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His whole career seems faintly — perhaps illusorily — present in this grim but starkly beautiful trek, kind of shimmering on the horizon like a mirage.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2011

He attacked the fascinating, but of course demonstrably insolvable, problem of painting sunlight, not illusorily, as Fortuny had done by relying on contrasts of light and dark correspondent in scale, but positively and realistically.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)

It is not for me, but for others,—namely, the Provost and the Secretaries of Legation,—to decide how far I have treated a true history illusorily.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich

That in which this excellent knowledge produces knowledge and effects sustentation thereof, that is pure illusion, as known and sustained, therefore by the Supreme Lord duality is not illusorily imagined.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

This kriyâs'akti of the aha@mkâra is illusorily imposed upon the self, and as a result of that the self appears to be an active agent in knowing and willing.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath