Copperfield bought most of the pieces himself and had the good sense not to overdo the illusion.
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"We value not the absence of opinion but the illusion of the absence of opinion, " said Daniel Okrent, the former public editor of The New York Times, who called it a conundrum for the modern press.
Nolan created a world in which other superheroes do not exist, where the illusion of realism is important and keeps things grounded in ways that do not involve aliens and magic.
If a free market illusion voluntarily agreed to from the bottom up is so desperately feared, then the protectors of the State-sanctioned illusion must not have the most benevolent of motives in store for us plebeians.
The methods of the past may have been flawed, but the idealism of the past was not an illusion.
The ancient battle, Gandalf believes, is not over, but temporarily dormant, like the illusion of peace between World War I (in which Tolkien served) and World War II (during which the Lord of the Rings was written).
To others, however, the increasingly frantic efforts to avoid scrutiny of the carefully constructed story that the economy is healing and not teetering on the brink of disaster signals that the illusion is nearing collapse.
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They watched their own parents suffer during the Depression, they went overseas for years on end when our nation asked them to save the world, and when they came home, to the prosperity of the Eisenhower years, they crossed their fingers and hoped the good times were not an illusion.
Enough of the SNP - the politics of illusion are not for us.
Our attention to video games in the cases of some shootings but not others is what psychologists call confirmation bias, and it creates the illusion of a correlation where there is none.
Here is an example of the perverted moral reasoning that results from the left's illusion of moral authority: For Walsh, it is not as bad for liberals to use the coercive power of the administrative state to subvert democracy as it is for conservatives to vote.
President Obama can try to promote the illusion that the Muslim Brotherhood does not really intend to act on these ambitions.
Not only will trimming threatening branches give the yard an illusion of looking larger, it will help thwart damage to the roof or to power lines.
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Not only does the sagging, unstable dollar create the nominal illusion of bank health, that the dollar remains historically weak means that limited capital necessary to fund company and job creation is still locked up in the houses on which dead-banks walking teeter.
We thought deeply (okay, and argued, too) about the weight of great expectations, the insidious lie of "having it all, " and the illusion of unlimited options on women who had not yet learned to deal with them.
The oil money creates an illusion of development, but not jobs.
In Washington, Clintonistas dream about the Bush presidency being a mere interregnum between Bill and Hillary, but out in the states it is not so much an interregnum as an optical illusion.
Western friends of reform in Russia should be under no illusion: The rationale for such an arrangement is not that it will ultimately produce the transformation of political and economic affairs in the former Soviet Union only on a more gradual, less tumultuous pace than originally envisioned by Yeltsin and his first administration led by Yegor Gaidar.
Western friends of reform in Russia should be under no illusion: The rationale for such an arrangement is not that it will ultimately produce the transformation of political and economic affairs in the former Soviet Union -- only on a more gradual, less tumultuous pace than originally envisioned by Yeltsin and his first administration led by Yegor Gaidar.
By opposing disclosure of the risks to investors personal trading by portfolio managers poses, as well as disclosure of portfolio manager personal trading records and, when all else fails, invoking the attorney-client privilege to prevent investors from learning of illegal personal trading, the mutual fund industry has been able to maintain the illusion that such trading is rare and investors are not being harmed.
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The tiny Massachusetts island is compact enough so that visitors do not need a car and most arrive without one, yet it creates the illusion of being much bigger since so much is preserved as protected natural space.
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The biological basis for this complementary color effect is not well understood, nor is the depth of shadow, which is also an illusion.
His youth will lull activists into the illusion of change, the analogy goes, but he will not force them out of their ideological comfort-zone.
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May stressed the new "effect" was not a hologram, calling it "an optical illusion of sorts".
Issuers do not report these actual credit limits to the credit bureaus because they want to maintain the illusion that their cards provide unlimited spending, even though they make it clear on disclosures that NPSL does not mean unlimited spending.
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Cash is tucked in or taken out from a shoebox under the counter so the cash register is not even touched except for one or two transactions to create an illusion of activity.
Obama is not "under any great illusion" that Bush will support a second economic stimulus plan, the aide said.
That is when we will begin to manage not only the security risk and the compliance risk, but the true risk that comes from believing the illusion of control.
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