which would result in a rather complex optical illusion.

The beta movement is an optical illusion, first described by Max Wertheimer in 1912.

: There is the illusion that the New Germany left after the annexations can be reduced to a ' pastoral state '.

:" There is the illusion that the New Germany left after the annexations can be reduced to a ' pastoral state '.

Reports suggest that many walk buttons in some areas such as New York City are actually placebo buttons designed to give pedestrians an illusion of control while the crossing signal continues its operation as programmed.

It was in the impersonation of the great creations of Shakespeare ’ s genius that the varied beauty and grandeur of the acting of Kean were displayed in their highest form, although probably his most powerful character was Sir Giles Overreach in Philip Massinger ’ s A New Way to Pay Old Debts, the effect of his first performance of which was such that the pit rose en masse, and even the actors and actresses themselves were overcome by the terrific dramatic illusion.

On February 25, 1888, in Orange, New Jersey, Muybridge gave a lecture that may have included a demonstration of his zoopraxiscope, a device that projected sequential images drawn around the edge of a glass disc, producing the illusion of motion.

:" There is the illusion that the New Germany left after the annexations can be reduced to a ' pastoral state '.

Spider-Man took care of all those, but Ock counted on Mysterio to distract the vigilante with an illusion of New York literally torn up out of the ground.

However, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times wrote: “ The most distracting nonsense is the pop-up of familiar faces in so-called cameo roles, jarring the illusion .” Shana Alexander in Life Magazine stated: “ The pace was so stupefying that I felt not uplifted – but sandbagged !” And John Simon – later notorious as the frequently scathing theater and film critic of New York Magazine – wrote in the National Review: " God is unlucky in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

While Brainiac was initially eliminated as a suspect, he soon turned out to be the true culprit, creating the illusion even in his comatose state on New Genesis.

New volunteers arrived in Venezuela, though most, like those that preceded them, were in essence mercenaries probably under the illusion that there were fortunes to be made in Venezuela, which was hardly the case.

A ghost-like illusion of Kingdom, alongside Katarina and another deceased companion, Adric, appears in the Virgin New Adventures novel Timewyrm: Revelation by Paul Cornell.

:" There is the illusion that the New Germany left after the annexations can be reduced to a ' pastoral state '.

Disputing the claim by the designer Oscar de la Renta that Jacobs is a mere copyist, Guy Trebay, a critic for The New York Times, has written " unlike the many brand-name designers who promote the illusion that their output results from a single prodigious creativity, Mr. Jacobs makes no pretense that fashion emerges full blown from the head of one solitary genius ".