Suddenly the city has appeared like a mirage, its hills all bathed in a soft, golden light.
Simmons (interviewed, but excluded from the article) insisted plenitude was a mirage and prices were set to soar.
Between the album, videos, and Facebook, fans were fed a mirage of Lil Wayne.
Arguments that the Bank of England's sovereignty will be a mirage confuse sovereignty with complete autonomy.
Now, it turns out, the vision of an open-neck future was but a mirage.
The reality is that the stability we thought we saw in the Middle East was a mirage.
However, Yves-Thibault de Silguy, the European commissioner for monetary affairs, argues that Britain's monetary independence will prove a mirage.
But Yangon is also on the verge of a construction blitz, where its historic architecture could disappear like a mirage.
He noted, as he does with some frequency these days, that his original vision of a bipartisan Washington was a mirage.
From the deck of the boat, the two Perhentian islands - Besar and Kecil - appear as a mirage shrouded by clouds.
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Readers of both "The Book of Woe" and "Saving Normal" will learn why the goal of "precision medicine" in mental health is a mirage.
As it turned out, of course, the extension was a mirage.
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He went on to co-write hits including My Girl Has Gone, Going to a Go-Go and The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage.
Another reason for the world to keep its distance from this manipulative bunch is that the convergence of interests of consumers and producers is just a mirage.
It all seems like a mirage, and as such it will vanish as the land dries out, only to spring to life again in a few years or a decade's time.
Which was good, because the apparent opportunity was a mirage.
"The most difficult time in any transition is when we think that success is in sight, " she said, saying people should not be "lured by a mirage of success".
His failure to realise and explain sooner that the perfect scenario of his colleagues' imaginings is a mirage has turned out to be bad for him, and for Britain.
Opponents of arms control in the 1970s lumped the "radical" and "strategic" schools together and attacked any effort to stabilize military relations between the superpowers as a mirage or a deliberate deception.
Shouting out "open" or "closed" as a prescription for categorical success is at best a mirage and at worst a predicate for anticonsumer public policy, like the government's long antitrust crusade against Microsoft.
This is a bit of a mirage, however.
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Both the apparent miraculous benefits attributed to the drug and the apparent harm turn out both to have been a mirage, the product of the inadequate trials that were done before the drug was approved.
Even if domestic companies were able to improve in the absence of foreign competition, such improvements might prove a mirage -- witness the crumbling of America's auto industry during the Japanese onslaught of the 1970s.
Or, when we meet again at this Forum in one year or five years or ten, will we have seen the prospects for reform fade and remember this moment as just a mirage in the desert?
Then we have to be very careful that we are not lured by a mirage of success and that we are working to a genuine success for our people and for the friendship between our two countries.
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Absolute personal cyber-security is probably a mirage.
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