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“Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness — these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized,” Ms. Tokarczuk writes.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2018

The failure of the marriage becomes a metaphor for the illusoriness of the American dream.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2013

Our task is to assert, first, then, the "otherness" of man, his difference from Nature, to point out the illusoriness of her phenomena for him, the derived reality and secondary value of her facts.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker

If it is claimed that this meaning is illusory, I eagerly desire to know on what solid ground its illusoriness can be established.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

For the fundamental presupposition which a man makes, is necessarily his criterion of knowledge, and it determines the truth or illusoriness of all other opinions whatsoever.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir