And I just think one of the reasons that we did the book was to sort of lay out that there was a difference -- not in many ways a great difference, but in some other areas a rather dramatic difference -- between a kind of illusional performance of the Reagan Presidency and realities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Acting President] Reference

I kept on going into life with the same illusional attitudes toward women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poverty and Love] Reference

You want to live by these illusional standards then don't complain over the costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Avoid Rape] Reference

Topics include player's thematic goals, pathing techniques, and illusional narrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [GDC Guide 09] Reference

How easily most people find that illusional Power? wildly and animalistically attractive !.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunday Discussion: So, What If The Dark Knight Wins Best Picture? « FirstShowing.net] Reference

In a mediated world, the opposite of real isn't phony or illusional or fictional -- it's optional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carter Phipps: The Good, the Bad, & the Mediated] Reference

I have no secrets in my privacy whatsoever, so in my case I have no privacy, only an illusional one.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Nonswimmer Trying to Swim in the Computer Sea] Reference

Was it because she'd never compromised herself in the desperate, always illusional quest for security?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

I DO agree that putting these pics on a phone was not smart given their illusional ‘celebrity’ status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Brown Denies Leaking Nude Photos Of Rihanna] Reference

Having raised two adults and had a hand in raising literally hundreds of children, I think this is illusional.    From Wordnik.com.  [All you Philosophy Majors Will Have to Find Something Else to Argue About Now « Whatever] Reference

If you ask the North Koreans, they almost have illusional perception that the universe is evolving around them.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2006] Reference

Within hours of being exposed, mountaineers can suffer hypothermia, which causes them to become strangely illusional.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2006] Reference

His apparent inability to cope with reality suggests that he would be in desperate straights without his illusional props.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lamb on the Northeast Atlantic « Climate Audit] Reference

And why in the world anybody would want to go back to that kind of fictional, illusional, harmful, negative budgeting is just beyond me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vp Remarks To National Newspaper Publishers Association] Reference

The subsequent years of civil war, which have killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people, have revealed the events at Firdos to be an illusional intermission between invasion and insurgency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story Pick: The toppling of Saddam's statue] Reference

But something else is now certain: today's reaction from Moscow, combined to the obvious paralysis on the part of Washington, Tel Aviv, London or Brussels, puts a sharp end to all these illusional beliefs, chanted on and on in Transatlantic and Euroasian conferences and seminars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgia crisis: The End of the Americanist illusion!] Reference

However, chasing after independence is illusional and for some people end in tragedies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dissident Voice] Reference

Usually, it's based on comparison of other's homes (an illusional comparison at best) and of course, what you see on TV.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biblical Recorder] Reference

Next, 2 curving steel pipes, 13m and 4. 5m in length are suspended at 1. 9m from the floor creating an illusional division.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dezeen] Reference

I tried to make them all meet in the novel. euronews: You once said 'East and West are illusional concepts we created in our minds'.    From Wordnik.com.  [euronews] Reference

She shows a lack of curiosity in the world beyond her core belief system and an illusional construct about how capable she is as a politician.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Political Ticker] Reference

I'm certain that people who reside in other areas of the county are also sick of always reading that they are now in your newspaper's illusional "Vail Valley.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

There, if anywhere, the illusional character of the world should have been hinted at, at least, had that theory been held by the authors of those accounts; but not a word to that effect is met with anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference

If I had known my support would require that almost every article you nice folks write would place almost every area in Eagle County in your illusional "Vail Valley," I may have rescinded my support (just kidding)!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

So, in illusional hopes of perhaps persuading my Governor into accepting the money for the sake of present and future unemployed Texans, I wrote my customary Letter to the Editor to my local (Austin) newspaper a couple of weeks ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moderate Voice] Reference

The story didn't identify where the wrestlers attended, other than to say they were middle-schoolers, but last time I checked, there is no middle school in Vail, which incidentally, is also not in your newspaper's illusional "Vail Valley.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

Sadly, the backwards and narrow-minded folks of Crowly Corners encourage and empower Miley to remain closeted, and the film ends with a musical number where the Dolly / Hannah alters entomb Miley and she is hay-ridden off into a illusional, hallucinatory future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boise Weekly - News, Opinion, Music, Events, Dining - Boise, Idaho] Reference

The bureaucracies, the political powers, and the corporate boards are quite content to see us citizens squabbling with each other over the minutae of who says what to whom, and the flush of momentary, illusional, victory when one of our posted points gets more thumbs up than down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

The point of this focus was to do my part, more or less, in assuring that alternative perspectives were available to those who go looking through the illusional sea of corporate websites, illusional because they are all owned by the same companies, or work under agreement or contract with those larger media firms, for information on the health care debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Indymedia] Reference

Wasting our precious, limited free time and resources, climbing over each other, seeking happiness and illusional contentment from buying must have booty, such as reduced christmas cards for next years madness, while our puppet masters carry on tightening their stranglehold undeterred, laughing at us, as we max out our/their credit cards, and have to return to their treadmill, to pay off our senseless self inflicted debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

But sometimes these matters are illusional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indiana and North Carolina: Where basketball and politics meet] Reference

Is that fairly common in this illusional world?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2006] Reference

"Different, kind of illusional drink.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference

Nader’s reaction was Obama is “illusional.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nader Calls on Obama to Challenge the White Establishment] Reference

Sounds more like illusions of what you expect to happen. yes i experience a lot of illusions in my mind. most of what happens in my world is an illusion and when it comes to the real world it is a rather scary place because it is not truly how i see it. when the real world is not the illusional place i can see in my imaginary world it makes me feel unstable and scared. but i have not always understood why i expect and make illusions. but apparently it is common with those who have autism / aspergers syndrome. i do believe it is strongly to do with that. spiritedsoul wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [[Help] Most Recent Posts] Reference