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  • s  based on or having the nature of an illusion
    Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy

  • Real power begets illusory power.
  • Her apparent dread of mortality and her obsession with dignified dying were at odds with Hindu concepts of reincarnation and death as a hoped-for release from maya, the illusory .
  • The Census Bureau itself notes that the reported 11% increase in June home sales might be illusory.
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  • The Fame Game
    Your illusory fifteen minutes of fame.
    June 10, 2013 - Psychology Today
  • Culinary Mindfulness And Windowfarms: 5 Ways To Increase Well-Being
    When a food company sells something that nails the psychology of well-being instead of just seducing customers with the illusory satisfactions of ever cheaper access to more sugar, fat, or salt, they deserve some attention. Windowfarms, a Brooklyn-based start-up I’ve followed ever since hearing crackerjack founder Britta Riley give a 2011 TEDx talk about the project, is such a company. So, if ...
    June 9, 2013 - Forbes

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