Word: illusionment
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Our only hope is to be ourselves and circulate the impression that we have put on the pretense of being gentlemen from sheer surfeit with the things of this world. After all, we owe it to coming generations of Dartmouth men to preserve the world's illusion concerning them. We...
Increasing, the interlopers march around him, present him with robes of office, shut Sally away. When the illusion has passed, the politician decides to give up his post, but the Prime Minister replies by making him Chancellor of the Exchequer. Success, the fruit of 20 years of diplomacy, has him...
"We send boys and girls to college not because that is the time in which they learn best, but because we ourselves have learned no better place to send them during that period of callow, unformed youth." With these words the conqueror of the Tennysonian Galahad continues his illusion-shattering...
The play is one of the type known as "problem plays", here representing the evils arising in a democratic republic when mass control passes into the hands of unscrupulous and private-minded individuals. Ably creating an illusion of reality as clever and unprincipled politicians, William Hale Thompson and John H...
Christian Scientists believe that pain is an illusion. If an ill person accepts that belief without doubt, then he will be cured.