„Není Rusko bez cara.“ Romanovské jubileum v roce 1913 by Zbyněk Vydra

“…He thought he had the people‘s loyalty and support, and believed the society was prevalently conservative. It was a great illusion, for most of the population remained indifferent to the celebrations, and the idea of popular monarchy, so much favored by tsar, was not attractive to them. …”
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Le monopole de l’État français sur les jeux d’argent : de l’art d’extorquer des fonds aux plus démunis by Quentin Duroy, Jon D. Wisman

“…By expanding its range of lottery games over the past several years the French state has sold the illusion of a better future to economically disadvantaged players, who statistically are programed to lose. …”
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‘A Gorgon shadowed under Venus’ face’: Deceptive Beauty in Elizabethan Love Poems by Gaëlle Ginestet

“…Le Poète-Amant est victime d’un trompe-l’oeil inversé : la Dame qu’il aime lui donne l’illusion d’être une statue de Vénus, mais elle est bien un être vivant, malgré sa peau ivoirine. …”
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Literature and History: Study of Nigerian Indigenous Historical Novels by Lere Adeyemi

“…., the difference between truth and falsehood, reality and illusion) has long been debated by formalists and soclologlsts of literature. …”
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A Critique on the Book Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Rohollah Eslami, Elaheh Valizadeh

“…Theoretically, Althusser, on the one hand, determines the culture and ideological mechanisms of the state in socio-political developments and, on the other hand, promotes a kind of conspiracy illusion. The form of the book is desirable in terms of cover design and requires some writing corrections that are documented in the text.…”
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The Reversed Canvas: A Topos of Conflict Between Commercial and Aesthetic Values in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London by Richard Read

“…Though the topos makes us aware that the painting we are looking at has a frame (which we can see) and a verso (which we cannot), I shall show how, especially when depicted on the move in outdoor settings, the reversed canvas embedded in the illusion may alert us to “extended” or “secondary frames” well outside its enframed setting, such as the studio where the painting was made or the gallery it will hang in or the jury room from which it has been rejected. …”
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Ippolit Bogdanovich and Voltaire’s 'Épître à l’impératrice de Russie': Adapting Praise by Andrew Kahn

“…Writers bent on delivering a specific message understood that giving advice was not a straightforward matter, resorting to the arts of praise to create the illusion that everything suggested was already acceptable to the enlightened monarch. …”
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Quelle définition des « petits métiers » de la pêche ? by Nastassia Reyes, Serge Bahuchet, Jean-Dominique Wahiche

“…A single denomination for artisanal fishing gives the illusion of a homogenous category where extremely various fishing practices do exist. …”
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WozARd: A Wizard of Oz Method for Wearable Augmented Reality Interaction—A Pilot Study by Günter Alce, Mattias Wallergård, Klas Hermodsson

“…The basic idea behind WOZ is to create the illusion of a working system by having a human operator, performing some or all of the system’s functions. …”
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« Moments of Vision » : l'écriture de Thomas Hardy by Stéphanie Bernard

“…The equivocal quality of these works can also be found in the poems : dealing with the loss of his wife Emma, the writer hesitates between the hope to find her again and the recognition of the inevitable failure of his quest, between the illusion of a second chance and the harsh acknowledgment of facts. …”
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Kitsch and Avant-garde Television in Blackpool (Peter Bowker, BBC, 2004) by Nicole Cloarec

“…In a device reminiscent of Dennis Potter’s work, actors burst into song sequences and dance routines with their voice superimposed on the original, blurring the distinction between diegetic and non-diegetic origins and undermining all mimetic illusion. Reading Blackpool through the critical perspective of kitsch aesthetics allows one to pinpoint the ambivalence of its narrative and aesthetic choices. …”
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Prediction the Choice of Financing for Start-ups using Machine Learning Algorithms and Behavioral Biases by Naimeh Niazi, Hamideh Razavi

“…Following loss aversion, overconfidence, anchoring, and illusion of control biases were the most frequent among entrepreneurs.…”
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Critical lure source details are “correctly” attributed to both directly related and mediated lists by Alexa E. Tringali, Mark J. Huff

“…Studying lists of associatively related words often produces false recognition of non-studied critical lures (CL). This false memory illusion can be found both when word lists are directly related to a CL as in the DRM paradigm (e.g., water, bridge, run, for the CL river), and when words are indirectly related to CLs via non-presented mediators (e.g., faucet[water], London[bridge], jog[run], for the CL river). …”
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Financiarisation et classes sociales : introduction au dossier by Benjamin Lemoine, Quentin Ravelli

“…By dividing wages, generalizing indebtedness and creating the illusion that ownership has become universal, financialization has changed the relationship between social groups, forms of conflict, and political representation. …”
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Distance in Art or the Art of Distance: the Illusory Search for Depth and its Treatment in the First Landscape Representations by Fernando Linares, Isaac Mendoza

“…Due to its influence, it is worth highlighting Leonardo’s Trattato della Pintura as the first attempt to codify all these resources and devices ‘of illusion’, and whose validity has still remained valid in the representation of landscape to this day. …”
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Rivers and Lakes: Zhuangzi’s Critique of Just War and the Zhuangzian War Ethics and Peace Strategy by Ting-mien Lee

“…The belief that just war theory can help us identify a “just side” to morally condemn or legally restrain aggressors is a dangerous illusion. In practice, this approach fails to prevent wars and often exacerbates conflict. …”
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On Some Tendencies in Defense Policy of Germany by N. K. Meden

“…Here in Russia, one must take all this into account, as an idea of the low fighting capacity of the Bundeswehr, which was formed in the last years, is getting obsolete, and could became a dangerous illusion.…”
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Masques et mascarades dans Romola par George Eliot : la traversée des apparences by Stéphanie Richet

“…It proceeds of a trick or an alternate game of presence and absence.Identifying the mask so as to make it fall, revealing the invisible mask so as to turn it into a recognizable object, contribute to reestablishing the dramatic illusion and the awareness of the interplay between reality and fiction. …”
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Immagini migranti, immagini in-discriminanti Latenze e valenze nell’uso di foto e filmati in ambito migratorio by Alberto Baldi

“…The fixed, stentorian lapidary and three-dimensional image depicted in these portraits, seemed to provide the illusion to cross the threshold of overseas metropolis or of any other place on earth. …”
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LINGUOPRAGMATICS OF INTERACTION IN THE GENRE OF BUSINESS PRESENTATION by Natalya Yu. Sorokoletova

“…The linguistic-and-pragmatic analysis revealed that in the business presentations under study etiquette speech acts of greeting, appeal, gratitude, farewell create polyfunctional speech units (sometimes a sequence of them) producing the illusion of interaction (pseudo-dialogue): the addresser, as an agent of communication, attracts and captures the attention of the addressees and their interest to the topic of the presentation, monitors the process of communication and provides its positive tonality. …”
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