illusory

However illusory the “missile gap” may have been, it is striking that a liberal icon so firmly stood for peace through strength.

Failing to make an omelet hardly proves that omelets are illusory if nobody has been willing to break some eggs along the way.

Even in healthier states experts warn that the improvement could be illusory.

The reality is that it wiped out a lot of illusory gains and replaced them with a lot of illusory losses.

Forcing himself to believe that he had been the victim of some kind of illusory perception, he vigorously restrained his feelings.

So these walls and appurtenances made an illusory sort of intrusion into the true vision on which he gazed.

Across the illusory positiveness of his world—immaterial, psychological, ghostly—an intermediate orb—a tangible shadow was thrown.

Upon closer examination of the little town we found that the first impression, gained from a distance, was illusory.

He argues briefly that the alternative systems are illusory because they refer to no 'external standard.'