(1) Another experiment (2) was designed to determine if illusional cues within the phase-shifted profiles aided phase discrimination.
(2) Crude, barefaced, garish, gimmicky - yet joyous and exuberant like a funfair or a day at the seaside - at first glance, the art of Tim Noble and Sue Webster consists merely of cheap thrills and end-of-pier illusionism.
(3) He shows up trends to "moral remote control" of the doctor, to a deliberately practised illusionment, a systematically engineered demounting of decisions based on moral constraints--such demounting being promoted both in the doctor's mind and in actual practice--and to eliminating emotional obstacles officially construed as "interfering" with a strictly objectified doctor-patient relationship.
(4) It considerably reduced the frequency and degree of hallucinative--illusional disturbances and simultaneously markedly accelerated the restoration of the disturbed consciousness.
(5) The authors distinguish 3 types of oneiroid states differing in the depth of clouded consciousness: 1) oneiroid states, the main content of which consisted of illusional and delusional experiences; 2) oneiroid states with prevalent dream-like imaginations; 3) oneiroid states developing with syndromes of substupor or catatonia excitation where due to a deep change of consciousness there were signs of resignation from the environment, dream-like and fantasticalhallucinatory components with a more vivid colouring.
Illusionist
Definition:
(n.) One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was more magic on ITV at 9.10pm with The Illusionists, but it was unable to pull an overnights rabbit out of the hat, with just under 2 million viewers, an 8.5% share.
(2) Not only did this life-affirming piece of mischief make the perfect counterpoint to the self-harming entrepreneurial initiative of the emaciated illusionist, it also enabled a TV audience of millions to get a taste of music they might not otherwise have heard, as Jus' a Rascal was beamed around the world as the unofficial soundtrack to the much sought after news footage of the end of Blaine's 44-day fast.
(3) When Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble visited Britain in 1956, he was stunned by its anti-illusionistic epics.
(4) TV illusionist Derren Brown has often used his act to denounce paranormal practices.
(5) TV illusionist Derren Brown said: "It's important people don't think that a test is a way of debunking or disproving.
(6) He wrote: "Like the TV illusionist, he wants you to believe something unbelievable.
(7) He and the illusionist David Blaine have also been best friends for years (what does he think about Blaine's current work?
(8) Like any illusionist worth his salt he is wary of explaining this too closely: "My work is really either things that bother me or things that I like," he says at one point.
(9) Jonathan Ross (the floppy-haired one) hosts as amateur illusionists try to baffle the duo in order to win a support slot on their Vegas show.
(10) Classical temples in ancient Greece show two deterministic illusionistic principles of architecture, which govern their functional design: geometric proportionalism and a set of illusion-strengthening rules in the proportionalism's "stochastic margin".
(11) Then there's a musical director, an aerial choreographer, a puppet designer and an illusionist."
(12) Son of the famous illusionist David Berglas, Marvin entertains VIPs and sponsors on match days and even plays in the Gunners' celebrity supporters team.
(13) The third episode of the drama, starring Simon Baker as a detective who uses illusionist's tricks to get witnesses and suspects to reveal information about crimes, was Five's most watched show of the night with a 13% share of the audience.